2006 tC mid-year price increase

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Jan 5, 2006 | 03:15 PM

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you mean $100 in addition to the extra 4 grand over Scion's "pure price" that most dealers are charging..? ha ha

Good god, where do you live that dealers are marking them up like that? That's insane!

DC Metro area.. lol. I thought it was happening in a lot of places. Hell, I've even heard of people buying used tC's for more than $17,000. !!!!

I live and sell them here in the Metro DC area. I'm in Springfield. The only dealer I know of that is marking them up is Ourisman as part of their "Ourisman Advantage" maintenance program. We all have processing fees, but the highest in this area is $299 at Tysons, Lustine and Arlington. The rest of us at right around $200.

There may be a few dealers adding a bunch of accessories to the car to run the price up, but that's a different matter. I disagree with that practice and order all of our cars stock.

If you're looking for a new tC without a bunch of extras, it doesn't take too much effort. I know there are some that are not on the program, but besides me, I know Alexandria and Miller are pretty decent and Waldorf on the other side of the river does a good job.

OK... now for one last shamless plug... Springfield Scion at www.kjscion.com

I've seen a couple tC's throughout dealers in the area, nearly bone stock, asking between 19 and 20 for the tC. People will pay it I guess. Meh.

Jan 5, 2006 | 04:35 PM

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all cars go up in price. 100 bucks aint that bad. Wasn't it 200 or 250 last time?

If I'm not mistaken, that price increase they added features. They made the 17's standard. They upgraded the base HU, and steering controls standard. Not sure if there were other things.

Jan 5, 2006 | 05:01 PM

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all cars go up in price. 100 bucks aint that bad. Wasn't it 200 or 250 last time?

If I'm not mistaken, that price increase they added features. They made the 17's standard. They upgraded the base HU, and steering controls standard. Not sure if there were other things.

the 17's were always standard, and there already was a price increase for the upgraded HU.

Jan 5, 2006 | 05:05 PM

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FWIW, I don't think $100 or even $300 reaches the rate of inflation. The car is still a bargain.

If inflation is 3%/year, then the 16000 car should cost about $480 more than last year.

I think this change makes the base price of the 5M car $16,300, right?

Jan 5, 2006 | 06:04 PM

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I think this change makes the base price of the 5M car $16,300, right?

I dunno about that.. base price for the 5 spd which I bought in July of 2004 was $16,465 and they've raised the price a bit since then.

Jan 5, 2006 | 06:40 PM

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i bought mine here in FL base at 17k w/o options....

Jan 5, 2006 | 06:42 PM

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I think this change makes the base price of the 5M car $16,300, right?

I dunno about that.. base price for the 5 spd which I bought in July of 2004 was $16,465 and they've raised the price a bit since then.

Sorry, I wasn't clear. My definition of base price doesn't include the shipping or handling charges.

I thought the car was $16,000 base priced when introduced, not including the shipping and prep charge, and will now be $16,300 + shipping and prep.

T

Jan 6, 2006 | 08:36 AM

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i hope they raise it more so people will stop buying them! there are too many as it is!! buy a civic people!!!!!

Jan 6, 2006 | 11:01 AM

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i hope they raise it more so people will stop buying them! there are too many as it is!! buy a civic people!!!!!

Jan 6, 2006 | 12:14 PM

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$100 isnt bad at all. Simple increase of inflation. Actually its less. I am in the military and every year we get a 3.5% pay raise to coincide with inflation. Thats about $80 pay raise a month. And I imagine most people that work in the real world get pay raises each year as well. So the car companys have to make up for this. I think someone could deal with $100 for a car.

Jan 6, 2006 | 07:25 PM

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Cliffy,

Are you the one and the same that I saw on EdmundsTownHall a while back? Gosh, I haven't been there in ages.

Glad my dealer only wanted about $50 to do the paperwork and I drove away with my tags. An hour of my time at the SoS office is worth 50 bones.

Anyway, if you are the one and the same, greetings. Well, even if you are not, greetings.

T
(Near the city where BrentwoodVolvo got his name)

Yes, its me. Jeez, I can't remember the last time I heard about BrentwoodVolvo! I finally got bored with Edmund's about 5 years ago.