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I'm aware of the rebates and special apr's for Chrysler that are good through 3/31. I'm looking to lease and they're offering $3k lease cash until then.
My question is, does anyone know what, if anything will be available after 3/31? Do you think there will be another one or bigger incentives as they get closer to the 2005 models? I'm considering the Pacifica.
Usually dealers dont know(or wont say)what will be available beyond whats current. Remember the dealer wants you to buy today, not tomorrow so that wouldnt help immediate sales if better future incentives were known.
The reverse can be true, too. I bought an 00 DC minivan in January of 2000 and at the time you could get 0.9% for 60 months. That offer was good thru March. When the next round of incentives came the 0.9% was gone. So I chose a good time to buy. Hope this helps.
Good luck.
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The incentives section shows the following:
- $1000 Factory cash rebate to customers
- $1000 Marketing support to dealers
- $3500 Marketing support to dealers
Are the $1000 and $3500 marketing support amounts additive, or does the $3500 replace the $1000 support? Also, is there really an additional $1000 factory cash to customers? Is there really $4500 (or $5500) of rebate available on this car?
Any enlightenment would be greatly appreciated - we want to buy the car this week, and like everyone else, want to spend as little as possible.
Thank you!
Nick
This basically sums everything up, but please let me know if you have any other questions.
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The dealer may feel he won't part with the dealer cash .. I may not agree with it, but it is his option, his store .. check around and see what the other Volvo dealers in your area are doing.
Terry.
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The Chrysler Pacifica's incentives are a little more confusing. DCX is currently providing 0.0% financing for up to 5 years OR $3,000 customer cash OR 0.0% financing for up to 4 years PLUS $2,000 customer cash on this model. It also is providing special lease rates and lease cash on it this month.
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I can do an '03 or '04 Murano. But what is lease support?
As for the Pacifica, I know about the $3k lease cash, but what are the special lease rates and cash for this month?
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Thnaks
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About 20,000 have been produced so far. 4500 this year, but there were only 1500 sold in January.
I can't help but think some kind of major rebate is coming.
This is what I know so far.
Base V6 MSRP is $38,690. Invoice is $35,840. I own a Lexus so $1500 conquest cash is available.
Making it $34,340.
But a local dealer is advertising a new one for
$33,700.
I did some additional research and found out that cadillac has given some dealers a very limited amount of Certificates valued at $500 each.
They can use 1-4 certificates per vehicle.
So 2 certificates would chop another $1,000 off making the $33,700 price work for him.
In light of the slow sales should I gamble and wait for some bigger incentives?
These things are not flying off the shelves but I was very impressed with the SRX i drove this afternoon.
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The one time I mentioned it during negotiations, I was pretty much told that holdback would not be discussed. Now that doesn't mean that some dealers won't dip into holdback to sell a car. But it isn't something I'd bring up again.
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Just curious if you could help me understand how Buick applies all of the incentives they offer to leases. In other words, I see they have offers like $3000 rebate + $750 bonux cash (probably going away soon) - but does all that apply if you lease the car?
In addition, can you provide me the money factor and residual amounts for a 36, 39, and 48 month lease, at both 12k and 15k miles/year? I am interested in the CXL model if that matters.
Thanks Much!
Damon
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Also, can you provide me with the money factor and residual pecentage if you have the information available to you? I am interested in 36, 39, and 48 month - you can answer for 12k miles/year.
Thanks! Damon
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I ended up getting a great deal and left with the car. I was suspicious the next day when the dealer said the 1.9 financing fell through. My credit is excellent but they cited some items from 10 years earlier that were actually my ex's.
They knew I had fallen in love with the car and I knew I wouldn't make even one payment at the dealer's alternative financing rate. It was the weekend so I had few options.
I did apply online with Capital One and got the approval on Monday. Unfortunately I now have to pay a slightly higher rate because its considered a refinance.
I am sure this was the only way the dealer was going to make any money since I paid considerably less than Edmund's invoice price. I did get the 750.00 rebate since I didn't qualify for the low interest.
I would caution those counting on these low financing terms to have the dealer qualify you first and then make your best deal.
1) you posted that your credit is excellent. Do you know that for a fact and do you know your credit score ?? Maybe you pay your bills but have a large balance on some of your accounts. Maybe to qualify for the low interest loan you needed to put more down payment into the car.
2)Knowledge is power - so if your credit is truly excellent why did you bother to deal with these lying weasels. If your credit is fairly good but not excellent then what happened to you is to some extent your own fault.
3) This may be a dealer game to extract more money out of you. You had the option to return the car if the terms of the contract were not met. Their offer of the high interest rate was just another way to pack the deal.
4) My credit union will refinance any car as new if the car has been purchased in the last 90 days. Maybe you could find a credit union/bank that will help you out in the same way. In other words, you may not have to pay an interest rate penalty even though the car has been driven off the lot and is not (technically) new anymore.
5) Just so you'll know, the rebate received ($750) is worth about a one percent reduction in interest rate for a $30k (or so) loan over a 60 month payment. My credit union is offering 4.09 percent loans for new cars to people with excellent credit. So it seems to me, that your loss (between 1.9 and 4.09 percent financing) is on the order of about 2 percent or around $1500 by not getting the low financing. Subtracting off your rebate and your loss is around $750 net.
So that loss of low financing cost you maybe 2 to 3 percent total of the value of the car over the life of the loan. That's a fair amount of money but relative to the value of the car its not gonna break you.
My suggestion is to just enjoy the car and not to worry too much about the relatively small details of the car loan.
Yep, that would be my question ...
Terry.
Anyone know of any new GM incentives?
Since we're talking about obscure programs, I thought that you might be interested in the fact that GM is running another one right now that provides its dealers with a number of $500 "instant value certificates" that can be used on deals. I haven't seen exactly how many of these certificates are floating around out there, but you may find that certain dealers have a little more room to negotiate on certain deals.
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I was all set to purchase a 2004 Saturn Vue,V6, as GM is offering a $2500.00 rebate. I also have 1500.00 on my GM card but was told that Saturn is not accepting the GM points. I know that at sometime in the not too distant past they did take GM points. What's the skinny??? Would appreciate a fast reply, as the 2500.00 rebate expires 3/31/2004.
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We were looking at a '03 V70 (I know, I know, we should consider the V70 T, but I don't think we can swing it.) Anyways when we were looking last fall, I noticed there was 4K dealer cash available, probably to make way for the '04s.
We're probably going to buy this fall and am wondering what the word on the street is regarding moving the '04s later this year? Do you think they'll have the $4K dealer cash on them this fall to make room for the '05's??
(I would think so because they introduced the $2K on the '04s soon after they came out).
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