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I don't think I am allowed to post the sales persons name on this forum. But if you ask a quote thru edmunds, they will send you one right away. My first quote for a 06 TL auto with Nav. was $30,389 (includes destination), but I wrote back and ask for an out the door price that includes all TTL. They wrote back with $33,239. They are pretty straight forward, I just picked my up yesterday afternoon. Yesterday, they still have pretty much all the colors.
Good luck!
Hey, Congrats on your new car. What color combination did you end up with? Can you send the breakdown of your OTD price of $33,239? In other words, car price? sales tax? registration? etc or any detailed breakdown would be appreciated.
Did you buy from Santa Monica? Are they still offering the special financing? Just wondering.
Great car that I am hoping to buy.
car $30,950
tax 928
tags 71
Drive away $31,946 Picked up the car yesterday.
Was a major battle with the dealer in Cary, NC to negotiate the price whit a lot of hardball on both sides.
I confirmed the price & that the car was in-stock three times with the internet sales guy.
Then when I went to pickup the car I get the big O-BTW its not in stock so you need to pay an additional $600 to have it shipped from another dealer.
Walked out & had a phone call on my answering machine that it was all a mistake & they would honor the original deal.
Again, good job with Leith. Enjoy your TL.
I live in Raleigh & have a 2004 BMW 330 convert but wound up with Performance BMW in Durham for that one. Much better price the Leith & also got factory delivery with BMW driving school down in Spartanburg SC.
Could not get Leith to move much on it & they never talked about the driving school.
I brought the white / black combo.
06 TL with nav. = 30389.00
Doc. Fee = 45.00
CA Tax = 2510.81
DMV e-filing = 28.00
license = 197.00
Registration/Transfer = 61.00
Tire fees = 8.75
OTD price = 33239.56
I am not sure if they still have the special financing but that should be very easy to find out. Good Luck!
I anticipate driving no more than 10k miles a year, and may have the car 4-5 years. Although at re-sale, I think these are nice to have, don't I have some other warranty options down the road, if I am interested?
Thank you!
Thanks
Paid $31,800 with (with $1,000 dealer cash) so 32,800 MSRP was $35,940
I know I could have done better but was tired of the process.
Also if the dealer worked in the $1,000 dealer cash to cut your price he cant give you the rate too.
Deal is good in NC, I just picked up a TL with no down 60 months @ 4.9%
Try going into the Edmunds Acura car pricing thing put in your zip code click on incentives & see what comes up.
new 06 tl auto with nav silver/quartz including destination for $31,800. + Added Acura wired ipod adapter $401, plus mud flaps and locks for $137. Also feel I might have done better if waited until the end of Oct which is end of the month and quarter but still VERY happy for $36K car plus list of $499 ipod and $200 list for lock and flaps installed.
Sounds like you're close to getting your new ride. I'm scheduled to pick up my new TL w/nav next week also. What dealership did you end up going to? The dealerships in NY have all told me that the 2.9% financing is no longer being offered, but the $1,000 dealer cash incentive is still out there until 10/31/06. This has been confirmed by edmunds.com.
I overpaid probably but I really wanted this particular rare combination of colors and features (manual trans. and Navi).
I could have gotten this car in late June for 32,600 from Vandergriff Acura. There is an interesting saga to this. Read the next post for my reprinted letter to the General Manager of David McDavid Acura in Plano, TX. It is a cautionary tale.
Dear XXXXX:
I am writing you to make a complaint about an experience I had with your sales staff.
In June I took a test drive with your salesman, XXXX. I no longer have his card and do not remember his last name. He was professional and friendly and informative at the time.
In late June I also test drove a 2006 TL at Mac Churchill Acura in Fort Worth, TX. This car had the features and colors I wanted, (Black ext./Parchment int. 6 speed MT with Navigation) and I made them an offer. We were unable to agree to a price, and I decided that I probably would not get the best deal on a car with them.
I asked both XXXXX at David McDavid Acura and XXXX at Vandergriff Acura to give me a quote on a car with these specific features and colors. Vandergriff Acura responded within a couple of hours with a decent quote and told me they could acquire the car (presumably from Mac Churchill Acura.) I never heard back from XXXX at McDavid Acura. I agreed to Vandergriff's price and we arranged for me to come down the next morning and give a deposit and have them acquire the car.
On my way over to Vandergriff Acura the next morning, XXXX the salesman at your dealership (McDavid Acura) called me and left a message saying that they "had my car" and asked me to "come take a look at it". When I got to Vandergriff Acura , we found out that David McDavid Acura had called MacChurchill Acura and and lied to them, telling them that they had sold the car (even though I had not given McDavid Acura a deposit nor had we discussed or agreed on a price).
XXXX or his sales manager had acquired the car from MacChurchill Acura under false pretenses, I suppose in order to force me to come down to your dealership in person, hat in hand, and deal with them on their terms and at their mercy.
Your dealership would not release the vehicle to Vandergriff Acura, and as of today, it still sits on your lot since I refused to deal with your staff under these circumstances.
I consider the behavior of your sales staff in this instance to be manipulative, unethical, and representative of the tactics that give car dealerships a bad name. I did a lot of research both in test drives of many vehicles and internet research before I decided on this car. The tactics used by the David McDavid sales staff this summer have caused me a great deal of trauma, inconvenience, and money, in what I had hoped would be one of the better experiences of my life: getting a really terrific car.
I spoke yesterday to your General Sales Manager XXXX and told him about this incident. Apparently this car has not sold and I made him an offer of $30k, including all fees except TTL. Given what I have experienced with your staff this summer, I would not feel good about buying this car from you at any higher price. I am continuing to look elsewhere for a car in the meantime.
XXXX, who referred me to you, assured me of your personal integrity and encouraged me to contact you about this matter. I was unable to reach you in person by phone, and I wanted to write you and let you know what happened at your dealership, and also let you know my feelings on the matter.
Thanks for your time and attention.
Sincerely,
XXXX
(David McDavid Acura, to their credit, released the car to Vandergriff Acura this past Wednesday at Vandergriff's, and my, request. I will also say that David McDavid staff was friendly and courteous in their dealings with me on the phone and in person. However, after that above described incident, I would never deal with them again. The General Manager to whom I sent this letter never responded to the above letter, which is why I requested Vandergriff Acura to make another request to trade for this car.)
(I also had been posting about what I was doing on this board during my search last June. I suggest that all of you be careful about what you say here because I believe that many car salesmen read this board to find out what their prospects are up to. I had told the original salesman at David McDavid Acura that I read and posted to the Edmunds board. A dumb mistake, I realize in hindsight.)
By the way, I love my new car. And I recommend Vandergriff Acura to anyone living in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. They are relatively honest and straightforward and easy to deal with.
agreed to 32K before TTL with HIllside ACura, probably could have gotten same price prior to Sept & the 2.9% , oh well the pice I think is reasonable for our area....im further into suffolk so didnt want to deal with NJ< WEstchester or CT.....got blk.blk w nav/auto for 32K which is still about 800 below invoice so im not too disappointed. the car is actually a gift for my fathers 6oth anyway, not for me, so hopefully Ill have good karme in the end
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Available only to residents of: AK, AL, CA, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, MD, MT, NC, OR, SC, VA, WA, WV, WY and the District of Columbia* Special AHFC A.P.R. financing available on all new 2006 TL models. 2.9% APR financing for 24-36 months, 4.9% APR financing for 37-60 months available to customers who qualify for the AHFC Super Preferred credit tier. Example for 2006 TL V6 5-Speed Automatic Transmission (Model UA6626JW): 2.9% for 36 months financing at $29.04 a month for every $1,000.00 financed. Dealers set actual vehicle sales prices. See participating dealers for details. For well qualified buyers. Not all buyers may qualify. Higher rates apply for buyers with lower credit ratings.
Taxes (6.25%) $1,978
Fees and Doc. Fees $272
Total OTD $33,900
This is a white diamond pearl/ parchment interior, automatic w/ navigation system. I will pick it up in Beaumont, Tx (Classic Acura) within the next week(in production now).The price does include a window tint but I am not sure about the wheel locks, tray, and splash guards, hopefully it will come on there but I will be happy either way. Would you consider this a good price?
After reading this board for over a month, I bought my TL (08/18) from PLANET ACURA in Downey.
I exchanged correspondence with the Internet Sales person and negotiated a price of 30,665.
The car is an '06 TL pearl white / parchment / navi, auto. The car had 2.1 miles on it when I picked it up. Production date of 08/06. Drove up from San Diego and picked it up and drove back down. The dealer was EXTREMELY friendly and very accommodating.
Added the trunk tray and wheel locks minus the mud guards ( which I bought online from acurapartspeople.com for about 60 bucks and installed myself).
30,665 for the car
added 100k warranty
and lojack -600 bucks.
out the door was just slightly over 35k ( 7.75% tax in ca.)
I would reccomend PLANET ACURA to anyone. BTW, over the phone, Tustin was VERY rude even after I expressed my intention to immediately purchase.
I called planet, they "unwrapped" the car, detailed it and stayed late on a friday evening to wait for us to arrive.
Big Kudos!
RND
Grinded them like hell but they finally caved in.
sale price was 30181 plus fees = 33,000
that should be the new bench mark for those looking for a TL with Navi in Los Angeles.
What color combo did you get?
Thanks
i got this quote from a dealer in PA
car registration in PA
base: 31100
sales tax(6%): 1866
title, transfer : 63.50
temporary plates: 10.00
tire tax: 5.00
documentary fee: 55.00
total: 33119.50
Car Registration in NJ
base: 31100
sales tax(7%): 2177
title, transfer(4yrs) : 400
temporary plates: 10.00
tire tax: 5.00
documentary fee: 55.00
total: 33747.50
do u think this is a good deal?
Thank you so much.
You guys are making car buying experience so much easier.
Another dealer is trying to get me to buy a demo, any thoughts on how much off a demo with 3800 miles should be reduced?
Thanks in advance!
The only question I have now is should I get the white, silver or carbon bronze (my three choices). :shades:
I wonder why the navi option on base TL went up to $2.5K ?
edit- I forgot the backup camera in addition to NavTraffic.
My wife saw a Blue/Parchment TL and got even more excited when she saw it was a manual - at the York dealership. I knew the pricing, so I offered them 33.5K just to lock it up, no questions or "fluff talk" from the salesman. I'm sure this price appears completely ridiculous to folks in this forum, but remember - we have already saved thousands by just keeping an old car going a year longer.
THEY TURNED IT DOWN! We were shocked! We split, my wife was dejected and I just told her that I'd hunt around and give it over to internet sales - we would get a far better price but probably not the exact car she loved. I told her that they're trying to get rid of their "lot queens" down in Baltimore or elsewhere. She agreed.
Baltimore was hungry! At one dealership I got the definite feel that they were really trying to to dump one car in particular - it looked really "sunburned" like it sat on the lot all season. They started at 31k with no fees. I said no - didn't like it. They started going lower and I said it wouldn't help, I just didn't like the car.
We got to Frankel Acura on the north side and found a price of 31k, (really 31.8 because of mumbo-jumbo fees that everyone knows don't really exist) and the salesman would actually try to find the car my wife wanted. I warned him that we were from PA, so don't deface the front bumper (we don't have front plates in PA) and don't put that stupid dealer logo on the back either. Also save the sticker price and brochure (we like to have this when we sell the car someday to a college student or such - they seem to like that) He was very accommodating - putting up with my idiosyncratic behavior. We gave him the order of preference on color the only hard deck item was that it had to be manual. Couple days went by and he found a blue/parchment TL! We went down and picked up the car and while waiting I casually glanced at the sticker price to see where the car originally came from....
It was the exact same car that was on the York PA lot!
*Available only to residents of: AK, AL, CA, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, MD, MT, NC, OR, SC, VA, WA, WV, WY and the District of Columbia* Special AHFC A.P.R. financing available on all new 2006 TL models. 2.9% APR financing for 24-36 months, 4.9% APR financing for 37-60 months available to customers who qualify for the AHFC Super Preferred credit tier. Example for 2006 TL V6 5-Speed Automatic Transmission (Model UA6626JW): 2.9% for 36 months financing at $29.04 a month for every $1,000.00 financed. Dealers set actual vehicle sales prices. See participating dealers for details. For well qualified buyers. Not all buyers may qualify. Higher rates apply for buyers with lower credit ratings.
Offer valid for through October 2, 2006, on new and unregistered 2006 TL Models and only on approved credit by Honda Financial Services through participating dealers. Honda Financial Services' standard credit criteria apply. Example for 2006 TL V6 5-Speed Automatic Transmission (Model UA6626JW): 2.9% for 36 months financing at $29.04 a month for every $1,000.00 financed. See dealer for details. Dealers set actual prices. Limited time only.
What did you end up doing? I'm up in Mpls./St. Paul area, and am looking at lease vs. buy right now on a TL w/ Navi. Initial price for buy w/ $1000 cash back is $32679... not so hot. The lease deal is the 24 month that they are doing. For 15k miles/year, they want, $3750 down (includes all fees, tax, licensing, first month payment, etc.) and then $478/month. I might be interested in driving to Chicago area if I can get a better deal.
30181
2493.69
45.00
271.00
8.75
33000.00 total otd
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I faxed 9 dealerships and after 3 days had it down to 2 that continued to underbid one another. The dealership I dealt with had/has just under 100 '06 units in stock so they're motivated. My out the door price (including destination,taxes,tags,transfer fees) would have been $32,500, but we also traded in a '94 Volvo (110,000 miles, headliner falling off,needs rear main seal, needs rack and pinion, and suffers from mystery stall) which brought our final line on the check to $31,400.
The Invoice on the car, with destination, was 32,875 and MSRP was $35,995.
I think you are right. I've seen/heard of them checking the three biggest credit score companies and coming at you with the lowest of the three. I'd just bring in your own run on yourself and hold your ground. Other thing you can do is go to your own bank/credit union and get the loan through them. Then you can tell them you don't need their financing. Or, you can do what I'm going to do. Get the check from my bank, and then use it as an additional bargaining tool: they like to see you have the money ready to go, but then if they can beat the rate you got at the bank, then you can use that to your advantage!! Where are you, and what interest rate did they offer you with your 685 score?