Bubba2

By the way, I did get the dealer cost on the ES 350 from the APA. This is what they told me:

Cost price of vehicle: $36,728

Premium Package: $2,803

PDI: $1775

Now all of you go out and buy APA memberships because I'm probably not supposed to share that with you! ;)

Bubba,

Your lucky that Ottawa even had a $500 cash rebate, Toronto hasn't have one sine like January I think.

I think it is Ontario and possibly Canadian wide. Go to the following link:

http://www.lexus.ca/lexus/experience/en/ho...xus_Cash_Credit

Of course, the dealer would probably not tell you about it and just assign it to himself.

Lexusfreak,

"Second class citizen" are my words. What he said was that I wouldn't have access to their loaners. I hope they would at least stick me on one of their shuttles! He also said that they have a motto, "Our customers are first", which means that if they have a part or job that needed to be done that if there are two clients, they will service "their" client first.

It might be interesting to hear what is available in London but I guess it will take longer that way. You would think the deals coming out of T.O. and MTL would be better, being bigger, with higher volume. I contacted, through the Web, the dealer in Laval (North of MTL) but his offer was worse than the local one from Bel-Air!

It's getting late in the day so the $500 March incentive will go away in a few hours. Hopefully next month it will still be there but it could disappear.

I forgot to mention. The $500 Canadian rebate ends today. Does anybody know if the rebate will continue in April or be replaced with something else?

Thanks.

Hi,

I'm a newbie to the forum, in need of some help. I'm looking to purchase an ES 350, with Premium Package, all-season mats and cargo liner.

I'm in Ottawa. There are only two dealers here. One is Bel-Air Lexus. The other is Tony Graham. There may be one in Gatineau. The guy from Bel-Air has offered me $49,618, all inclusive (car, gas tax, a/c tax, freight/PDI, PST, and GST). The retail price of all this off the Lexus.ca website would be $51,750. So, this is only $2,132 off. The $500 rebate would be assigned to the dealer, so they are really only losing $1632. The guy from Tony Graham has refused to discuss pricing by email unless I come in and talk to him. However, he says he will match whatever price I come up with from some one else (of course).

I've contacted a broker in Montreal to see about getting in a car from the U.S. Although the retail price looks a lot lower U.S., once you factor in all the standard features they put into the Canadian models, the exchange rate (which is starting to creep up again), and the broker's fee (he wants $2000), the 6.1% not-made-in-North-America tax (or whatever you call it), it looks like I will only net $2000 off the retail list price and whatever "deal" he can get.

I've read on the Toyota site that when you buy from the U.S. they will honor the warranty, however, you lose a few things, such as road-side assistance (unless you break down in the U.S.).

The Tony Graham dealer basically said that if I buy from another dealer, his dealer will treat me like a second-class citizen. I won't have access to their loaner cars and will be at the end of the line for service.

I'm fed up with the arrogance! I just want a good deal. I'll travel to Montreal or Toronto to get that deal if I have to.

If somebody has any ideas, please let me know. Thanks.