Thought about getting one when they first came out, but dealers were not selling much off msrp. Can anyone tell me what % they have been able to knock off the msrp price????

Thanks so much.

 

It all depends on the dealership and location. I ended up with MSRP -7% -600

 

It really depends on your market area. In the SF Bay area, at the end of April I ended up at $600 over invoice for a loaded GL that started as a factory order for me. Less loaded, sitting on the lot for awhile, maybe at or below invoice.

 

I ordered an 08 320CDI at 2K off MSRP

 

How did u get 2k off? Pricing isn't even out yet.

 

Did they have pricing for the '08, or did you just get the $2K off, regardless of what the price is when it is manufactured? If you saw actual pricing, who's your dealer? Mine doesn't seem to have any '08 pricing info yet.

 

Got $500 over invoice - 68K - MSRP, 63495 - Invoice, Final - 64K

 

Just depends on the area. The GL is one of the hottest selling products right now, but if you're willing to haggle and dealer wants to deal, you can come out with a good deal. I would say most of the time $2k off MSRP is about the most any will go...unless you have some like we did and were able to knock $4k off MSRP (courtesy cars for a golf tourney).

 

My dealer didn't have pricing yet, but offered 2K off of whatever the MSRP comes in at. I don't expect much of a change in pricing on the 08 compared to the 07.

 

Two largest MB dealers are located here. They are selling lot inventory for $1,000 or so less than dealer invoice.

 

Dead invoice

 

I don't get it.

 

$6K off MSRP (bought it through my credit union). I couldn't get the local dealer to budge off MSRP.

 

What is not to get? I paid invoice for the car. Told them I would buy a Range Rover out of town instead. After about 10 minutes I walked out with the car for invoice.

 

Did you have a trade? I got $1500 off sticker, which was not great, but they gave me a bunch of money -- more than I was looking for -- for my trade. And since the car had to be built, and they wanted the trade in right then, I drove one their cars -- 2006 R350 -- for two and half months for free as part of the deal.

In the end, I got exactly the car I wanted, with pretty good service from the dealer to meet my needs. But as for the money part of the deal, I doubt it was spectacular.

 

I get it now. You were indicating "dead-on invoice price." I thought you were making a comment on the invoice price itself, not what you paid.

 

This could possibly be a new thread but you did bring it up here so I was wondering; in my breif experience driving the R, the thing that turned me off was the styling cues - it just didn't excite me. My biggest reason for looking at it at all was the unbelievable financing they were offering (I guess those guys aren't selling?)

So I was wondering if after two and a half months you found the GL just much nicer to drive? I had found the R's driving position too low, and that it didn't have the solid on-the-road feel I get from the GL. To me it felt like they'd tried to make a six-seat sports car, or maybe something half station-wagon and half mini-van. There was just something "not right" about it.

After a much longer term drive (you drove that longer than I've even had my GL!) what was your impression of driving it?

 

Since Steve brought up the R, I wish we could get the 2nd row captains chairs in the GL like the R.

 

Ooo ...

 

Be nice so kids would sit separate but..........for family limo drivers (like me) that would mean one less passenger capacity. I drive with 7 in it almost every weekend.

 

I couldn't agree more with what you have said. Driving the R was like sitting in a hole in a cave. The seats were low and it was very hard to see out of the back, with a small rear window and huge blind spots in the back rear quarters. The power with the GL 320 is much better than the 278 hp V6 in the R. The fit and finish and seating position in the GL is WAY superior to the R I drove. But the second row captain's chairs were jammin'! The R gets terrible gas mileage compared to the GL 320 as well. I suppose my impressions would have been different if I had driven an R 320 CDI with comparable equipment to my GL 320 which is fully loaded except for Distronic and Keyless go....but I doubt it. I did not find the styling offensive and sort of like the rounded aspects at the rear, and I loved the easy entry and exit afforded by the HUGE rear doors....

I could drive an R class, but there are other things (like my GL) that I like much better. Let me say this: the R is a more preferable car for my needs than the 2006 LX 470 I traded in.....

 

I nearly did the same with my 99 LX. It was really a tough call. The LX has 217000+ miles on it and still runs like a champ every time, but the Kelly Blue Book value was severely affected by how much gas was in the tank, and I dreaded having to replace the air ride to the tune of 70-90% of the value of the vehicle.

Like I said, the most attractive thing about the R was its financing, to me. I just thought it looked, I dunno, like an overgrown station wagon.

 

We did not have a trade.