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Joshua
The 2001 Ford Escort ZX2 currently has $1,500 Consumer Cash or the same financing program as above.
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Floridian, thanks anyway
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Joshua
Do you know of any other makes (especially Honda or Toyota) that offer this program? Is Ford planning to continue its program? Have any readers had experience with this? Most of the information on these programs is naturally aimed at the early 20's age bracket. Is there an age limit? If there is, it is not evident in the web sites.
I will double check tommorow at work and let you know.
about 15178 - 750 = 14428.I may be off alittle because I don't know what their exact advertising fee is but in Iowa it is 276.00.To order a vehicle will take 90 days , so I would have them locate one for you. It may cost you a extra 100.00 to locate.I would contact a internet specialist or the sales manager. They do not have any first time buyer programs but they do have a college grad program with an extra 500.00 on frontiers.
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Although the rules of each program will vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, none of the rules that I have ever seen contain any sort of age limit. In most instances, they just stipulate that you must have or must be about to graduate from a 2 or 4 year college or vocational school.
Toyota's incentives programs are very regional and are difficult to generalize about. They do not have one national college graduate program. From time to time, certain regions do run this sort of promotion though. I recently saw a college grad allowance that was available in the their Southeast region. Similarly, I am sorry to say that I do not believe that Honda has any sort of college grad program going on right now.
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Even though you will not be able to take advantage of the Dealer Cash on this car, it definitely does not mean that you will have to pay close to full MSRP for one. The market for Saabs is relatively soft, you probably will have the ability to negotiate a deal that is closer to this car's Dealer Invoice price than its MSRP.
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Dawn
Reading further into your post, I see that you have been offered a price of $29,946 for this 4Runner. This certainly sounds like a reasonable price to me, but again it never hurts to shop around a little bit.
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There isnt anything you can do, even the dealer has no control over this type of thing...you have 2 options, take it as is which is probably a good deal especially considering the warranty extention that Olds is offering...or wait and see if it gets better but the car "you" want may not be available. GM pulling the plug on Olds has been a boom for the franchise, sales are up 20% in a downward market.
Rich
Is the automarket favorable such that we are likely to see something like a 0 down 0.?% lease in the next three months?
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Danny Dreamer
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Do you know if VW has recently offered lease rates more favorable than 6.5%?
One dealer told us that they offered a basic stick bug for $239/mth for 36 months, last Dec.
Two other dealers said it never happened!!!!!!!
We will wait until 2-6 to seee how it goes, but until then, we'd like to straighten out our confusion.
DANNY DREAMER
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Chris
It seems to me that if the car company wants to offer a special 4.9% APR, it should be to anyone who qualifies. Is there any evidence to support that this is Mazda dealer is full of it?
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I just got back from visiting a couple of chevy dealers today. They pretty much confirmed what you just said. I knew that it wasn't to realistic, but curiosity got the best of me. The deal was 5k off MSRP which included a 750 college grad rebate. That was off MSRP on any LS. One thing that I forgot to ask was if you could still deal on the price or if that WAS the final price. I would be surprised though if they would deal any further. They final price for a decently equiped (I know that is subjective) LS was around 31k + or - 1k depending on the options, not including tax title delivery etc. Not a bad deal. I am still thinling about the Z71 option and also holding out for the Avalanche. I'm getting off topic here. Anyway thanks for your input.
Chris
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I saw this one coming
Bill
http://www.donhowson.com/fact_incent.html
which is OK, but it doesn't seem to include everything, as in the LA area the Chevy dealers are still advertising a GM Auto Show Bonus Cash and GM Full Size SUV Loyalty Rebate. It sure would be helpful to buyers to have a one-stop spot for this information. If there isn't, maybe this is why.
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For a detailed list of all of the available consumer incentives on Chevrolet and GMC vehicles, you can always pay a visit to their respective Web sites. Both brands maintain very accurate lists of their current offers. Of course, you won't find out about any sort of dealer cash incentives on a manufacturer's official Web site, but when looking for information on consumer cash and special financing programs it is hard to beat the data that these sites have. Here are links to the incentives sections of Chevrolet and GMC's sites: Current Chevrolet Offers and Current GMC Offers.
I don't think that any other Web sites have more complete General Motors incentives information than the ones that I mentioned above. However, from time to time I am aware of certain incentives programs that seem to slip through the cracks or perhaps aren't that widely publicized. Please feel free to ask me about the current incentives programs for any vehicles that you are interested in. I would be more than happy to fill you in on what I have heard about them.
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The reason why I mentioned the other specific website previously was because it listed the lease interest rates for Chevy vehicles. If accurate, that's very helpful to know and I wish something like that was readily available for all cars. But if not, thanks for your offer to help me out. Where do you get your latest incentives and lease rate information? Thanks again!
Traditionally General Motors has not offered much in the way of incentives on either the Chevrolet Suburban or Tahoe. Of course, there is much more competition in the sport utility vehicle market now than there ever was in the past and GM may eventually have to offer some support on these trucks. It is difficult to predict future incentives programs with 100% accuracy, but if I had to guess right now I would say that I don't anticipate any major new incentives on either of these two trucks over the next several months. Of course, incentives are driven by a manufacturers' sales results. If GM's sales, especially those of these two models, go in the tank then they may make some mid-program enhancements.
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