Someone made a valid point about letting the early buyers be the Beta testers. I have to agree. I bought both a Miata and the FRS as very early cars and have had to put up with the teething problems from both.Donne with that E36 M3.
Someone made a valid point about letting the early buyers be the Beta testers. I have to agree. I bought both a Miata and the FRS as very early cars and have had to put up with the teething problems from both.Donne with that E36 M3.
I think that's the way people are justifying not buying one right away 
Funny, it was the second year of the NC that had the biggest (ie, most expensive) problems.
Back to the original question - I'd simply talk to the dealership ahead of time. But that's already been covered.
TrueCar? Costco? Check if your insurance company has a buying service (USAA uses TrueCar)
So it's a 2.0 4cyl with 155hp in US spec? Seems good.
Petrolburner wrote: 2 things, if you leave a deposit, contractually, there has to be an agreed upon price. You can't legally change the terms of a contract once it's been executed, which leaving a deposit would qualify as. 2nd, if you buy in California, do you have to pay California taxes, or Nevada taxes since that's where you will register it?
This is what boned the Covered California insurance. They set up the exchanges with the assumption that doctors would accept 70% of their agreed upon, contracted rates with the insurance plans running them. That is why 3/4 of the doctors opted out if they found out in time. If money changes hands, you probably have a contract, which is agreed upon by two parties.
I think you only pay sales taxes once. You might have to pay a "fee" to get a temporary tag to drive it though, which varies by state as I recall.
Typically, you only pay sales tax in the state that you register the car. You might have a $20-$30 fee for the T-tag.
If I pick up the car from the dealer myself, I'll have to pay at least CA sales tax and possibly registration if I can't convince them to give me a day permit. For the Mitsubihsi I ended up with CA registration because the dealer wasn't willing or able to just get me a day permit, for the 996 I could get a day permit but that was a used car.
If I have it delivered up here by a dealer in CA instead I'll only have to pay NV sales tax.
You should be able to get the day use permit deal through the dealer, maybe check with the DMV directly.
I would definitely get it delivered to Reno if I could. Heck, I would drive it over there if you buy me lunch and drive me home, or have my wife follow me up and we spend the weekend in Tahoe while you enjoy your brand new car. I don't know what the qualifications are that California requires to deliver a car. I suspect they will want at least a piece of the action, if they can get it.
Petrolburner wrote: 2 things, if you leave a deposit, contractually, there has to be an agreed upon price. You can't legally change the terms of a contract once it's been executed, which leaving a deposit would qualify as. 2nd, if you buy in California, do you have to pay California taxes, or Nevada taxes since that's where you will register it?
Not really. Our local porsche dealer will let you leave a deposit on a car that is rumored to be built. Pretty wild, but it seems the competition is so fierce for some of the cars that's the kind of stuff that's happening. Deposit is refundable of course.
Keith Tanner wrote: You are also not expecting to buy any new cars, are you? I forget which under appreciated demographic gen Y is supposed to be.
I'm a bit of an outlier there, probably at least half of Gen. Y'ers could afford a new car. And I'm sure my parents would agree with those numbers (if anything they might think mine are a bit too high), and they've bought quite a few new cars.
In reply to Toebra:
When we bought the Evo, the dealer told us that because it was a brand new car they couldn't arrange for the day use permit - IIRC their words were along the lines of "the State of CA wants their pound of flesh", whereas the dealer I bought the (used) 996 from actually was able to get me a permit. Go figure.
IME (a couple of friends had their cars delivered) the dealer either sends out an employee to drive the up here or they put it on a truck with a bunch of other cars. I'm a little paranoid about having someone drive my "new" car - especially something like a brand new Evo - so I never was too keen on that option.
That said, having a car put on the back of a truck to be sent up here from Elk Grove shouldn't be that expensive...
Well, looks like I worried over nothing.
Mazda had problems with the preorder website, I went there a couple of minutes after they posted on Facebook they'd fixed it and by that time all manual ones had sold out (and they had about 60 automatics left).
On to plan B, auto-X/track another Mazda for a year or two to get Mazdaspeed eligible and then order a white Club ND.
Can't you just buy the car, and then bring your own plate from NV and bolt it on? The dealership is in no way a necessary part of vehicle registration aside from a bill of sale. Just ask them to put it outside with keys.
I can't get plates until I show up at the NV DMV with the car so they can do a VIN inspection, unfortunately.
Even if I pick up the car in CA unregistered, they'll still have to charge me CA sales tax, if I get it delivered to NV I pay my local sales tax rate, which is usually a couple percent less. Not having to deal with the CA DMV in the latter case is only a great side effect.
Why don't you call a few dealerships, and sign a contract before the car arrives? You are literally bringing them business they wouldn't otherwise see. You are providing them with an extra car to sell.. I think negotiating MSRP won't be a problem.
In reply to mr2peak:
Given that nobody seems to have driven the US-spec ND yet, I was willing to take a chance on a Launch Edition, but if I wasn't going to get one of them (limited to 1k cars in total), I was just going to wait until people actually had a chance to drive one.
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