HELP!: Thinking of buying a New TDI Golf

[RoninTech]

Spent the weekend looking at cars with the wife. We both liked the TDI golf. Was just blown away when we were told that for a loaded GLS (demo with 250km, couple of chips/scratches, only missing option was side airbag) the best he could do for an all inclusive price was $29,800 Canadian. This is in Alberta, so no PST and he calulated GST at 6%.

Is this what I should be looking at paying for one of these or was the salesman feeding us a line?

Cheers

 

[wanders]

Welcome to TDI club!

Don't know about exchange rates. If you are looking used, and I gather you are, see classifieds here, lookat what's up for sale, and if you home in on the car you are thinking of, have a forum member check it out.

Insist on maintainance records! WHat oil was used and when?
What else has been done?? Or not??

 

[RoninTech]

Welcome to TDI club!

Don't know about exchange rates. If you are looking used, and I gather you are, see classifieds here, lookat what's up for sale, and if you home in on the car you are thinking of, have a forum member check it out.

Insist on maintainance records! WHat oil was used and when?
What else has been done?? Or not??

Thanks for the welcome. Actually we are only interested in new. Just wondering if that price was reasonable or not.

 

[TornadoRed]

Spent the weekend looking at cars with the wife. We both liked the TDI golf. Was just blown away when we were told that for a loaded GLS (demo with 250km, couple of chips/scratches, only missing option was side airbag) the best he could do for an all inclusive price was $29,800 Canadian. This is in Alberta, so no PST and he calulated GST at 6%.

Is this what I should be looking at paying for one of these or was the salesman feeding us a line?

I assume this is for the 5-speed manual transmission.
I looked here:
http://www.vw.ca/vwca/models/pricing/0,2247,45,00.html

and it appears that your dealer is asking close to the MSRP or whatever they call "list price" in the GWN.

Have them fix those scratches -- a new car should look like a new car until you scratch it yourself.

 

[Troy909]

If you want one in the US you better hurry. I just bought one of the last ones around! It was a lot of work finding it too. I paid $22,310 for a 2006 Golf GLS TDI, four door. The car is black and auto which I did not want but felt that I needed to compromise if I wanted a Golf.
Good luck.

 

[RoninTech]

If you want one in the US you better hurry. I just bought one of the last ones around! It was a lot of work finding it too. I paid $22,310 for a 2006 Golf GLS TDI, four door. The car is black and auto which I did not want but felt that I needed to compromise if I wanted a Golf.
Good luck.

No, I'm in Alberta and there's still lots available up here. Buddy at work hooked me up with carcostcanada.com. Was able to find out what the dealer wholesale price is. It also told me that one of the local dealers is willing to give $1200 CDN over their cost. This works out to them making just under 5 % on the car. That seemed fair so we pulled the trigger on a brand new (~0 miles) Silver TDI GLS Golf 5 speed with every option. Ended up getting a much better deal than what the original dealer told me he couldn't do. We pick it up on Tuesday. Gotta love the internet . It seems that the dealerships count on people not knowing what the actual costs involved are up here and are willing to wait for those that don't. Fortunately if you approach them with the real numbers they become reasonable and give you a much better deal. The $40 membership to carcost canada translated to about a $1000 saving over what they would originally do. Highly recommended to other Canadians.

Cheers,
Ronin