A question on current Prius pricing

[Burner]

My wife has a 2006 Prius. When we purchased it, no dealer anywhere had one in stock, we couldn't test drive one prior to ordering, and we paid MSRP, as no deals were available. Since then Toyota increased production to the point that they actually offered deals on them for a brief period of time. I also noticed that dealers do still have them in their lots.

I will be needing a new car hopefully before Christmas. I am driving my Wife's old car, a 1998 Camry with 190,000 mies. With gas prices over 3 dollars a gallon, I am considering adding another Prius to our garage. My question is, will dealers go below MSRP or discount pricing in any way now, or is it still MSRP. What have people who have recently purchased experienced at the dealership?

[akramer84]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Burner @ Nov 1 2007, 01:03 PM) [snapback]533530[/snapback]</div>

My wife has a 2006 Prius. When we purchased it, no dealer anywhere had one in stock, we couldn't test drive one prior to ordering, and we paid MSRP, as no deals were available. Since then Toyota increased production to the point that they actually offered deals on them for a brief period of time. I also noticed that dealers do still have them in their lots.

I will be needing a new car hopefully before Christmas. I am driving my Wife's old car, a 1998 Camry with 190,000 mies. With gas prices over 3 dollars a gallon, I am considering adding another Prius to our garage. My question is, will dealers go below MSRP or discount pricing in any way now, or is it still MSRP. What have people who have recently purchased experienced at the dealership?
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In my experience in southern CA, a hot bed of prii, I was a ble to negotiate hundreds of dollars off of a touring package 6 prius. As a matter of fact the dollar amount was closer to $800. It is my impression that I could have received even a bigger discount closer to $1,000, but I wasn;t going to buy the car from the anyways. So, my view is that you shouldn't settle for anything less than at least $500 below msrp, if not more. I would start at offering to pay $300 above dealer cost and go from there.

[Burner]

Thanks for the info.

[pkscout]

I just bought my 2008 last weekend. I was able to get the dealer to knock a few hundred off the price, but that was about it. Still, it's better than paying sticker.

[JimN]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Kyle Johnson @ Nov 1 2007, 09:21 PM) [snapback]533651[/snapback]</div>

I just bought my 2008 last weekend. I was able to get the dealer to knock a few hundred off the price, but that was about it. Still, it's better than paying sticker.
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My advice is to read through www.carbuyingtips.com and contact the Internet sales managers now. Historically demand has followed the price of gas. In NJ gas has jumped as much as 10c overnight with prices in the $2.70's common. Under these circumstances I would expect it would be difficult to get a dealer to budge from MSRP. Good luck.

[slrobtx]

I just purchased a 2008 base w/package 3 this week for about 600 under MSRP sticker. Probably could have gotten even lower but was picky about color/package and was tired of waiting. I think it depends also on the area you're purchasing in. Check out the thread "How much you paid for your Prius" and you'll see what I mean!

[fwellers]

I just got $1400 off of msrp on a 2008 pkg 6. It wasn't easy though. They don't like to come off of that money on them.

In my experience you really really have to be ready to walk. Just say "Thank you, I guess it's not time for me to buy a car yet. I can't afford that much of a payment. blah blah. They seem to always go back to the manager and get more.

[rrussel2000]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(fwellers @ Nov 2 2007, 04:09 AM) [snapback]533783[/snapback]</div>

I just got $1400 off of msrp on a 2008 pkg 6. It wasn't easy though. They don't like to come off of that money on them.

In my experience you really really have to be ready to walk. Just say "Thank you, I guess it's not time for me to buy a car yet. I can't afford that much of a payment. blah blah. They seem to always go back to the manager and get more.
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I just bought a 2008 package 6 2 weeks ago in So. Cal. (L.A.) and my advice is to do internet searches of dealer inventories and find the car you want on that particular dealer's lot and then call or email the internet sales manager. I found no dealer willing to dealer trade as they would for another car. Most will balk at a lowball offer but if they have the car in stock they are more willing to negociate. I got $1200 off sticker because they had 3 of the color I wanted! Negociate from invoice price up. I had the actual pruchase price of the car firmed before I drove to the dealer. It was a good purchase experience as well.

[Woodcote]

I agree the internet sales manager is the way to go!

I contacted the internet sales manager, selected the car I wanted and he offered $1500 of the MSRP. With very minimal negotiating I received $2000 of MSRP, and the process was very painless (other than waiting 3 weeks for my exact pick to show up).

Before that I had shopped the dealers and none of the regular sales staff and managers would budge on the price.

[lefat1]

must be the location, i've been searching hi and lo, cant get any thing except wait, whats on the lots are either taken or not the touring 6 that i want. i put deposit down 9/16/07 still nothing in site.of course i have to have black, so that might be a hangup..