I've been looking off and on the past couple months. I had been looking at BMW XI models first, but couldn't agree on the number crunching with them, they kept lowballing me on my trade because it was a Lexus and they only sold BMWs.
I'm under pressure more from myself than the dealership - I can still back out if I want to, nothing has been signed and no down payment has been placed yet. However, we start an extremely hectic month throughout January and into February. I have some training to do and to oversee, and a major implementation going live at the end of the month, where I'll have minimum 60-70 hour weeks. Training starts on Monday, so if I don't end up sealing the deal this weekend I probably won't have time again until late February / early March. Do you think I will be able to get a significantly better deal by waiting, or will it still be about the same? Since the '09s probably won't be out until later in the year, since the car is still in high demand (AWD in Northern PA is always in demand), it's a very popular style/color combo, etc. - do you think I can do any better then? If the answer is not really/maybe or anything like that, it seems to me like it'd be worth it to go for it now. However, if it's going to be a significant difference between now and then, it might be worth the wait.
There is one other dealer within a 100 mile radius of here, I plan on sending their internet sales manager a message tonight asking what their quote would be. They're probably 2 hours or so away, but could be useful in negotiations here. I agree with you that a luxury car is never an emergency...
Haha yeah, whatever works. This car does not have the nav package, but I double checked the numbers on lexus.com and they still match up. With Xenons and the Luxury/Premium package, it MSRPs at around $36k... So how good of a deal is $3k off MSRP?