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Originally Posted by sylenze
i dont know what your target price is ...maybe it is too unrealisticly low...but in my experience fontana is the dealership that gave me the best price and service during the time of my purchase... in any case, good luck on ur purchase...
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**let me put this here first, i know dealers will lowball you in trade **
oh the price i got was great, i won't put what they gave me, but it was fair imo.
the financing wasn't an issue as i was going to go thru my credit union for 4.98% which was already set up before i went to fontana nissan.
it fell apart at trade in value. my car is a 2008 mazdaspeed 3 gt with ~17k miles. here is
nada value:
retail
$20,150
clean
$17,225
average
$16,250
rough
$15,050
and kbb value:
Excellent
$16,650
Good
$15,750
Fair
$14,150
even though my car is in closer to clean/excellent than good (since no car is ever truly clean/excellent) i was expecting something in the ~16 range.
i have been cross shopping the is350 and evo X as well and they offered me ~17k and 16.6k respectively. so when i got the offer of 12.5k i was like what?
so i said someone must be looking up mazda3 trade-in values, and they looked again and said oh, 13.5k is the offer then, nothing higher.
now i do see ms3's going for ~20k @ dealers with similar mileage.
i figured i get 16k in trade, they spend 2k in dealer prep, and make 2k off my trade-in + financing. i would have done it right then and there, i probably would have accepted 15.5k in trade also.
it has been hard finding a base + sport package in stick, so that pretty much offset the fact that it's a buyers market right now. ah well, i'll continue looking, wait for a 2010, or get the evo X.