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This dealer got to be the most ridiculous. He wants 38k-41k for suby sti. Hopefully there wont be a dumb dealer doing that with the rx-8 in our so-cal.

Thanks for the very relevant post, moogle.

You've taught us that some people try to sell for more money than something is worth.

you got to be insane to buy at WRX STi for $40000 then be stuck in California with 91 pon rated gas when the STi requires 93... uh oh:eek:

well im sure there will be dealers with a merkup. i heard a dealer in L.A. selling evos for $20,000 over invoice. thats $50,000 for a mitsubishi!! so yes you can expect some dealers marking up the price of the rx8. heck some of those people selling pre-orders on ebay are dealers!!

It's true..... EVOs go for about $40K here....... and the funny thing is people buy them.

One dealer here told me all his incoming RX-8s will be $38,000. All GT of course.. I'm hoping my dealer dont get greedy as such.

Sad.

Man 38K? I hope not. I have no problem with a dealer marking up a hot car but there are limits. Now if that is a loaded GT with all the goodies including NAV and every other option, that does come out around what 36K?

When you add the $ 1,295.00 desert protection package or the sea salt protection package or the tiny steel termite protection package whereby a guy getting paid $ 8.00 an hour spits on your car and rubs it for you, that's a fair mark-up, right? :p

Yup, there sure are limits.. I'll be confirming those prices any time now.. when the dealers get em and I'm there with my checkbook.

Shoot, if they're firm and not coming down from a wacked price like that, Mazda will have just lost a customer for life, and Infiniti will gain a new one... Cuz I sure as hell can get a whole lot more car at $38K than an RX-8.. nothing against the 8 of course.



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Someone from Hawaii was talking about having an 8 shipped over from LA if it turned out to be cheaper. That might work for you too. Do you have Costco in Hawaii? If so that is another possibility that will get the price lower. I went that way and even though the 8 is not listed at Costco, the dealer worked with me on a fair price given our market. Most people here seem to be at MSRP with a few even lower.

Ya, I was trying to find a dealer on the West Coast to try that.. it may be too late in the game to get one soon though. However if negotiations turns out bad I may try it nonetheless.

Yes, we have Costco here.. I'm curious, how can they help?

If you join as an Executive member for $100.00 a year, first you get 2% back on almost all purchases. More importantly you can buy cars at below MSRP for the most part. I just checked and woohoo the RX-8 is now officially listed at Costco. I don't know what the price will be because the 8 was not up officially at the time I ordered my car (the dealer will honor the Costco price.)

You can at the very least find out what your dealer in Hawaii will sell an 8 for in order to honor their agreement with Costco. It should be better than any deal you can make on your own. I hope it works out for you. :)


Try this link.

http://www.costcoauto.com/carre/

$38,000 for a Hawaii dealer. That seems to be about right considering MSRP is around $31K. I was going for the GT model but then settled for the Touring one(I don't need leather and powered seats) I'm guessing the Touring model will probably sell for around $34K. Thats one of the disadvantages of living here in Hawaii, everything is so expensive!

True, but I would assume dealer's pay the same price for the cars as do mainland dealers, no?

I understand markup on a hot car, but sometimes it's ridiculous here.

Hawaii dealers don't pay any more for the cars than the mainland dealers do. Heck, many dealers are mainland owned chains anyway. The only difference is that we've got less of them, and the dealers think they have a captive audience. I'm a local guy, but I've lived in the SF Bay Area and Seattle. There you could shop around and play one dealer off another, here it's harder to do that. On the mainland, you can also drive a 100 miles (or more) to some hick town that isn't car crazy and get a better deal, here you can't.

Many Hawaii dealers slap on a markup as standard practice. But don't let that fool you, you can easily get a car for below MSRP. It's just a case of supply and demand. If a car is hot, and people are willing to pay, the dealers are in luck. But if not, they'll deal. A friend of mine tried to deal on a Mustang Cobra at a local Ford dealer, but didn't get the price he wanted. He then went with an internet car broker. The car broker got him the exact car he was looking at, from the same dealer, for $4K less. Never thought about the Costco route, but it could be a way to go. I have shipped over a car before, and I'd suggest Washington State or Oregon dealers. LA and San Fran are almost just as bad as Hawaii.

I refuse to pay a dime over MSRP!:mad: