Indeed, definitely a bad dealer, but I’m not alone. Many dealers have pulled the same stunts with others. Porsche used to be very good to deal with, and they were some of the last dealers over here to start being stupid with allowing over MSRP.
Sadly it’s perfectly legal in the US for dealers to charge huge markups, and for whatever reason, people keep paying it. I have never paid over MSRP for any car (~100 of them now), and refuse to change that now.
Agreed, I'd never pay over MSRP for a new car, principles and all that.
Porsche are to blame though, because they allow it to happen, it is rife in the UK as well just dealers go about it differently, sell the car at MSRP to a trusted customer, said customer hands it back a few months later for a nice profit and then dealer sells its lightly used for a hansom profit as well, very clear what is happening but Porsche do nothing. There are several owners do it multiple times it seems so Porsche are also not then black listing a customer who does it. I think to an extent this is what Ferrari do but they are all guilty of it.
It is a shame because out of all the manufacturers out there I'd say now only Porsche, Mclaren, Lotus and Caterham are building brand new cars that are still about true driving feel. Most other manufacturers now just want to offer up their sporty cars but they drive nothing like a sports car, latest M2 is very evident of this, entire car felt rubbery in the way it drove, nothing was direct or involving, its an M car, very underwhelming. Problem is those left still making true drivers cars all have issues, Porsche is the flippers game, Mclaren is very expensive and limited model lineup, Lotus neither engine is particular great and Caterham well too extreme for 99.9% of customers.
This is the exact reason why so many old car values have rocketed, yes its an element of nostalgia and people who grew up always wanting one, but its also people realising the older stuff drives how you expect a car to drive but more importantly are fun to drive within the speed limits.
/rant over.
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