[VWsalesguyVA]

Build a Touareg 2

 

[EARL97850]

I'll head there now and create something and see how much damage I can create.

Cya

 

[VWsalesguyVA]

by the time I was done I went from 42K all the way to $60K!

 

[VWZach]

57K, equiped like my V8. Not too bad, when you can get all the incentives

 

[Vegas Matt]

Man, you guys must like all the high-zoot stuff. Mine was just shy of $50k.

Still not ponying up for one right now though

Matt

 

[canon_mutant]

Watch those lease rates . . .

I was just quoted .0035 MF and 45% residual on a TDI. That's an 8.5% APR on a 36 month lease.

I told em to think again . . .

Even if they fat fingered it and meant .0025 that's still 6% and Audi offers 3.5% right now.

Plus that residual ought to be 50% on a 36 month diesel. They're trying to punish the TDI with gas guzzler lease rates.

Still waiting on finance purchase rates.

 

[sundowner]

$52,893 for me

 

[nickm]

$57 for me...

 

[canon_mutant]

Mine came out to $56363 pretty loaded. Sadly, if these rates I posted above don't improve, I may have to look at one without air down around $52K plus did up some more down pmt. At 8.5%, you end up paying over $8K interest on a 36 month lease. Ridiculous.

 

[nickm]

8K interest plus a roughly 10K price difference between a discounted V8 and a new V6 TDI = $18K...that $18K buys a lot of fuel,...go buy up a discounted '08 V8 for low $40s and stick that throttle through the floorboards!!

 

[siberian]

53,324 which means in today's economy one should be able to get this for about 43k plus 3 grand to ship it to AK since the Anchorage dealer is a waste of time.

siberian

 

[nickm]

53,324 which means in today's economy one should be able to get this for about 43k

As much as I'd like to believe this, with only 900 of them in the country and a near 30MPG I highly doubt VW is going to discount them by a penny....I'm sure there's enough pent up demand to sell them out. There are less than 1 per dealer. Also we can play "build your own" as much as we want, as far as I'm aware all 900 of the '09s are identically built.

It would have made 0 sense for them to even bother importing them if they were just going to subsidize them by 10K each...

 

[v10treg]

I wish VWOA would go ballz out and carpet bomb us with the V6TDI's. But realistically, I guess their market research shows that demand may not be that high for a $50k+ loaded V6TDI.... That's too bad.

 

[canon_mutant]

Well, and sadly, it lowers the demand even more if you're going to rape the customer on lease and finance rates. 8.5% on a lease and I've got bullet proof credit. Who in their right mind is going to pay $8K in interest on a 3 year lease? :shock:

Also, I still don't know if I ordered one today if it would be a 2009 or a 2010 and neither does either dealer I've talked to so it's hard to know what I'd be willing to pay.

The idea that a "true VW enthusiast" would just pay whatever it takes . . . well, I guess I'm just not that enthusiastic apparently.

 

[nickm]

I'm guessing with only 900 of them around, they probably have 900 cash buyers lined up with no need to give out good lease or finance rates. If your credit is good and you don't have the cash just buy the thing outright and pay the 2% or less on your line of credit...sell it in 36 mo and I'm sure you'll get 50-60% of what you paid for it.

 

[siberian]

Nickm, an apartment on the West End can list for 7 millions,a Van Gogh can be appraised for 20 million, a VW can have an MSRP price of 53k, but at the end of the day it's worth what the consumer will pay. Their 900 vehicles can join the thousands of MBs, Porsches and others that are rusting away on Long Beach because dealers can't sell them and as people like me will never pay 53k for a VW nor 2 million for a Bugatti Veron.

So my take to a dealer is, do you want to sell a car for 43 or have it stay on your lot for the 53k dream customer? On 43 they're still making a pile of money. Just my 2 cents.

siberian

 

[EARL97850]

WOW, all the bells & whistles add up fast. My wife happen to look at the monitor while I was building the thing and she was enthusiastic about the TDI finally arriving. She then noticed how much the price had already climbed to and wondered how the he** I could get up that high and not even half way through the build.

Vegas Matt was right in his build....just the bare bones of things can keep it under 50K. I don't think I'll be putting anymore thought into getting a TDI Touareg.

Cya

 

[siberian]

Should have clarified, my option was for a V8 not a TDI. With the price of diesel here it doesn't make any sense. Also since I've never owned a diesel and don't know anything about them and dealers aren't a option. I chose the V8, with air suspension, tow and mats. I wanted the parking feature but not to the point of buying 3 other needless things costing over 2 grand, I don't need the Nav package I have a Garmin iQue 3600 that works great, ditto for the CD and radio that will be ripped out for an VAR unit that plays MP3s etc.

Keep it simple and name your price. They won't deal, others (manufacturers) will.

siberian

 

[Black Adder]

I built it as a comparison to the 09 I bought here, funny thing was, it speced out price wise at 56,443 for the exact same everything I bought here and here I only paid 52,347 here plus 130% in Indonesian taxes.

 

[canon_mutant]

Trade in values have gone back up some

Surprise, our XC90 is worth almost $2K more than it was late last year I guess since the fuel prices came back down.

So:

$1150 fuel efficiency incentive
$3600 stimulus sales tax incentive on the one I've spec'd
$2000 more value on our XC90
$1500 fuel savings with miles we drive per year over 5 years [much better if fuel goes back up to $4.00 which it probably will]
$8250 total savings not counting the higher diesel resale value after 5 years compared to gas.

Lease rates su$k but finance rates aren't bad just through my bank . . .

Come on guys, I'm tryin' here!!!

What, do I need your moral support here or what?

I'm finally workin' a deal folks!

Stay tuned . . .