23 Mojave $70K MSRP for $52K - Deal?

[Redfour5]

If it has the options you want, I would do it. That’s a really good discount considering the MSRP.

Right now on Car Guru's, there are 14,326 2023 Gladiators for sale. Yes, some are duplicates but in general, it is way above 10,000 units and some still coming in from the factory... That is why the incentives are so good. The question is will they get better? In fact, there are 340 2022's still available but the dealers generally won't deal on those as they are orphans to the system.

As a comparison, there are 2,652 (2023) Chevy Colorado's for sale, virtually all at MSRP some marked up. A loaded Colorado if you can get one will run what a well optioned Gladiator runs WITH all the incentives as in the mid 40's. There are 4352 Mavericks for sale with a major portion of them in transit and most of them with mark-ups ranging from a thousand to three or four thousand bucks. And even loaded, you are in the mid-30's even with the mark-ups. There are only 342 Rangers and they are up in the range of a Gladiator and I'm thinking their days are numbered as they are also very long in the tooth tech/looks wise.

So, I was going to pull the trigger on one of these Gladiators marked down 30%. I had the deal done...and my wife came home off a trip with Covid, is now ISOLATED on Paxlovid and I have some symptoms and will likely be the same. So, I had to call and tell them I can't make it by the 30th as I was going to travel about 400 miles to save an extra 3,000 vs my local dealers. My dealers are doing dealer incentives of like 10% while the one I'm looking at is doing a 15% match with the Stellantis incentives.

I was a little bummed, but then remembered, this is how I got the Renegade I'm trading in in 2019. I bought it as a daily driver in May 2019 and they were so desperate to get rid of them I got a 30K Renegade (MSRP) for 18,500... It actually has been a great car and I have right at 8K equity on it to soften the blow of a new Gladiator.

My thought is that with 13,000 new gladiators (quick national search on Car Gurus) sitting on lots, there are going to be some more "deals" incentives before all or most of the 2023's are gone... So, I'll wait and see a bit longer. AND, the dealer in Washington State I'm looking at started the month with 16 Gladiators at 30% off of ALL Gladiators. They have ONLY sold four so far this month...

I have to wonder if the deals will be as good as 2019 summer fall on previous year models, but they gotta be good with all that stock on lots.

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[ErylFlynn]

So, I bought my Gladiator, did not like the interest rate (around 6.5% at the time) but got a 100K warranty program and the best deal they offered, which was also contingent on if I finance through them.

Two days later, went to my Credit Union and refinanced it at 4.49%. Last I checked they were still offering under 5%.

What was msrp and what did they accept?