Dealers Are Charging a 21 THOUSAND DOLLAR Premium For a New Stingray

Kinja'd!!! "The World of Vee" (theworldofvee)
09/27/2013 at 17:33 • Filed to: Stealership

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That's a basic 1LT 2014 Corvette. The price for those is a fairly reasonable $53,800. This dealer want twenty one thousand over MSRP for the luxury of owning one. I mean I know it's sexy, especially in Laguna Blue Tintcoat, but that's a bit excessive don't you think?

But then again...look at what you get:

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NO! No...It's still wrong!


DISCUSSION (16)


Kinja'd!!! AbigGRNboot > The World of Vee
09/27/2013 at 17:35

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Ridiculous. GM will make plenty for anyone who wants one. There is only a premium to be the first. Stupid.


Kinja'd!!! Victorious Secret > The World of Vee
09/27/2013 at 17:35

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LOL.

Wait one year, see what the 2015 model has in changes otherwise acquire a used 2014.


Kinja'd!!! The World of Vee > Victorious Secret
09/27/2013 at 17:36

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I plan on buying a 2015 or used 2014 model this time next year.

It's time for a new car, and this is the first Corvette I've outwardly lusted over


Kinja'd!!! TheBaron2112 > The World of Vee
09/27/2013 at 17:38

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They won't sell for MSRP. When I bought my Fiesta ST, they brought me a printout of what the dealer cost was for each of the items (base car, upgrade package, etc) and then next to those was a column of what they were actually charging. The markup was pretty reasonable.

I can only hope that I had a good dealership experience and that this will be applied to all dealerships ever.


Kinja'd!!! jlmounce > The World of Vee
09/27/2013 at 17:46

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A few dealers will try this and a few idiots will pay it. The volume corvette dealers work on allocations. You can't get allocations if you don't sell the cars. As a result, those dealers tend to sell new models at MSRP for as long as they can, then start marking them down to get them out the door. A dealer like Les Stanford, Kerbeck etc. likely won't have markups because of that.


Kinja'd!!! SonorousSpeedJoe > The World of Vee
09/27/2013 at 17:50

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Well, there are salesmen like this guy (the dealer he works for is one of the largest 'Vette dealers in the nation, I believe) selling them for MSRP .


Kinja'd!!! Random Commenter > The World of Vee
09/27/2013 at 17:56

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People shouldn't buy one from dealerships that do this... After their Corvette inventory has been sitting gathering dust on their lot for a couple months, they'll be selling them for MSRP... maybe even offering deals.


Kinja'd!!! dieselwagon > TheBaron2112
09/27/2013 at 18:02

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I am clearly in the wrong business.


Kinja'd!!! DCCARGEEK > The World of Vee
09/27/2013 at 20:01

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Psshhh. Local dealer had a $35,000 plus-up on a Shelby GT500.


Kinja'd!!! SCR - The Soup Of The Day is Bread > The World of Vee
09/28/2013 at 20:57

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Once upon a time, my semi-local Ford dealer had a GT. A very rare car, admittedly, and especially so in my area. I forget what the actual MSRP on those was (somewhere around 150k I think?) but I do remember them asking over $300,000 for it. It sat there for many months.


Kinja'd!!! The World of Vee > SCR - The Soup Of The Day is Bread
09/28/2013 at 22:47

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yeah that's 200% the price of the car.

It might be worth that much now, but while the GT was rare...it wasn't specifically hard to find., I can't believe the dealer had the nerve


Kinja'd!!! webmonkees > The World of Vee
10/01/2013 at 01:01

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Most of my local Chevy dealers don't even list Corvette..

However, I did find an interesting alternative.

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Kinja'd!!! webmonkees > The World of Vee
10/01/2013 at 01:07

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If the price difference is more than a plane ticket and a few days off work, whatever work it is that you can take off to pick up a new Stingray.. well, that's what you do. And make that gouger cover warranty, after you've bolted in a dashcam, enginecam and a dragoncam.


Kinja'd!!! The World of Vee > webmonkees
10/01/2013 at 10:38

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no SS or Caprice/G8. No care.


Kinja'd!!! webmonkees > The World of Vee
10/01/2013 at 11:27

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Yeah,totally the wrong platform mentioned more for the novelty of test drive.

It would take a lot of internal upgrades to get to the proper status I would want. FWD doesn't help, but a CTS chassis would.

Sorry, didn't mean to go OT on this. Just, to me, that theoretical garage and millions-keeping self I like to plan fo r, what I would do while awaiting decent retail on the Vette.


Kinja'd!!! The World of Vee > webmonkees
10/01/2013 at 16:15

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nah dude I totally love playing that game. this is why I love the carmax site so much

it's just a bunch of well to do cars and lots of interesting ones at that