Confirmed: 3.5% Tariff on all new Porsche products through the end of 2025.

[jwatte]

But once the car comes in, it should be the same for either vehicle from that point forward.

I think this is a herd immunity kind of thing. If they all just Don't Sell The Car Below MSRP to you, the orderer, then they know you won't come in and do that. It's their way of collectively working around the fact that state law doesn't allow non-refundable down payments.
They'd rather sell the car at a discount to someone else, later, than sell it at that discount to you, because overall they then do better.

Of course, you *can* find dealers who defect from this prisoner's dilemma. A good broker will probably know a couple. But the rarer the vehicle is (as in, you may need to ask for an allocation,) the harder it will be.

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[Station]

At the end of the day, Macan EV's are NOT selling like hotcakes, and Porsche is laying off ~4000 people over the next 4 years (per Porsche).

Federal credits are ending in less than 60 days. Dealers can take stand all they want, but the storm clouds are being anticipated - whether they tip their hand or otherwise.

I'm not saying that we should try to screw the dealers during this time, but you buying a car from them should be a win for both parties - and if my dealer told me that they will do me a favor and give me 1-2% discount on a $100k car, while hitting me with a lease money factor of .0035 (which is 8.5% APR), I'd walk on my order.

But we reached a figure and had a gentleman's handshake when I ordered, so it's moot.

In my opinion, both situations, cars "on the lot" or cars on a boat should be treated the same.

.0035-.00385 lease money factor coupled with 3-5% discount off MSRP makes solid and fair deal for the dealership and the customer.

 

[AndrewH]

In my decades of experience buying new cars and being on car forums I’ve developed a theory. The more you try to screw the dealer buying the car, the more they return the favour when you go to service it.

 

[jwatte]

Porsche charges a base money factor of around 0.0035 for excellent credit customers (varies by month) so I don't think the dealer has a lot of room to negotiate on that part.

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