Ask HN: Do You Have Any Tips for Buying a Car Without Tremendous Markup in 2023?
I was looking at the Ford Maverick and thought, "Wow, this is a remarkably functional vehicle for a reasonable price", until I looked up dealers and they were all selling each model for at least 40% over MSRP and used are even more expensive...
Can you offer any recommendations for finding a good car for close to MSRP? Any particular brands that are more reasonable these days?(You don't need to tell me about Tesla).
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 15.1 ms ] threadMight help, especially with the list of most inventory.
Whatever car it is, it's just a car that a dealer is trying to move off its lot.
Whatever the asking price, the care sales person would rather get a cut of a small markup than zero percent of a dream price.
The goal of a dealership is to not maintain inventory.
Because the factory will make more cars.
Now the practical tip: use the power of the internet to contact individual sales people about what you want. I mean a few hundred within an arbitrary radius.
You can always fly to pick up a car.
You can always have a car delivered.
The cost is rounding error on the price.
Sales people who sell a lot of cars don't need to make their entire nut on you.
Good luck.