svostang
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- Tom
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- 2015 Roush Stage 3
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After what seems like forever my awesome wife finally got her dream car, a 2017 at MSRP. No longer needing the standard four door family car since two of our kids now drive themselves around we were finally ready for her turn to have her own . After putting up with my obsession for the last 25 years of owning too many mustangs, getting our son a 03 and letting me get my dream of a Roush Stage 3 last year it was time to start her journey.
We worked with our local salesman/Friend, the plan was to order around November of this year and hopefully take delivery early 2017 when our current lease was up. Except the order went in on June 10th and what seems to be world record time the car got scheduled for build on July 11th and delivered to the dealer on July 28th. Since this was way too early I had to look hard at the numbers since there was also a $5000 ADM attached to the deal. Sadly the dealer came back with a higher finance rate than I expected and payment that was way too high having to also keep the leased car for a while. We signed the paperwork to lock the car down while in transit and take a few days to decide. After some hard discussions we decided to pass and work on the on securing another allocation later in the year.
I was really bummed having to disappoint my wife so I was secretly working with the dealer to try and get a better deal but they would not budge on the ADM and insisted they could not get any better financing, and if we did pass they were raising their ADM back to 10,000 on all 's. So the day before I was officially going to tell them no, it hit me that since we were pre approved with maybe I could find one at MSRP somewhere close by then jump on a cheap flight, drive it home and still come out ahead.
So with help from a friend we hit up cars.com and found over 250 17's somewhat close and hit the phones. We got laughed at from a few for even to dare asking if they were selling at MSRP and prices ranged from 5-20,000. Then I found one 3 hours away in Austin for MSRP, they verified my pre approval and also got the financing rate down almost half what my dealer was pushing. Car was black with convince package that she wanted but with white stripes and she wanted the stripe delete, I told her we could remove them if desired.
So I left a deposit over the phone and we drove down the next morning in my Roush to pick it up and had the best drive ever following each other home. After having it for a few weeks the stripes are now staying on as it totally makes the car stand out. Called my dealer and told them I wasn't taking the car and it's still sitting in the showroom with a 10k ADM. Sorry for the long post but just wanted to share our story, nothing makes me happier than seeing my wife smile everyday driving her car.
We worked with our local salesman/Friend, the plan was to order around November of this year and hopefully take delivery early 2017 when our current lease was up. Except the order went in on June 10th and what seems to be world record time the car got scheduled for build on July 11th and delivered to the dealer on July 28th. Since this was way too early I had to look hard at the numbers since there was also a $5000 ADM attached to the deal. Sadly the dealer came back with a higher finance rate than I expected and payment that was way too high having to also keep the leased car for a while. We signed the paperwork to lock the car down while in transit and take a few days to decide. After some hard discussions we decided to pass and work on the on securing another allocation later in the year.
I was really bummed having to disappoint my wife so I was secretly working with the dealer to try and get a better deal but they would not budge on the ADM and insisted they could not get any better financing, and if we did pass they were raising their ADM back to 10,000 on all 's. So the day before I was officially going to tell them no, it hit me that since we were pre approved with maybe I could find one at MSRP somewhere close by then jump on a cheap flight, drive it home and still come out ahead.
So with help from a friend we hit up cars.com and found over 250 17's somewhat close and hit the phones. We got laughed at from a few for even to dare asking if they were selling at MSRP and prices ranged from 5-20,000. Then I found one 3 hours away in Austin for MSRP, they verified my pre approval and also got the financing rate down almost half what my dealer was pushing. Car was black with convince package that she wanted but with white stripes and she wanted the stripe delete, I told her we could remove them if desired.
So I left a deposit over the phone and we drove down the next morning in my Roush to pick it up and had the best drive ever following each other home. After having it for a few weeks the stripes are now staying on as it totally makes the car stand out. Called my dealer and told them I wasn't taking the car and it's still sitting in the showroom with a 10k ADM. Sorry for the long post but just wanted to share our story, nothing makes me happier than seeing my wife smile everyday driving her car.
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