Purchase time.

[adrian36]

Today is the day. I will try to haggle my way through and into a Marauder. I have to also drop my 02 Must. GT convert. Love that car but not parctical. Thanks for the pricing tips. I will post what I paid for it.

Adrian

[TripleTransAm]

Eagerly awaiting your post describing the big ***** eaging grin you'll have pasted on your face. :up:

[jgc61sr2002]

Adrian - Good luck. Hope it works out for you.:D

[adrian36]

Test drove the 04 MM. What a ride. Very aggressive and good of the line start. I can see what a chip can do. I had the price for $28,830. No down payment and 5.49 finance for 60 months. But I would have been two grand upside down on my 02 Mustang. I will wait to sell the Mustang on the street.

[Logan]

5.4 over 60? Ack!

Peoplefirst.com give you 4.09% over 60. 4.9% over 72.

$28k is too high too. Easily available at $26.5k...

Definately sell your stang privately to get maximum return, dealers just rape you on trade in to cover their costs on reselling. It's never worth it. It's just peeing away money.

[adrian36]

Where could I get 04 MM at 26.5k??? I would need A plan. I got the car at 28k thats less than Xplan. Give me pointers please??

[Logan]

See, on marauder's it's about dealer cost, not about plans. There are so many dealer's desparate to unload them, they'll sell them at or below their cost to move them.

I can get you done in Dallas for 26.5k no problem. I got my '03 for less than $26k and didn't use any of my plan pins at all. I'm sure others will post up as well. I see at least 2 or 3 links a week to dealers running pricing in the 26.5-27k range.

Sure, you might have to travel, but what's a couple hundred dollar plane ticket and some gas money to save a couple grand? :)

Heck, getting yourself a AARP member number is good for $500 (...and yes, I'm only 30. No you don't need to be over 50 to be an aarp associate member). Best $12 I ever spent.

[ADE 1000]

Originally posted by Logan


Heck, getting yourself a AARP member number is good for $500 (...and yes, I'm only 30. No you don't need to be over 50 to be an aarp associate member). Best $12 I ever spent.

Thank you Logan. You may have just saved me $500. I am shopping for a 2004 in the Chicago area and the best I can do so far is $28,254. I guess I will have to keep working on them.

[bigslim]

Adrian, what city are you in? I will send you a private message concerning price.

[adrian36]

I live in Miami Florida. Any tips you can throw my way I would appreciate. I am mostly interested in a 2004. How do you retrieve private messages. I hope the forum emails me how.

Thanks

[joflewbyu2]

logan, you got $500 aarp discount?

[tta197]

Logan, I'm currently looking for an 04. That $26.5 sounds too good to be true. Are you a dealer? If so I might be interested, even if I have to travel. I've been offered $28K minus $10.6 for my trade-in (2000 Grand Marquis LS w/33k cloth int.) Let me know.

[junehhan]

If anyone is looking to finance, Ford is offering 0% for 60 months, and 1.9% for 72 months. When you consider how much interest you have to pay with a rate between 4-5%, it's much cheaper to just take the 0 or 1.9% and forget about the $3000 rebate. I didn't get the $3000 rebate and opted for the 0% financing for 72 months. I would have done 60 months, but you can't beat 72 month financing when there is no interest involved.

I didn't get much off on my MM though, because they appear to be a hot commodity at this time in Cincinnati, and i'm not willing to buy from a dealership in a totally different region............

[junehhan]

Just to clear up, the 0% for 72 month deal was only offered for a couple days as it apparantly was a minor slipup as it was never intended to be offered like that. It actually took my dealership a couple hours arguing with Ford Credit to make them honor what was advertised for a very short time..............

[2003Marauder]

Other items to consider:
One, in most states you only pay sales tax on the trade difference. Example: Cost =30,000 Trade=20,000 you only pay sales tax on 10,000. NO TRADE and you pay sales tax on the full 30,000. Make sure you figure that in. In TN that's 20,000x.0625 which means I must sell my car for 1,250 more than trade allowance, plus advertising, plus hassle of showing car, giving out personal phone number and potential liability if there are any problems with car after the sale. I seldom recommend selling yourself unless you have a specialty car or highly modified car--especially if you car is out of warranty. Don't need Joe Schmoe calling me at work or calling my boss telling me what a lousy rotten SOB I was for selling him a POS and demanding his money back or else! Let a used car dealer handle that. In most cases, trade it in and forget about it and enjoy your new car.

Also, as stated above, it's better to take the 0% for 60 months than the 3,000 rebate.

[Blue03]

Another thing to try is an Mercury Owner Loyalty thing. A photocopy of my wifes 2000 Mystique LX registration was worth $500 off on My 03 MM Deal. Whinning about paying WA state sales tax on the value of the rebates knocked another $500 off my price. Yep the State Dept of Revenue confirmed they nailed me for 9.1% sales tax on the value of any rebates ($4,000 Ford Cash + $500 AARP + $500 Loyalty). My deal was written up at $30k minus $5k in rebates plus tax and title. My MM had been on the lot since March. I financed with a local Credit Union @4.5% for 72 Months. After I'd done that a guy at work told me he found 3.9% for 60 Months at eloan.com. Checking tonight it looks like eloan is at 4.25% for 60 months. Hope this helps anyone trying to buy.

[jgc61sr2002]

2003Marauder - It is the same deal in N.Y. The only thing is that you have to pay sales tax on the rebate. :(