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How's your dealership experience been with ordering your 350?
mattlqx
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Yeah, this ^^^
It's super hard to justify Z06 money on it, despite how inevitably awesome the GT350 will be. There's a handful of Z06s on the dealer lots just around me today. I'm a Ford guy through and through, but C7s are extremely nice and capable vehicles.
It's super hard to justify Z06 money on it, despite how inevitably awesome the GT350 will be. There's a handful of Z06s on the dealer lots just around me today. I'm a Ford guy through and through, but C7s are extremely nice and capable vehicles.
Bossing
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I agree with the bang for the buck. The big discounts on the C7 Z06 is usually on the loaded ones (i.e. >100k sticker price). I purposely ordered a stripper version last Sept (even though a base Z06 is pretty much loaded with lots of features anyway) and only added the PDR/Nav option... my msrp was $80,790 out the door and boy does it deliver. I have tracked it 9x already and no issues neither... but I cannot wait for the GT350 as I'm sure it'll be just as fun and highly capable on the track. As for spending 70K-90K on the new Shelby? No way... that's too much IMO.
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enzo101
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My dads been looking at them for a while and keeps going to it or the new CTS-V. Haven't been on any forums but the z06 seems to have high praise. The only way I could understand paying that much for the new 350 is if it was one of the 37 2015 Rs. That I could kinda understand.
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Brutane
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Needless to say my dealership charged me ADM. I have bought 4 cars over 60,000 bucks in the past 3 yrs and a 30,000 dollar one too. As far as I'm concerned I'll never buy from them again. Hope that $5,000 bucks was worth it.
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enzo101
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That's such bull. Same thing happened to my mom when the 07 gt500 came out. We had our name on it 2 years in advanced and the weekend before it came in the owner came to us and said it'll be 20k over sticker. Bought over 10 cars from them and haven't been back since.
1LEThumper
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I called around the country to try and order THREE of these. My dad was going to get one, I was, and I had a customer at work that wanted an R. One would think a dealer would be going nuts over it.
Everyone said they were sold out but one dealer in North Carolina said they could get me one in 2017.
So I all but gave up. A friend and customer here at work is big into the local track day events and is an instructor with his Boss Mustang and he gave me the scoop on a dealer that was doing Sticker for the club guys and gave the salesman my name. We went back and forth over email and now I have my order in on a GT350 and should have it, I hope...soon.
Sad thing is, they lost the other two sales.
So it would seem to me most of the dealers have no clue what is going on but through some friends I manged to find a heck of a good dealer that got me the car for sticker and has been very cool to work with.
Everyone said they were sold out but one dealer in North Carolina said they could get me one in 2017.
So I all but gave up. A friend and customer here at work is big into the local track day events and is an instructor with his Boss Mustang and he gave me the scoop on a dealer that was doing Sticker for the club guys and gave the salesman my name. We went back and forth over email and now I have my order in on a GT350 and should have it, I hope...soon.
Sad thing is, they lost the other two sales.
So it would seem to me most of the dealers have no clue what is going on but through some friends I manged to find a heck of a good dealer that got me the car for sticker and has been very cool to work with.
1LEThumper
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I think I could probably bet you $500 that over the course of 30 mins on track between a stock C7Z06 and a new GT350, the Mustang will complete more laps than the Corvette will. Might not set an outright fastest lap, but I bet it does MORE laps in that time period.
Good Texas day the Z06 will not last much more than 10-15 mins before it overheats with a Pro driver behind the wheel.
rick8172
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Local dealer says he has an allocation for 1 GT350 and 1 GT350R - then sends an email asking if the price he emailed earlier was OK. He never emailed the price. I called again today, no call back. Hmmm
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MAV
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First post, guys, but yeah...^^^ this! Grrr!!!
I've never seen a bunch of car dealers so inept and so disinterested in finalizing a deal as with the 25 or so dealers I've been in touch with so far. The responses I've gotten range from "Huh? What's a Shelby?" to "These cars will be worth a half million dollars in 50 years, so getting one for $75k today is a steal! A STEAL I tell ya!"
I've narrowed it down to three dealers, one has a red/white tech pack already on order, wants $2.5k over. One has quoted "$1000 - $1500 over" but hasn't called back with details even after I said I'm ready to put down the deposit if he can make the offer firm and tell me what it would take to get the order started. The last has quoted another member "$500 over MSRP", but since that member has already finalized a deal at MSRP, the allocation is still available. Yet, every time I call (I have to call...they never call me back), it's "Well, we just don't know when we can get it or how we can get it. We just know we can get one."
I told that same guy today he's got a sale if he will just find out the details and stick with his previous quote. He said he would go talk to his GM right now and call me back in 10 mins. That was 4 hours ago.
I've never seen a bunch of car dealers so inept and so disinterested in finalizing a deal as with the 25 or so dealers I've been in touch with so far. The responses I've gotten range from "Huh? What's a Shelby?" to "These cars will be worth a half million dollars in 50 years, so getting one for $75k today is a steal! A STEAL I tell ya!"
I've narrowed it down to three dealers, one has a red/white tech pack already on order, wants $2.5k over. One has quoted "$1000 - $1500 over" but hasn't called back with details even after I said I'm ready to put down the deposit if he can make the offer firm and tell me what it would take to get the order started. The last has quoted another member "$500 over MSRP", but since that member has already finalized a deal at MSRP, the allocation is still available. Yet, every time I call (I have to call...they never call me back), it's "Well, we just don't know when we can get it or how we can get it. We just know we can get one."
I told that same guy today he's got a sale if he will just find out the details and stick with his previous quote. He said he would go talk to his GM right now and call me back in 10 mins. That was 4 hours ago.
tonio
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Initially the lowest I got was $5k over MSRP.. I was mulling it over but said nah. A great member here contacted me with a deal he had of $1k over MSRP out of state and I jumped right on it. We were supposed to do the paperwork this week until a local dealer I contacted called and said they wont do rebates, but will do MSRP.. I signed the paperwork yesterday and told them they have a customer for life.
Deals are out there. I contacted at least 15 dealerships.. and only needed one.
Deals are out there. I contacted at least 15 dealerships.. and only needed one.
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I looked @ a M4 the Other day and the salesman said BMW cannot charge over sticker even on the i8 which sells for $145K on back order. ford get with it .....if you want other than ford customers. Im so turned off by local dealership attitudes. I got the cash but that's not good enough. I don't think a BMW customer is cross shopping with this nonsense.
I wanted a black one with black stripe ...
I wanted a black one with black stripe ...
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Yes but ford said they want BMW and Porsche buyers. Don't think that's going to happen from my experience. Just treat us like buying customers with brains ford. In the rural areas how many people are going to buy a loaded $65K mustang ? So that dealer sells it for $$$ over list to a dealer in the bigger market. Then that dealer adds another $$$$. This will take a year or more to settle down. It's sad it works this way but it is what it is.
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