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I don't know why you would want a "chip" to boost your performance?? And, I would assume it might void your warranty.You are in Real Estate, so you should not be interested in hopping up your vehicle, as I assume you take customers to and from proospective home sites?
Be happy with whayt you have..You purchased a reliable vehice that should give you many trouble-free miles.
I ran a Carfax and it showed "Fleet Registration Reported", only one owner, same state (CA), average of 22K miles/year. Should this fact alone (fleet registration) raise a red flag? Will it make more difficult to sell this car in the future?
Btw, I think the $16k out of the door is a good deal. Is it so?
Thanks all for the inputs,
LP
Would it alleviate the fact? I mean, in general, how much more difficult it is to sell a car when the potential buyer knows it has been registered to a company in the past? I can certainly keep a copy of the old title to show prospective buyers that it didn't belong to a rental company if that helps.
REAR CARGO CONVENIENCE PKG
INTERIOR CARGO MANAGEMENT SYS
RETRACTABLE CARGO COVER
POWER MOONROOF WITH SHADE
ROOF RACK WITH CROSSBARS
MINI-OH CONSOLE W/BIN & MAP LIGHTS
FULL SIZE SPARE WHEEL/TIRE
TRAILER TOWING, CLASS II
DYNAMIC SIDE IMPACT PACKAGE
SAFETY CANOPY & SIDE AIR BAGS
PREMIUM LEATHER TRIM (BLACK)
TOTAL MSRP $27,415.00
EMPLOYEE PRICE $24,511.79
CASH BACK ($1,000.00)
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MERCURY FAMILY PRICE $23,511.79*
Sorry for the ALL CAPS nortsr1. Can I do better than this Merc Family Price or is this price non negotiable? They also mention an "extra $1000 in clearance cash" but I think that is the same cash back incentive listed above.
If anyone has had experience with buying a Mariner lately please let me know about it and why you choose Mariner over the Escape and Tribute.
Also is the rear parking sensor something that can be added later or is it factory installed only?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
I know I wouldn't buy a vehicle now without substantial discounts, employee pricing or not. Ford X-Plan is what I used to buy my '01 Escape. Discounting minor price increases over the last few years, I can still get at or near (with rebates/discounts) the same type of Escape for rougly the same price as I paid 4 years ago. We'll see what they do over the next few weeks.
Thanks Nick
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P.D In 2002 bought a Mercedes Benz C230 Sportcoupe for $50.000,oo in USA the same car was selling for $30.000,oo
2005 S 2wd........Package 2, tow pack & side airbags... MSRP is $25,945. invoice around 24,400 What should I shoot for with the $3500 rebate???????? Any advice would be appeciated............Thanks.........
Well while I'm here, before I even get to that point, I'm dealing with a dealership that will give me $400 under invoice plus $2250 in customer and dealer cash plus $500 for financing, which the dealer says I can pay off IMMEDIATELY, without penalty to him. This is for a fairly well equipped '06 Tribute S 4WD. Any good?
Thanks in advance
Mercury Mariner
Nissan Murano
Toyota Highlander
Toyota RAV4 (new 2006 w/ V6)
Subaru Outback Turbo with auto
Subaru Forrester Turbo with auto
I welcome your experience with any of these vehicles as well as with the Colorado Springs dealers of the same.
Thanks much
Bob
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It had the safety package, full size spare, and I had them add the cargo cover. MSRP was $24000 before ttl. I paid off the loan as soon as Ford's 1st payment was done, so the grand total was $18,207.19 before ttl, $20,321.61 total.
Yeah, I live in a high-tax state.
Hamsterman
I really don't think anyone would risk their job to get you the employee discount..
regards,
kyfdx
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If the dealer is NOT including the Ford Credit $1000 'match', then he's probably only asking Invoice (there are regional ad fees), which is good. Be sure to ask for the invoice before signing anything.
Hamsterman
Invoice price $24,495.
Price paid with rebates was $20,545.
We were offered an additional $500 rebate for financing with Mazda Credit, but declined as it was linked to a 9.5%/48 interest rate. We financed through a local bank instead and saved almost 3.0%.
I had an opposite experience on the same day at Sussman Acura. I just want to buy an american car as a support of american car industry, but both GMC and Ford kicked me away. I have a 02 Honda, which is trouble free for the past 4 years. Maybe I should consider a second one.
Also has 6 of the lot hound 05 mazda 3 hatchbacks with no advert but probably flexible.
Saw 3 05 mazda Tribute AWD around 26-27k msrp advertised (on the windows) for 7k off list.
--jjf
Like the mariner overall. The cup holders (front and back) are useless. Engine noise and tranmission is loud coming from a Honda Accord. Tires seem loud - maybe an upgrade later. Needs some tweaking and refinement. Looks very stylish which is a factor for my wife. My Sirius is on order. Does anyone know where they put the antenna and how the display looks. The stereo sounds good but looks cheesy - so not expecting much of a display.
Bob
I believe the Mariner may be the one of the three that costs less, but why?
Thanks
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Honda CR-V was beginning to falter, (after 171,000 miles) so wife and I embarked on a search for a replacement. Used vehicle pricing + higher interest rates made new vehicles more appealing, even accounting for the inevitable depreciation slapdown.
We cross-shopped the 2006 Highlander (4 cylinder, stripper models) which have a choice of $2000 incentive to customer OR 0.0% or 1.9% interest rates (48 and 60 months, respectively). Best quoted price out of 2 Toyota dealers in the immediate Orlando area was $23,789. After tax, tag, and title, we were looking at $26,138, which was a richer price than Mami and I wished to pay. Tales from the Highlander forums suggested $22,500 was our target price to pay for such a vehicle, but we have to finance, so we could not take advantage or the $2000 rebate. Plus, the arithmetic said the interest rate saved us more than $2,000 over 5 years than the best possible non-Toyota rate available (I used 5.99% as my comparison, and there is no guarantee we could have obtained that low a rate anyway).
Long story short, there didn’t seem to be much wiggle room to get this car down to the $22,500 neighborhood. Besides the two dealers we visited, I also made e-mail inquiries to a third, relayed I would be a buyer at that price, and even selected a white Highlander out of that dealers stock and referenced it in my e-mail. I never heard back from them. The salesperson at Courtesy Toyota who provided the written offer at $23,789 was unfailingly courteous (seems appropriate) each time we conversed by phone, but never gave the slightest indication that there was any more room to dicker-he just wanted to know if I was going to come in soon to complete the transaction.
From these experiences I concluded that perhaps we really had touched bottom on Highlander pricing despite anecdotal evidence of lower pricing in other markets. It was time to drive an Escape.
Visited Greenway Ford in Orlando, closest one to my work and home, and took home a 2007 XLT FWD, (4 cylinder engine) for an extended test drive that night. My wife is the primary driver of this vehicle, so I wanted her to help decide. She reported it felt a bit more truck-like than the CR-V and the Highlander, which is understandable, since there are both car-based sport cutes, but she thought she could probably live with it. She did not like the leather guts; in hot, sticky, Florida, sticking to the seats is a valid concern. In the meantime, my Friday was spent poring over Edmunds and KBB to educate myself, and getting internet quotes from other dealers. Got a written offer from a competing Ford dealer to sell me a similarly equipped Escape for $23,500 The 2007 Escape is still well-incentivized with plenty of cash rebates or attractive rates from Ford Credit. Most offers expire October 2, 2006, so hurry if you are thinking about this one. (Or wait, for the next big marketing blitz) We returned that car Saturday and asked for the same one with cloth seats. There was one at a different dealership, and so we bought it sight unseen within 2 hours. The deal looked like this:
2007 Escape XLT FWD with auto trans. The 2.3L I4 engine was a requirement of my fuel-miser wife, who is not an old lady but does accelerate like one. One of her shopping stipulations going in was that any Honda replacement we would buy had to get mileage as good as or better than the out-going CR-V at 24mpg in suburban driving.
MSRP on the base car so equipped was $22,280. The two options we wanted, moonroof (option 43M) and the audiophile CD system (option 588) add $1,180 to that cost, but Ford throws you the Sun and Sound discount of $585 if you get those two options in combination, so its like getting both options for the price of the stereo alone. The car we were dealing on also had the Rear Cargo Convenience Group (option 21R) for $150. Adding it all up the MSRP was $23,665. Greenway offered to move the car at $23,000. I countered with $22,500, and sales manager agreed. Then I pulled out the $500 College Graduate certificate I had downloaded from the Ford site, and watched the salesman squirm. They agreed it is a valid discount, and I had printed out my class schedule as per the requirement. So the final purchase price was $22,000, which is $888 below Edmunds TMV price and $296 below Edmunds invoice. I think we did alright at least I don’t feel it was a one-sided victory for the dealer as in my last several purchases. Only then did we mention that would like an appraisal on the Honda. I guess as a measure of how unwelcome we were at that point, they offer us three hundred dollars for it, which I interpret as a good sign that we beat the stuffing out of their potential profit before holdback So we took the Honda to Carmax in Orlando; they will buy it Monday night for $2,000, which we will use to lower the amount we have to finance. Now as long as Ford Motor Credit doesn’t vomit me back up, and my so-far unseen purchase is what I expect, my work here is complete.
Hope others find this novella helpful had to get if off my chest. Can now focus on football.
MSRP was $22,515, invoice was 21,089. Paid $20995 - $3000 rebate - $1000 MAC finance bonus cash for a net price of just $16995. Added cruise control (not available from the factory on "i" manual transmissions) for $300.
Financed the minimum required to get the $1000 bonus ($7k) and will pay off as a lump sum when first payment is due (interest rate with MAC is much higher than prime...about 9.8%, something around 6-6.5% should be available if you need to finance).
Very happy with the vehicle and with the dealership!
Also cross-shopped the 2007 Escape XLS AWD. Found one that was base with alloy wheels (MSRP $22090, invoice $20876) and had negotiated a price of $20,800 - $2000 Ford cash for a net price of $18,800. Went with the Mazda as they gave me a much better price on my trade-in, plus the Mazda had 16" alloys with wider tires, tinted glass, firmer suspension tuning, and 4year/50k mile warranty...all with a lower net price due to higher rebates (but it is a "leftover").
For those who are shopping any of these models there is no reason you should pay higher than invoice, the 2006 and 2007 are "lame ducks"...the redesigned 2008 will come out in early spring 2007 so push hard for a deal.
I used quotes from Edmunds and from Carsdirect.com to "cut to the chase" .
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As for this configuration, I am convinced it it the best balanced and best handling Tribute available. It is amazingly competent at speed, and as for the AWD, it is excellent. So with snow getting close, I might decide it is still the best choice all the way around, and choose to hang on to it; falling gas prices also help. I doubt I'll ever break 30 mpg on the highway, running at 75 mph, but 28 is not too bad.
In my zip the target price is $17,077... this is about $375 over invoice (ie base invoice + destination fee + $375) minus $3k in rebates. I would offer $16,700 which is true invoice - rebates if they have the exact car you want in stock, they still make $$ on the holdback...see my post above for the deal I had worked out.
It's the end of the month so you should be able to get a nice deal. :shades:
CDD - 6 Disc Player
FLA - Floor Mats
MCT - Rearview Dimmer
RSP - Rear Spoiler
AB2 - Side Airbags
1TP - Tow Pkg
MSRP: $27,320
Invoice: $25,382
After 3,000 Rebate and Dest charge: $22,789
Dealer is offering it for: $19,975
This looks like a good deal.... any thoughts?
Trouble is, these discounts will probably be reflected in the blue book values next year, so you still may want to hit about 10 dealers by email fax eom to see if it can be beat before the end of the month. That assumes it isn't the last blue one or whatever within 100 mi or so. If you gotta have it offer 18,500 and play hard to get. You're in the drivers seat. Tell him you're looking at several other vehicles and wifey hates blue. The market has been soft on these vehicles for more than a year.
FYI several dealers here in Southern Ohio in May were offering the same vehicle in 05 model year for about the same. (about $7000 off) So you've got a pretty good deal, the fact you got it so easily makes one suspicious there may be more there.
If you're into extended warranties or that sort of thing, try to keep any 7 to 8 year, 100 or 120k mi bumper to bumper factory warranties to about $800-1200. Othewise just pass.
lotsa luck
--jjf
This Tribute has the following options:
CDD - 6 Disc Player
FLA - Floor Mats
MCT - Rearview Dimmer
RSP - Rear Spoiler
AB2 - Side Airbags
1TP - Tow Pkg
MSRP: $27,320
Invoice: $25,382
After 3,000 Rebate and Dest charge: $22,789
Dealer is offering it for: $19,975
This looks like a good deal.... any thoughts?
Have a Merry Christmas!
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Base Price $19,845
Rear Cargo Convenience Group $150
Roof Rack W/Horizontal Crossbars $40
Aluminum Wheels $375
Convenience Group $350
Detination & Delivery $615
Total MSRP $21,375
Dealer documentation fee $89
Total price $21,464
$4,000 in rebates
$2,000 Dealer discount
My purchase price $15,464