not sure if this has been covered here, but this is one thing that totally pisses me off about buying a new car.
In most of my purchases in my everyday life, i go someplace, i see something i want, i see a price tag, i say, "i want this" give over the money on the price plus 6-8% sales tax, and leave with my new whachamajiggy.
with cars, i go, i step out, 4 people ask me how i'm doing and what i am looking for in a new car, etc, i am followed around a lot while people are asking questions, i find somethign i may want, they takl numbesr, i never know what their price is nor the markup, but i have an idea of what i am going to pay, they come back with a number that is always $2000-3000 higher than i am going to pay or that i could find on ebay anymore...and they go back in, come back out with another number and some weird offer like a laptop or something, i reject again bc it's still higher than i want to pay, and this goes on ad-infinum.
I was incredibly happy when saturn came out with the no haggle pricing dealio. You go, salesmen weren't on commission, you knew the price they were asking and you could buy with a minimum of interaction and taht was it. I have no idea if saturn is still that way or whatever, but it was a good idea..
i mean, honestly, why can't they run a normal business model, cost plus reasonable profit percentage to get retail. I just never understood what was so special about buying a car that required hours of haggling.
and yeah, i would not buy a domestic for anything anymore. It's a sad state of affairs to say that when my dad owned a 71 Ford F100 truck until two yrs ago and replaced it with a mazda bc the new ford trucks are overpriced for what you get..
sad sad state
and don't even get me started on the American SUV markup craze. Do you really need an SUV weighing 10,000 lbs and getting 12mpg? buy a bus if you do
It's just funny how a truck can be $20K, but an SUV built on that truck frame will be closer to $50K. There just isn't $30K difference in building costs