also wouldn’t you say the trunk space is a bit lacking?
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And very ramshackle in terms of organization. How much 91 goes with how much 87?
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I wonder if he will downgrade to a 5 series because his trunk is so big.
I think it’s a gorgeous, badass car.
We need more of them out there
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looks good, performs good, does not sound very good for an 85k car. Probably needs catless downpipes or something… same problem with the m550i, x3 m40i, etc etc.
Your straw man argument doesn’t make sense. This isn’t a claim that can’t be substantiated in an ad like saying it’s “the best deal in the country”, it’s a promotional advertisement with false financial details being misrepresented. It’s clearly not a typo when the deal featured is wildly different from what the dealer can offer, that is fraud. Period.
In Your first post you remark you aren’t defending the dealer as you don’t know what happened, now your position is they made a mistake and couldn’t take it down fast enough. What? How do you know that? I happen to work in digital marketing and can speak factually to this type of situation. If you put out a promotional offer you 1. Must legally substantiate the offer is legitimate and 2. If there is a mistake, pull the ad immediately or face possible FTC/FCC penalty. There is no legitimate reason for it to take a week to pull a false ad.
Finally, if you find it tacky that this guy sent a demand letter to force them to honor the deal, that’s fine and you’re entitled to your opinion. Clearly their lawyer, having reviewed the facts, saw something that suggested it was better for them to lose thousands of dollars on this lease than the alternative. On the other hand, for people who see these ads and go to the dealer to be bait and switched, what is their recourse? Is that ok to you? Where’s the line?
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Let’s just hope they didn’t ship him a regular Stelvio. Oops…we did it again 
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I want this, wow!
Very well played 
Quirk Chevrolet from MA is doing the similar marketing…
They are showing $16000 discount on available Chevy Bolts and they have aroun 15+ VINs listed online. And when you call or email them, they say they don’t have a single Bolt available and hence can’t comment on the pricing. This has been going on for more than a week now…
I’m saying, often people who buy old Alfas and Maseratis, are not the most financially sound people. Not referring to OP. Obviously because its a FCA car and they are definitively not known for reliability.
Sounds like you’re hurt cause you haven’t been able to get a deal like this by whatever means. But that’s just my opinion. We’re all entitled to our opinions.
@imduder congrats on your purchase. Enjoy your beast of a vehicle man!
This is like people who buy mattresses at Costco, use them for 6 years, then return them before the 7 year warranty expires because “hey! The deal says no questions asked!” I was at Costco on January 2 and there were 3 families returning not just Christmas trees, but entire baskets of home Christmas decorations. Tacky? Way beyond tacky. Who pays for this? The rest of us. How many people have bought alfas from that dealership in the the last several months. I’m guessing not enough to pay the rent and franchise fees and interest on the inventory. So they’re not going to last long.
Sending demand letters… Whatever. I’ll bet he’s an attorney and loves sticking it to people. By the op’s own story, they fixed the ad within about a week, long before the deal actually happened. So yeah, that is a dick move. A demand letter threatens litigation. Have you ever been sued? It’s a huge threat. That makes you a dick when you could have just looked for a different car.
Everybody is entitled to their own opinions. This is such a new age mentality though of “get whatever I can take no matter who it hurts”
It’s a gorgeous car
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I’ve seen so many car deals the dealer can’t honor. Every single promo I’ve ever seen says something like “while supplies last” or specific stock numbers or includes military discounts and other things most people don’t qualify for. They could have said sorry that car was sold. But threatened with expensive and time consuming litigation they seem to have eaten the loss. Dick move but yeah he got the car. I guess that’s all we care about anymore.
@imduder - Congrats on your deal. Don’t listen to the haters. Please post pics once you get the car.
Lots of assumptions about a transaction people know very little about. Few clarifications:
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The dealership did not “fix” the ad. The advertised deal was for a stated period of time. It remained up during that entire period of time. It only came down when the “deal” had expired. I tried to accept the deal with about a week left. Dealership did nothing to correct during that week.
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The ad was associated with a specific vehicle. That vehicle had not been sold. Indeed, from what I was able to gather, the dealership had not sold any 2019 Stelvio Quads between posting the ad and me trying to accept it.
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This was not some forgotten footnote on a vast website. The deal showed up on the main page, specials tab, and in connection with a specific vehicle.
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The dealer had multiple stories that changed. It claimed the deal was for a 2019 Stelvio Quad without any options – despite only having one 2019 Stelvio Quad in stock and linking the deal to that vehicle. It claimed the qualifying vehicle had been sold – despite its one 2019 Stelvio Quad remaining in stock and remaining linked to the deal. It claimed that this was “a national ad by Alpha Romeo” – something that should have made the deal easier to honor and almost certainly was false.
Again, draw your own conclusions. And if you soon see someone driving a red quad around town, feel free to give them a thumbs up or the bird based on those conclusions.
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Don’t sweat it, no one is accusing you of being an Honest Abe, even though you literally stole this car. 
The only comparison here would be Costco advertising a mattress for X price and then when customers arrive to buy, them saying oops the ad is wrong but we can sell it to you for Y. Once again, it is fraud. If the dealer has to resort to that because sales are slow, that’s on them and they are accountable. You’re basically arguing that dealers run misleading ads all the time so it is what it is and too bad and somehow OP is a bum for taking them to the mat, yet that kind of dealer behavior is why LH exists in the first place. No one is saying standard procedure should be to threaten to sue a dealer frivolously but good for OP in this instance.
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OP… You da man! My hero!
Seem like there a lot of bruised vaginas…acting as if the dealership hasnt/wouldn’t take advantage of a customer that didn’t know anything about car leasing…
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Basically that’s true. Hence the term “caveat emptor” and my examples of dealership hyperbole. Am I defending a deliberately misleading ad? No way. Do I think it’s ever cool to go around threatening suing people? No, that’s what complete jerks do. Nobody, and I mean nobody likes the guy who threatens to sue. So yeah, pretend this is all awesome and what not until you run until this same kind of attitude and you’re on the other end having a lawyer demand you give them something or suffer through expensive and soul sucking litigation. Seriously, threatening to SUE over an online advertisement IN ANOTHER STATE?! That’s ridiculous. The guy suffered no harm other than a 10 second phone call. But he sure went to amazing lengths to follow up even after being told the deal was a mistake or not available for whatever reason.
I bet this isn’t the first time he’s sent a “demand letter.” How many of those have you sent in your lifetime?