Placed a deposit yesterday on a July build for an '08. If you look into your crystal ball what kind of discount (if any) do you think I'll see.

Oh yeah, for the good part: Here's my spec (subject to change but I don't think so).

Slate Grey
Black full leather
Adaptive Sport seats
LSD
rocker panel painted
sport chrono
mats (this one kills me)
Heated seats
thicker sport steering wheel
leather door finishers
crest in headrests (not sure about this, but for $270 or so at this point...)
short shifter (either dealer or factory if they change)

Now comes the hard part. I am not used to waiting for cars. My dealer also thinks It may be a good idea to try to get rid of my car around April as it may fetch more as opposed to end of summer. He's probably right, but it will suck to not have a nice car for the summer.

 

Another alternative to the discount off sticker would be to start hounding your dealer about getting you tax credits. Alot of times they are awarded a certain number of tax credits per month - my salesman did and it saved me $8k in taxes.

 

interested, can you explain this further?

 

Are you sure that wasn't a trade-in tax credit?

Jeremy

 

Thats what I was thinking...would be surprised if CA for example kicked down tax credits on the purchase of a Porsche!

 

Yeah, me too! Do you mean the tax credit on the trade in? I will try to sell privately and have it go through the dealer so I'll get a bit more and still get the tax advantage.

 

You must be joking.

 

No. I traded in nothing. Most financial corps (Porsche Financial included) take in alot of lease returns and trade-ins every month. As I understand it, this allows them to apply these trade-ins towards new financing deals, thus they can extend trade-in tax credits to anyone they choose to. I learned this from a leasing agent, and have gotten tax credits on my last two deals - 997tt and XC90.

 

very interesting info, thank you for sharing.

 

Doubt you'll see much of a discount on a '08 in July. Which dealer?

 

Manhattan -

 

I know they changed a lot of personel there, never really heard anything good about that place, good luck though.

 

bought my C2S there and was pretty painless. I didn't even ask for anything off - I was given a number the first time I spoke to them and that number was better than anywhere else that I looked so I bought it there. I live on the Island so service at Huntington or Legend. If sticker or close to then it doesn't really matter where I buy it. Certainly if they give me any reason to look elsewhere I will do that - certainly not locked into them but the sales guy has done OK by me so far.

 

I use roslyn, aka silverstar. They gave me a great deal on my 996 and an ok deal on the TT. I'm in Glen Head(work in the city), where are you?

 

chris, PM sent