Tips on Buying Cars: price, toyota tacoma 4x4, max mileage


Question
QUESTION: hi danny i just got a price for a toyota tacoma 4x4 from a dealer on a reg. cab the msrp was 19,305 after the add on it was 21,795 the price they gave me was 20,096 is that a good price or should i only pay msrp the second truck was an extra cab sl the price was a little higher than msrp im not sure if these are good deals can you help me please thanks frank

ANSWER: Are you saying that they are charging over sticker price/MSRP for a truck. Where do you live and what is your Zip code?

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QUESTION: i live in vernon nj 07461 yes msrp was 19,305 after destination charges ect the sticker price was 21,795......on the extra cab truck they quoted me a price of 24,275 witch also was higer than msrp and a little lower than sticker price

Answer
Hello Frank, To keep things straight in my head, when I say MSRP, thats the bottom price on the window sticker, it will include all adds and freight, it's a total figure, Then I need to know what they are giving you off of that price. I did a search within a 200 mile radius of your town and found much beter pricing. Cut and paste.

http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/searchresults.jsp?lastStartYear=2008&num_records=2

If it were me, I would consider how long I would travel and maybe go to a bigger town/dealer, someone that's into volume not gross profit. Now that you have seen what you want I would email some of these other dealers and see what they can do for me. You can tell the larger dealers by how many 2010's they have in stock, it's in there add. Some of these guys seem like they have way to much 2010 inventory, Im with BMW and we don't have hardly any 2010's

I have some friends with Toyota here, Send me what options/trans/equip you want on your truck and I will call them and find out the skinny.