[bybcous]

free gto days?

[tripowergto]

Originally Posted by bybcous

free gto days?

A few days before Christmas Dec 2004 a few select GM Card holders were mailed a $5000 off certificate toward a leftover 2004 GTO or SSR. Incoming 2005 vehicles were given a 50HP boost with the MSRP remaining the same so who would willingly purchase the 04's? Dealer discounts were already massive.

At the same time GM was also offering a $5500 off incentive. Thus some had $10,500 off before huge dealer discounts came into play on a 32K MSRP car. I didn't need a car, money was tight from Christmas and my wife thought I'd lost my mind but I purchased a Pulse Red GTO 6SPD on the final day of the offer for $17,300 out the door with all TTL included. I drove it for 2 years & 27k miles, hit a huge mule deer in NH and still traded it in(2006 GTO) for $18,000 netting an absolutely FREE 2004 GTO

[VQ35DE]

Originally Posted by tripowergto

A few days before Christmas Dec 2004 a few select GM Card holders were mailed a $5000 off certificate toward a leftover 2004 GTO or SSR. Incoming 2005 vehicles were given a 50HP boost with the MSRP remaining the same so who would willingly purchase the 04's? Dealer discounts were already massive.

At the same time GM was also offering a $5500 off incentive. Thus some had $10,500 off before huge dealer discounts came into play on a 32K MSRP car. I didn't need a car, money was tight from Christmas and my wife thought I'd lost my mind but I purchased a Pulse Red GTO 6SPD on the final day of the offer for $17,300 out the door with all TTL included. I drove it for 2 years & 27k miles, hit a huge mule deer in NH and still traded it in(2006 GTO) for $18,000 netting an absolutely FREE 2004 GTO

GM paid you to drive it !

[VQ35DE]

Originally Posted by bybcous

free gto days?

Hey that's MY line !

[tripowergto]

Any new lease deals out there? It may be winter but at least a few folks MUST be leasing these cars.

[bballr4567]

Originally Posted by tripowergto

Any new lease deals out there? It may be winter but at least a few folks MUST be leasing these cars.

Im flipping trying. I REALLY REALLY REALLY want that dual mode exhaust if Im going with the V6 but man, dealers really suck at ordering it. Within 500 miles there are THREE 1LTs with RS and NPP. About 75 with RS but no NPP.

[SuperSound]

Originally Posted by bballr4567

Im flipping trying. I REALLY REALLY REALLY want that dual mode exhaust if Im going with the V6 but man, dealers really suck at ordering it. Within 500 miles there are THREE 1LTs with RS and NPP. About 75 with RS but no NPP.

Your looking for an odd combo, a stripper 1LT with NPP. Very unlikely you will find it on any dealer lot unless a customer order got cancelled. You could expand it to a 2LT and your chances of finding NPP will definitely go up. Then maybe ask the dealer to make you a deal on the 2LT to convince you not to place an order for the 1LT you want. Depending on how long the car has been on the lot and how hungry the dealer is, you might get a deal you can live with.

[tripowergto]

Originally Posted by bballr4567

Im flipping trying. I REALLY REALLY REALLY want that dual mode exhaust if Im going with the V6 but man, dealers really suck at ordering it. Within 500 miles there are THREE 1LTs with RS and NPP. About 75 with RS but no NPP.

The 8spd 1LT I test drove had the NPP and I liked it but didn't find it a gotta have option on a short term lease. If I purchased the car I might feel otherwise.

They still want MSRP for my tester: http://www.chevrolet-newhampton.heal...vehicle/633141

[bballr4567]

Originally Posted by SuperSound

Your looking for an odd combo, a stripper 1LT with NPP. Very unlikely you will find it on any dealer lot unless a customer order got cancelled. You could expand it to a 2LT and your chances of finding NPP will definitely go up. Then maybe ask the dealer to make you a deal on the 2LT to convince you not to place an order for the 1LT you want. Depending on how long the car has been on the lot and how hungry the dealer is, you might get a deal you can live with.

Nope. National lease deal is on a 1LT. It isn't THAT odd of a combo honestly, just that there isn't that many of them around because they have been selling pretty fast. If you add the RS, the NPP should be a no brainer.

Plus, not many 2LTs have the NPP either. I'd say that of all the LTs I've looked at only about 15% of them have the NPP ordered on them. Hell, even on the stock dealer orders for SS only about 25% of them have the NPP as well. Very strange.

Price difference goes from about $270-280/mth to well over $400/mth from the 1LT to a 2LT.

[SuperSound]

Originally Posted by bballr4567

Nope. National lease deal is on a 1LT. It isn't THAT odd of a combo honestly, just that there isn't that many of them around because they have been selling pretty fast. If you add the RS, the NPP should be a no brainer.

Plus, not many 2LTs have the NPP either. I'd say that of all the LTs I've looked at only about 15% of them have the NPP ordered on them. Hell, even on the stock dealer orders for SS only about 25% of them have the NPP as well. Very strange.

Price difference goes from about $270-280/mth to well over $400/mth from the 1LT to a 2LT.

Gotcha on the lease special. I shouldn't have said odd, more like rare. I'm starting to see more 1LTs around here but none have NPP. There's one 2LT and the dealer put everything on it, which is going to be more common for the time being than 1LT with NPP (but to your point both are rare already). Once the LTG cars start showing up, finding a 1LT with the LGX and NPP is going to become very hard.

[bballr4567]

And....just got word back. Take delivery on Friday. Dealer trade for a 1LT.

Summit white, M6, RS and NPP with the infotainment package.

Deal will be right under $300 with taxes IIRC. They didn't add in my bonus points correctly on the sheet of paper I've got.

[VQ35DE]

Keeping the GTO ?

[bballr4567]

Originally Posted by VQ35DE

Keeping the GTO ?

Nope. Only a two car garage. Having the two year lease will give it time for the Camaro team to release what I really want and to allow me to save up a pretty good down payment on it as well.

It's truly a win win. GTO is 10 years old now and it's showing a tad. Might as well sell it to get the money out of it now rather than wait while its value falls due to the 5th gen becoming more available every day.

[suzook]

Originally Posted by tripowergto

Any new lease deals out there? It may be winter but at least a few folks MUST be leasing these cars.

Deals??? Well....not so much on 2ss. Mine is $575 a month....zero out of pocket. 39mo 10k miles a yr.