New Vehicles

farmer boy

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Looking at new trucks. I was a die hard Chevy guy, but the whole bail-out thing has me looking at Ford. I also think they're a better truck at the moment. For those of you that have bought (a) new vehicle(s), how much wiggle room is there on trucks? They currently have "employee" pricing and 'delivery incentives' On a $45,xxx.xx truck, they have about 11,750 discounts, for a listed price of around 34,xxx.xx. Realistically, how much will they come off that price? This is new to me, not normally a new vehicle person. Thanks for any advice you can give me.
 
You are getting close, probably a little more on the table but not much. On F150s listing in the 48 thousand range some times we can get about 17 thousand or so . We run 12 total and trade or buy either 2 or three each year. Most times we just sell to some of the employs and buy out right. Buying this time of the year you are going to have a model year old truck within 3 months so you need to get a pretty good discount. MIGHT want to wait till 15s come out however you may not find the model or color you want left. Looks like the carry over is going to be slim because the deliver date of the 15s is going to be two months late.
 
New truck!,..baad investment. 10 grand gone as soon as you drive off the lot.
Any brand. :wink:
 
I think that would be close to the right figures. As for the loosing 10 grand , I can show you our TRUE cost after vehicle purchase/resale,all maintaiance and fuel and I will bet we are riding cheaper than most folks.
 
Ford has a major redesign this year with F150, could wait until that, older might be discounted more, or not. Ram 1500 has a little diesel option. Cousins just bought a 14 Ram 3500 dually Cummins. Had hail damage, sticker was about $60k, they paid $36k. Had some above average dents in it, but nothing that affected their use as a work truck.
 
I wish that were the case. We used to buy 1 and 2 year old pickups for the company. A good low mileage 2 year old truck is usually about 3-5 thousand less than new price. A 1 year old low mileage truck usually brings close to its new price. Its "cheaper" to buy a new one and get the full warranty and start out with new tires than buy low mileage 1 or 2 year old one.

I have to compute mileage and assign a value to the pickups at the beginning of the year. One owner has a company assigned 2014 Ford F150XLT Platinum with the V6 turbo, according to Kelly and NADA that pickup INCREASED in value even with 16K miles on it.
 
The best time of the year to buy is in sept. right after the new models come out. They discount the year end models to clear them out.
 
try the truecar.com.

we've bought 2 cars that way. YOu can take another couple hundred off usually.

the true car factors in the rebates but limits you to partisipating dealers. We have gotten a non-truecar dealer to match (beat) the price.

The more the car price/more options the more room to negociate usually.
 
What part of the country are you in?

I'm in Houston and we have so many dealerships that the competition is fierce. Last truck I bought new was about 5k less than in the Midwest. I have family in Iowa and Minnesota so it was easy to shop prices.
 

In the summer of '05 I bought an F-350 with 6.0 with a sticker price of $40,000 for $32,000. As soon as it went off warrantee it cost me $5,000 in repairs and as you know they knew that the motor had bad problems yet they kept selling it. Since Ford told me to get lost after having bought 9 of them I recently bought a Toyota and I got about 18% off shopping on line.
 
(quoted from post at 08:22:11 07/28/14) I think that would be close to the right figures. As for the loosing 10 grand , I can show you our TRUE cost after vehicle purchase/resale,all maintaiance and fuel and I will bet we are riding cheaper than most folks.

I drive a 1972 F100. Only about $500 in it. Put 30K on it during the last 2 years. gets 18 MPG with a 302. Going strong.
I like cheap drives.
 

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