Dealer Holdback

beach_bum1943

Does BMW currently do dealer holdback on their new cars? It appears they did until this year. Is that the case? If so, then there's not much negotiable under invoice. I plan to order a car so maybe the savings of insurance, interest, lot costs, etc may be motivation for the dealer, but is there anything else?

kyfdx

beach_bum1943 said:

Does anybody read these questions or just the headlines? I should have put the question in the headline. My bad.

BMW has never had holdback. Although, they may have other programs for their dealers to get payments on the back end.

Even invoice isn't a "real" number, that actually portrays the dealer's actual cost.

All that matters is the lowest price you can achieve. You can spend a lot of time trying to ascertain what a dealer has in a car, and what a fair profit might be, but you'll never actually know. Just try to get the lowest price you can. Shopping multiple dealers is your best bet.

Michaell

beach_bum1943 said:

Does BMW currently do dealer holdback on their new cars? It appears they did until this year. Is that the case? If so, then there's not much negotiable under invoice. I plan to order a car so maybe the savings of insurance, interest, lot costs, etc may be motivation for the dealer, but is there anything else?

We have this link, but it's 6 years old:
https://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/dealer-holdback/

beach_bum1943

A 6 year old link does NOT answer a question about what is happening today!

beach_bum1943

Does anybody read these questions or just the headlines? I should have put the question in the headline. My bad.