[quote=joec][quote=earlyretirement]My wife was deciding between an A4 and a BMW 328i. She loved both but it just came down to the Audi not being in stock with the one she wanted and it would have taken 3 or 4 months to order it.
Meanwhile the BMW they found one across the country like she wanted and transporting it here. I was amazed at how motivated the BMW dealerships are. Edmunds.com is the BEST way to buy a car as you have dealerships fighting after your business. We were getting $500 above dealer’s cost, then $250 over then $100 over and then even found a dealer that would give it to us at dealer’s cost which I’ve never before in all my years buying cars have seen.
We were all set to pay cash for the car but then they offered 1.9% financing if we financed it with BMW financing and then to boot, if we did, they rebated another $750 to go through them. So the financing costs very little as we put down a big down payment.
Plus they said we can have free weekly car washes for 2 years…… amazing how competitive they are right now.
Meanwhile, I went to the internet manager at Audi where I recently bought a Q7 to see if he can match BMW’s deal and offer the car AT COST and also got him to agree to it.
So car buying these days is definitely much easier using online sources like Edmunds. Love it..[/quote]
I also check truecar to see what people are paying. As flu said, the new 3-series BMWs are coming out next year so the current gen is being heavily discounted like pretty much below dealer invoice easy.
We’re in the same boat and considering the new 3 as well as Lexus (weak performance though). With BMW, you can also consider taking European delivery which will save you about 12% I think. That translates to about 5k or more which will cover your whole vacation to Europe. You can also join BMW CCA (club) for another 500-1000 discount depending on model…as well as loyalty cash, and sometimes, they have discounts for driving events, etc…[/quote]
joec,
FWIW: back in February, I was able to get an F10 5 series 100 below invoice in L.A. ….And the F10 was already the new body style…So, you *should* be able to get an E90 way below invoice, because what I don’t think we know is how much incentive the dealer is getting from the factory in terms of meeting their quotas, etc. That stuff doesn’t show up in edmunds, and varies depending on how well (or not) dealer moves cars off the lot…I can tell you, you can cross off the list any san diego dealer and the temecula dealership..There is no way you will get a better price down here versus in L.A. I dealt with all the dealers in S.D. and L.A., and the best dealers could do down in S.D./Temecula was to give me an offer $1200 above what I paid. If you need a referral, I can give you where I went, and who I worked with..He deals directly over email, so you don’t even need to go there.
Also, one big drawback i think with the F30 3 series will be..I believe it will also have electronic steering. It’s alright for a daily driver…But I’m not so sure if it’s going to be so wonderful if you plan on tracking the car…I wouldn’t be surprised if the first thing people try to do is figure out the “how to retrofit a steering rack from an e90 into an F30” mod…
