If you are not in a hurry, then you just wait and “jump” on a deal. Be ready with your Tier 1 credit & MSDs. That is how I got into the Maserati deal – I was just waiting (I didn’t even know about this forum then). Like I said in my previous posts, through some crazy sequence of events, I ended up driving my dad’s old 2008 Camry for 9 months (previous 20 years my daily driver are Porsches) so “not in a hurry” means different things to different people.
However, everything is negotiable and if you are not in a hurry, good things happen.
There is another thread on this forum where somebody @mplin got a pretty good deal on a Maserati with some negotiation (Anaheim Hills). It wasn’t the same as the $488/mo but he got ALL the options he wanted and dollar-for-dollar, it was close enough to still be a good deal. The $ off MSRP is really what makes most deals work.
With the F-Type, nobody wanted to do the @atomhawk deal. Anaheim Hills Jag was saying maybe $1-2k off if we come in but not $9,000 so we just waited since we were not really in a hurry (our motto is “the cars will always be there”) Todd @ Rusnak was on vacation (I think) so he just saw our request in Jan and he said he could do it. My brother ended up getting it the next day. I don’t really know much about the Jags, specifically the F-Type so we don’t know if there will be rebates or deals or anything. All we knew is that if we could get $9k or $10 off MSRP, we can get the payment to around $439.73 + tax