Welcome to the forum, but you simply did not provide enough detail for anyone to accurately judge your out-the-door price.

Is that out-the-door car price or does it also include Tax, Tags and License/Registration?

Are there any other options besides the ones listed above?

Here is my suggested metric - since taxes and registration vary from location to location cite your discount off MSRP for car-only. Folks have reported $2000 to $6000 off MSRP on 2005s (pre-tax, pre-tags, pre-registration). Read the past few months of threads in this sub-forum and see what regional data points you can pick up.

 

No offense, but I completely disagree. The dealer I purchased from in Maryland took me on a pre-planned ~10 mile loop when I test-drove my RX-8. 100 miles would be 10 test-drives or 20 5-mile test-drives. The dealer in Maryland had posters with diagrams explaining how they wanted potential customers to experience the car's handling so they sought out 1) cork-screw freeway on-ramps, 2) roads with tight turns, 3) opportunities for brake testing, etc, etc. I think they even had a term for it - the Zoom-Zoom Test Drive or something.

100 miles is not outrageous or a danger sign. A car with 3 miles on the odometer could have been moved back and forth across the dealer lot 20 times and flooded 10 times. If I remember right, new (never titled) cars can be returned to the factory if they have less than 500 miles (a friend of mine did this with his Saturn SL1).

That one dealership ought to discontinue that practice and do what every other dealership in the country does - use retired folks. I've seen dealerships in Idaho, Washington, Oregon and New York all using retired folks (often retired couples for the farther trades). These folks don't push the gas pedal hard enough to crack an egg, they certainly don't wail on the cars.

Our local giant, all-brands, mega-dealership (Simmon-Rockwell) uses dedicated drivers just to trade between their lots that are 5 to 35 miles apart. They don't use the salesmen. I had them trade a car from the next town for me so I could test drive it during my lunch and the salesman brought up how we'd have to wait for one of the staff drivers to make the swap. I was curious so I inquired about them. He replied they're all 'fossils', not quick about anything, but there had never been even a single complaint of abuse or damage.

endolinz, you can try to get better price based on 100 miles on the odometer, but I wouldn't bet on it. Dealerships give discounts on their 'dealer demos' that have 3,000 miles, not cars that have merely been test-driven a few times.

I would say if you can get a bit below invoice for a never-titled car with full warrenty you're getting a fine deal.

I would also suggest that the dealership will be more interested in moving the car right before the end of the year to get it on this year's books. I don't think they'll be in a hurry to drop the price on Jan 1 due to the 'extra year' because that age may really depend on when the received the car rather than passing Jan 1.