Thinking of pulling the trigger on a new 2011 C2S cab. A local dealer quoted me about $9200 off on a car with a sticker price of just under $116K. There appears to be a decent selection of comparably equipped cars around. Is this price close to rock bottom, or does anyone think I can do better?

 

What are the options on the car? Sometimes they load the price w/ near useless options. Top down in the winter with heated seats are a must.

 

840 - PDK 3-Spk Sprt SW w/Shft Pddls
541 - Front Seat Ventilation
686 - XM Radio
680 - BOSE© Surround Sound System
672 - Extend Navigation Mod-PCM 3.0
P36 - Infotainment Package
342 - Heated Seats - Front
P15 - Electronically Adjust Seats
P35 - Comfort Package
421 - 19" Turbo II Wheel
XPT - Storage Bin Lid w/Porsche Crst
640 - Sport Chrono Package Plus
603 - Dynamic Cornering Light
250 - Porsche Doppelkupplung (PDK)
267 - Automatically Dimming Interior

 

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Good selection of options. What is the color? & do you need a C4s because of the snow? Base price of the car has ~ 10.5% mark up & the option mark up of ~ 16%. Porsche has provided the dealers w/ $10,000 extra trade in money for trading in a Porsche. The 2012 are on the way in so I think your deal can get better. Saturday July 30th may be a good date to go back to them. Good luck & enjoy your purchase.

 

I think that is a nice deal, the options are mostly great IMO, I ended up w/dynamic cornering lights on mine even though I don't really need/want them. Also nice to see the PDK has the paddle wheel instead of the buttons, those are rarer here. I'd try to squeeze a little more out of it, if possible, but as it is, it's a fair price for both parties IMO. Are you trading in?

At the end of the day, if it's really the car you want with the options you want, a grand or two isn't going to matter when it's parked in your garage.

 

That comes out to 7.9% off MSRP and approx 2-3% above invoice. That would be a pretty good deal in CA right now, though it would depend on what other dealer "fees" they are planning to add on. In my area, several locations will give $3000 over invoice (about 3%) for a 2011 as part of their TrueCar or Zag pricing. As somebody else mentioned, you might want to consider the 2012's that are just arriving. The base MSRP for the coupe went up by roughly $1400 for 2012 (dunno what the cab difference was), but if you're able to find a 2012 also for the same $3000 over invoice, it's a really good deal in comparison (because the 2011 will lose resale "one year faster" = about 8-10%). If you lived in CA, I could tell you where to look for a 2012. Good luck.

Update:
Just checked TrueCar pricing, searching near Danbury, CT (random city), and at least one dealer (228 miles away from this city) will offer a 2011 C2S cab, regardless of options, for Invoice + $2,000 which is 8-9% off MSRP. This might be slightly better than your offer. Check it out. Alternatively, if you wait until December, I bet the 2011's will sell for invoice or slightly lower, based on previous year's data.

 

overall u should get that car for $10,750 off msrp at least.

 

I think it's a good deal .. especially considering the region and the fact that it's Cab season in the summer.

 

I'm in Nor Cal and the dealers are not willing to deal, yet.

 

I had done the truecar pricing and the dealer selling at $2000 over invoice is in MD, about 300 miles away. He doesn't have a car in inventory but offered to get one. I'm hoping to get the local guy to match or come very close. I'm looking at 2011 vs. 2012 because I would do a 27 month lease and the residuals are exactly the same--67% on PDK and 68% on manual. Porsche's Conquest program would cover the last few payments on my existing lease, and the 27 month lease minimizes the winter garage time.

 

I just got my 2012 C2S cab for about $5K below sticker. It's one of those really gorgeous cars that someone will walk in the showroom and fall in love with enough to buy on impulse, so I think the price was reasonable for a 2012. Plus, the salesperson invested a lot of time in me (at least 20 test drives over more than a year), so I felt that he'd been through enough and deserved a decent commission.

I would expect more of a discount on a 2011, so $9200 below sticker seems reasonble to me.

 

Sounds like a very fair price. Several dealers in CA are also offering $5k under MSRP for 2012 on the lot. One dealer was providing 5% (>$5k), and another 6% (>$6k) for 2012 custom orders (these were coupes though).

Sounds like you already know the pricing pretty well...so go for it!

I was in the same boat, so I did a fly-and-drive to Socal recently and picked up a 2012 for a % off MSRP that I was happy with. At least several socal locations were happy to discount newly arrived 2012's by 5-7% off MSRP, whereas in norcal, this didn't really seem like it was the case. In fact, some norcal dealers wouldn't even budge from 5% off MSRP for a 2011! Good luck.