My understanding is some dealers are also not accepting EV units at port? So they are in a holding pattern or having them rerouted to other dealers?
There are some dealers that for some reason want EVERY EV. This morning I had to arrange a swap for a Sorento and the dealer wanted one of our EV6s back.
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Thatâs kind of why I locked a deal in early Sept. I donât pick it up until late Sept anyways, but itâs locked and car is off the website, etc.
Iâm more of 1 in the hand than 2 in the bush kind of personality. I couldâve gambled and prob found that 1 unicorn Taycan for like $592 a month, but it wouldnât have been the color/options I wanted and lots of unneeded stress. Iâm sure someone will post a Taycan deal that blows mine out of the water, but I donât have the time/energy/stress tolerance for that. Iâm good being in the top 98.5-99%, but I am looking forward to seeing a few of those 9/29-9/30 deals post.
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And I do think rn is a great time to move if youâre looking for something specific. If all you care about is number and youâre truly a skilled hacker, then you can wait. But rn a lot of smart dealers are clearing most of their excess EV inventory imo with strong deals, those dealers wonât be in this game come the end of the month.
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Totally agree.
Although not a skilled hacker, Iâm just looking for the bet sub-300 deal I can find, so Iâm ok with waiting.
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We can only hope theyâll start flowing towards the end of the month. Its been a total snooze fest so far.
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Is or isnât a great time?
With inventory drying up in places on certain models, itâs not a great time to be picky/specific.
There will be exceptions for sure but generally speaking I think the window to find something specific is rapidly closing or has closed.
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Itâll boil down to folks who make actionable offers and can sign in person at eom at dealeships that need to hit volume or whose accountant is screaming about floorplan.
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I think the show starts next week
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If you want an EV, really I felt the beginning of the month was better for the masses than now, before the inventory completely dries. Youâre starting to see it across the brands.
If you want a good deal on an EV you should have been contacting every dealer that exists at the start of the month. Itâs starting to dry, but there are still some good deals to be had. The more you wait, the more work itâs going to be. I think a small handful of desperate dealers will donate unicorns on 9/29-9/30, but those will be the outliers and luck will prob be involved.
Just my 2 cents. I was contacting dealers at a high velocity the day after Labor Day.
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you went from being the volvo guy to the honda guy to the kia guy?
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This is situational. If youâre good at this and your only goal is the lowest number, you should do very well. Sure, someone winds up with like a Nissan Leaf for 12 cents a month, but thatâs the outlier.
Personally, I wanted a 2025 Chalk Taycan (Ice or Volcanic Grey were backup plans) with specific packages in a certain trim with a maximum of 2k miles already on it. My search started the month with a very small target market, I had to move fast and I knew this.
Iâm interested to see how it shakes out.
ETA: and about half of the cars I wanted have already moved. Iâve continued following. No surprise, the dealers who werenât playing ball still have theirs.
No question about it - pay to play vehicles will always be different than nissans of the world.
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I will say dealers with mini SEs seem to have it rough. Only 1500 on top of 7500 in the calc and a rough MF. Only thing going is a 39 month residual match to 36
heavily depends on the make/model of what youâre going after i would think. many have tons of supply just sitting.
Maserati dealers would like a word with you with their grecale folgore inventory.
I just went to see what Lexus RZs were available, and the answer is a big fat 0 within 500 miles of Boston or San Francisco or Chicago or Atlanta.
Edit: seems thereâs a stop sale due to a recall.
what an inopportune time for Lexus to have to hold these off the market.
I tried really hard to neogotiate a Countryman SE in July before getting a Lexus RZ. They wouldnât budge beyond 4-5% off Msrp. Nope.
Just started this week looking for killer lease deal on a Silverado Or Seirra EV. Seems to be tons of inventory here in Ohio but no crazy Sub $500 leases.
Donât need being my 2021 w/3.0 Duramax is paid for. Just a sucker for crazy deal. Would pretty much park my 2021 except for possible longer trips.
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Same boat, looking for a Sierra ev or a hummer EV. I imagine the last week of the month weâll start getting some of those crazy deals.
For now itâs a game of chicken for the dealerships.
Nice thing about most hackrs though⌠is we can usually wait for the deals to come.