2022 kia Sportage LX model

Anonymous wrote:Make and model and I will tell you discount to aim for.

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Anonymous wrote:Currently there is a car shortage that is expected to last months. They can not replace the one you buy, so there is no reason to discount them.

This is hogwash. For some cars, there is a shortage. Not for all cars, or even most cars. The current inventory is 44 days as an industry average.

You know the industry average is usually 180 days right? It’s 44 days and shrinking. Plants are closed, cars are sitting waiting on chips. Drive by a dealer and look at the empty lots. They’re putting the incoming cars online to make it look like they have inventory.

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Anonymous wrote:Make and model and I will tell you discount to aim for.

Thoughts on the new Hyundai Santa Fe hybrid?

Looks like 5 percent off is fairly easy, and 8 percent off should be possible. Not a lot of data on this model. Start at 10 percent off. Ask all the dealers in a 100 mile radius. Push!

Maybe in regular times, not at the moment. There are 46 of them total within 100 miles of Rockville. That’s it. No new ones coming in until November. The best you will do is MSRP - rebate. When those 46 are gone, they’re gone.

Fitzgerald shows 4 in stock, only 1 is there. The other 3 are "in transit". Currently "in transit" means November at the earliest.

Anonymous wrote:Currently there is a car shortage that is expected to last months. They can not replace the one you buy, so there is no reason to discount them.

This is hogwash. For some cars, there is a shortage. Not for all cars, or even most cars. The current inventory is 44 days as an industry average.

Currently there is a car shortage that is expected to last months. They can not replace the one you buy, so there is no reason to discount them.

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Anonymous wrote:Make and model and I will tell you discount to aim for.

Thoughts on the new Hyundai Santa Fe hybrid?

Looks like 5 percent off is fairly easy, and 8 percent off should be possible. Not a lot of data on this model. Start at 10 percent off. Ask all the dealers in a 100 mile radius. Push!

Anonymous wrote:I was surprised years ago when a friend who worked for Audi gave me the Audi Friends and Family discount, which was $500 below dealer invoice. On a $62k car this brought it down to like $58k. So, at least for Audi, the dealer is only making a few thousand on each car, maybe 5-6%. That's not much room for negotiating.

Dealers also get direct manufacturer incentives, I think. Like if they sell a certain number of cars over a month, quarter, etc. sort of like bonuses.

I was surprised years ago when a friend who worked for Audi gave me the Audi Friends and Family discount, which was $500 below dealer invoice. On a $62k car this brought it down to like $58k. So, at least for Audi, the dealer is only making a few thousand on each car, maybe 5-6%. That's not much room for negotiating.

Through an hour or so of online research you can come up with a reasonable price to pay for just about any car (and figure out any rebates, financing offers, etc. that you mighty qualify for). Come up with that price, find a couple of dealers with the exact model and trim level and email them your number. If you have done your research, one of them will accept your offer.

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Anonymous wrote:Make and model and I will tell you discount to aim for.

Thoughts on the new Hyundai Santa Fe hybrid?

What thoughts?

Anonymous wrote:Make and model and I will tell you discount to aim for.

Thoughts on the new Hyundai Santa Fe hybrid?

Make and model and I will tell you discount to aim for.

Bought recently and didn't do a ton of negotiating. It's just not like the old days anymore where you get a deal by spending a full day threatening to walk out.

This time around, I found the local dealer that had the best posted price online of the car that I wanted, picked out a sales person from online reviews of people who had good experiences with him, and emailed him directly. Something like, "people who have reviewed you say that you're an honest broker and good to work with. If this price is accurate and there's nothing hidden, I'm very interested in coming in Friday morning, doing a test drive, and making a deal." TrueCar confirmed that the listed price would, if accurate, be a reasonably good deal.

And, somewhat to my surprise, the online price wasn't totally larded with incentives that I didn't qualify for, which is sometimes how they play those. So I basically said, "ok, that's a decent price, if I can get you down $500 from there, we have a deal." One back and forth with the manager and we had it.

They tried to haggle me a couple hundred bucks on my trade-in for "street parking scratches" and I held firm there.

OP, if I were in your shoes, I wouldn't tolerate getting the runaround, but I also wouldn't expect that you can smoke them out just because you're still seeing the same VIN on their website for weeks. They know the business better than you do (i.e. I have no idea if "weeks" for that particular trim level is normal or not - do you?), and for new cars these days, there isn't a huge amount of haggling that's feasible.

Email tons of dealers. I got a jeep and got 8% off invoice. I did a lot of negotiating but there was a list online with who gives the best prices so I knew what my goal point was and I custom ordered.

We are getting the runaround from a dealer about negotiating on a car. This particular car has been on their lot for weeks and they have 12 of them in various trim levels, so not a Telluride!

If you've bought a new car recently, how much negotiating could you do?