[beewang]

If I may ask... Why do you expect the price to change in the fall? Would it be up or down?

Greg, Dude...Pricing of ALL goods goes up, its called inflation. Furthermore, to complicate the matter, you must also factor-in the decline of dollar (vs. Euro). As all international corporations, BMW does have (to a certain extend) hedged currency future contracts to minimize their loss to currency fluctuation. However.... Do to the fact that BMW hasn't had a major price increase in the last 3 yrs, its a safe bet that they are going w/ a "steady increase" strategy. So in short, I am almost CERTAIN that the pricing of the car will go up in the fall.

So in short, when BMW proceed w/ the price hike this fall, your dealer's cost (aka COGS) goes up and thus your price will go up. Seems pretty fair to me as he agreed to sell the car to you at XXXX above his cost. His profit margin is fixed, he is only passing to you what his coast is, so why would you think it should be fixed??!! :dunno:

Hope this helps,

beewang :bigpimp:

 

[beewang]

.....Is it possible to pay for the car earlier than one month before pick-up?....

You can always pay early (like right now!) if you'd like. But it does NOT lock the price-in on a XXX amount over invoice deal (which is what I think you are getting at). OTOH, if you negotiated a deal based on "... I'll pay you $40k for the car..." then the dealer will negotiate the deal accordingly and once agreed on the selling price, will take increase in price hike as a squeeze on their margin. Perhaps you perfer it this way??

cheers,

beewang