Looking for a dealer in pa/Ohio

[Steph]

I live in western pa on the border of Ohio , I’m looking for someone that will sell at msrp . Any luck out there ?

 

[ncpilot]

That's a long border... I gave up looking for MSRP. Went with Preston in Burton OH. They might get a bit touchy about out of state, but I grew up and have family in the immediate area, so they were ok with it.

$500 refundable deposit to order, $2k over MSRP, ordered on 3/29/22, delivered on 6/8 or 6/9.

How fast do you want one? Look at the wait times at the high volume MSRP dealers (seems like none in OH or PA anyway).

I lived for a few years outside of Cleveland in the mid-late 90s, flew out of Burke Lakefront to Port Meadville airport in PA for a fun little cross country...

 

[3Rivers]

I live in western pa on the border of Ohio , I’m looking for someone that will sell at msrp . Any luck out there ?

I bought an SXP from Kia of Monroeville less than two weeks ago for MSRP + a $1k paint/interior "protection package." I wasn't exactly delighted with that add-on, but considering the fact that the time from the start of my new car search to the Telluride's arrival in my garage was only 11 days, I can't complain too much.

 

[klb67]

I got a similar "deal" from Mike Kelly Kia in Butler in late January as 3Rivers recently got, with a quote of 4-6 months wait on an SX, and that was pretty accurate. I shopped hard for dealers up and down the east coast and also around the Great Lakes. Most dealers wanted 3K-5K market adjustment. VA dealers wanted 10K. One Pittsburgh dealer not Mike Kelly would sell at MSRP then but had over a year wait time. Other dealers, including Kia of Monroeville, were at 5K in Jan/Feb. Don't forget to factor your trade value if you have one - I found a dealer at 3K market adjustment, but they were much lower on my trade. I could not affordably get my hands on a Telluride in January when I wanted one and had to order and wait.

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[3Rivers]

Don't forget to factor your trade value if you have one - I found a dealer at 3K market adjustment, but they were much lower on my trade.

Yes, Kia of Monroeville initially lowballed me on my trade, but I got them to go up by $2k, which moved the offer from unacceptably low to more like standard, stingy-dealer low. I might have been able to get more by selling the vehicle separately, but it was far more convenient for me to wrap everything into one transaction. For me, it was the value of the entire package that I had to consider (super-quick turnaround + great specs on the Telly + no explicit markup over MSRP + $1k protection package + cheap but not outrageous trade offer). This was very far from the best deal I've ever gotten on a car purchase, but I had the sense that it was probably the best deal I could expect on a new Telluride for the foreseeable future.

 

[klb67]

Don't forget the tax savings with the trade in - that gets deducted from the sales price. At 7% it helps.

Was this a Telluride that someone backed out of?

 

[3Rivers]

Don't forget the tax savings with the trade in - that gets deducted from the sales price. At 7% it helps.

Was this a Telluride that someone backed out of?

I got the impression that that was a possibility, but I don't know for sure. Kia of Monroeville had at least a half-dozen Tellurides in transit for delivery around the end of May. A few of these were still available for reservation at the time I was talking to the dealer about their available inventory. The SXP I chose was not the only one. There was at least one other SX and maybe an EX that I could have bought. It was an embarrassment of riches, really. Anyone with a little flexibility about colors and equipment would have felt as though they'd stumbled into a gold mine.