I visited three dealers before I bought my Evo. One of them was in Michigan City, Indiana. They had a yellow one for sale and they wanted almost $35000. It had the grounding kit ($800), shift knob ($200), gauge surround ($200) and more than a $1000 market adjustment. I took my business to Illinois and I bought my Evo there.

I stopped by the Indiana dealer's service dept because I had a fuse question. I noticed a yellow Evo in the showroom and I asked the service guy if it's the same one from April. He said, "It has a few extras on it and we haven't sold it".

Have you ever seen a car sit in a showroom so long? I am glad there wasn't a sucker dumb enough to buy that padded up Evo.

 

Down at brad benson in jersey i went to look at one in august of last year and just saw it up on ebay maybe 2 weeks ago. Obviously not as long as that one, but still pretty long.

 

and it was being sold by the dealership on ebay. It was not a private owner.

 

Yup. There is the silver Evo sitting in Dutchess Mitsu's ( Poughkeepsie, NY ) showroom.
It was the first one they got, back in March or April. I test drove it in June; had them get me my LY evo
from another dealer ( in Westchester NY ).

Same mistake. They screwed every part mitsu offered onto it, which jacked up the price.
To their credit, they didn't place any market adder on the car.

Last time I checked it had about 150 mi on it. All from harsh test drives ( like mine ) I assume.
They won't be able to give it away...

AFAIK, I'm the only one who ever bought an Evo there...

 

most dealers are idiots, imo. $35000 for an evo thats a markup of 5 grand. Now you can get them for $29900.

 

its amazing that some dealers rather have the car then make just a few gains on it ....

 

got mine brand new for 28500......jus gotta keep walking out on the guy, plus it was in decemeber

 

They will never sell it telling people the earthing kit is $800!

 

I got my EVO for $27900 out the door it was 29746~

The point here is to find a dealer that doesn't think the EVO is a showpiece rather than a profit.

 

yeap mines was sitting on the lot since last year april.... walked in they tried to get me to pay 31 for it... i told them i wasn't paying that much..on top of that the car alrady had 300 miles on it... end result...me , with car paying 28,385...... out the door.

 

I don't think corporate actually wants the dealers to sell all of them. I would think that they would want at least one on the showroom floor just for image and foot traffic. It is far more valuable in that role than a few months on the floor plan. There are 300 other cars on the lot that they need to sell too....

Dealer crazy for keeping at least one around? Ya, crazy LIKE A FOX!

 

My local dealer has had the same rally red since March...the SAME ONE! LOL. I passed by there today (jan 10) to see if had been discounted. And guess what...it STILL has a 2K markup! HAHAHA.

 

They must be crazy . I went to that dealer when they first received that EVO. It didn't have any additional accessories when I saw it, and they were going to give me a deal on it since I already have an EVO (not a great deal though). Although it probably helped that I drove my EVO up there when I went to look at it. I'm going back up there in a couple weeks to visit some family, I think I'll stop in there to see what is going on.

Ryan (MonsterEVO)

 

I asked the guy about the grounding kit. I hadn't heard about it and I didn't know what it was. I asked the salesman to tell me about it and why it was $800. The guy handed me the manual and he said, "Here, you can read about it".

I hope they keep that car till 2006!