Evan (Vogon)

are deals to be had yet on a3s? my local dealer has only sold 1 and has 4 on the lot

akt

There are no lease deals on A3's and they will be selling at MSRP.... good financing though 2.9% up to 36 months and 4.9% up to 60 months.

AlexTTQ

So unless you pay cash for the car it might change less that $20 in your payments....

crew219

I'm getting $150+ invoice on my special order

The Turtle

only 543 sold nationwide so far, that only a tad over 10 per state in 6 weeks, pretty pad.

My dealership has only sold one as well, 6 others sitting on the lot.

vplaza

And they only started selling in late April, so that's 689 units in a little over six weeks.

I thought they were only planning to sell 6,000 this year. If so, they're already 10% into their goal with just under eleven months to go.

Is that really that bad?

April

and that most people don't even know the car exists yet, I think they should meet their goals.

In the end though, Alex is right, even if the dealer makes no money on the deal, it's only about $20 a month in payments. And although a penny saved is a penny earned, if somebody is worried about $20 a month on the purchase or lease payments, then they shouldn't be looking at any car in this price range.

Also keep in mind that the salesperson makes about 20% of that $1400 profit margin - and are on 100% commission with no base pay. They sell anywhere between 12 to 20 cars a month, depending on time of year and inventory. If they are a factory trained ABS (Audi Brand Specialist), they must take unpaid time for training. An average deal takes between 3 and 8 hours when you add in multiple visits with test drives, phone calls, follow-up, perhaps doing a dealer trade or ordering the car, and finally the delivery. That's not a lot when you consider many salespeople must work weekends, evenings, and holidays - often 6 days a week and 60 to 80 hrs, to make those numbers. So whenever the average person has time off, the salesperson is working. If they don't do that, they don't meet you (or anyone else since the rest of the world works more conventional hours), and they don't have a chance to make a deal. Most Audi salespeople who are any good, graduate to selling Porsche, simply because they can make a decent living doing that. Selling Audis means barely scraping by unless you are willing to have absolutely no life. I know of 5 crack people who have left Audi sales, 2 who have moved to other higher end brands, and another 2 who are looking to get out.

Beyond that, the remaining profits go back into the dealer to improve the facility, hire new staff, train staff, and perhaps supply perks like loaners, etc. Often dealers will hold back the best perks for customers who purchased at that store.

April

Special conditions? Know somebody. Got deal in writing signed by manager?

PD Performance

With barely any advertising.. I'd say they are on par.

And the sales numbers.. they said 6000 cars this year.. did they mean model year though or actual calender year?

crew219

No not really . . . that's what they offered me. New dealership . . . trying to go volume