Originally Posted By: CJWinWA
I live in the Pacific Northwest, and for the past twenty years have resorted to buying new, mostly Ford trucks from a distance. With my last truck, I saved $8,000.00 by buying it from a dealer in Salt Lake City.
I intend to buy a Toyota truck this time, and am having great difficulty with the local dealers, and have not had much luck online.
I would like to find a Toyota dealer that sells in a way similar to how Dave Smith in Idaho works. is there such a place?
You're simply not going to get $8,000 off the MSRP on a Toyota truck. Period.
The domestics have a lot more room to deal built into their price than Toyota.
My local Toyota dealer, Charles Barker, in Virginia Beach, gave my MIL a great deal on her 2014 Avalon.
They also provide great service, have great parts support (Vicky, the parts manager, helped me out often with my 1990 4Runner) and I would happily buy from them again. But they were only willing to go about $4,000 off on my 2016 Tundra, which had an MSRP of $51,000. After quite a bit of research, including using USAA car buying service, that's about as good as it gets on a Tundra. The Tacoma is similar.
Personally, I despise the whole domestic truck maker game: jack up the MSRP and then give you a great "deal". Why not list the truck for $100,000 and then give you $50,000 off! What a great deal!! Right?