surge101
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Hello all!
So it's about time I get a new vehicle and I have really been considering the Gladiator... I had a few questions for you owners...
I'm familiar with the process of negotiating new cars and reading pricing etc, but this experience has been a bit odd. I went to a couple of jeep dealerships and they haven't been willing to budge from the sticker price, which is usually marked up with options up 10-15k. The base sport that should be 33,450 are usually listed at 41,000, and 45,000 for the Sport S. I'm used to stickers listing very basic things as options and trying to charge for them, I am also used to negotiating them away. Jeep dealers in this case have basically laughed at me. They aren't giving me any room at all, one of them even walked away from me when I said I would pay invoice price plus TTL. What should I realistically expect to spend on a manual or auto Sport S?
What I initially wanted was a manual Sport S. After reading some reviews on the manual trans though, I am rethinking the manual. Can anyone that has the manual trans chime in their opinions? I love manual transmissions and the idea of offroading a manual trans sounded like a lot of fun to me, but the reviews seem very down on it. This might be very different then I'm used to, this would be my first truck, I've primarily driven small sports cars prior.
What is drawing me to this truck is the off-road and customization capabilities, I've never done it before, but I'd like to get away from modifying cars to make them fast and doing something more fun like this. A Rubicon is out of the question for me, would the Sport S still be capable?
Additional question, is hard top a must? I live in a very hot climate, I'm not sure if this is affected by which top you have. Don't know if either one is safer than the other either.
Being the last day of the month, I may continue my hunt today, but if they won't budge from 41k, I may have to pick up a Tacoma.
So it's about time I get a new vehicle and I have really been considering the Gladiator... I had a few questions for you owners...
I'm familiar with the process of negotiating new cars and reading pricing etc, but this experience has been a bit odd. I went to a couple of jeep dealerships and they haven't been willing to budge from the sticker price, which is usually marked up with options up 10-15k. The base sport that should be 33,450 are usually listed at 41,000, and 45,000 for the Sport S. I'm used to stickers listing very basic things as options and trying to charge for them, I am also used to negotiating them away. Jeep dealers in this case have basically laughed at me. They aren't giving me any room at all, one of them even walked away from me when I said I would pay invoice price plus TTL. What should I realistically expect to spend on a manual or auto Sport S?
What I initially wanted was a manual Sport S. After reading some reviews on the manual trans though, I am rethinking the manual. Can anyone that has the manual trans chime in their opinions? I love manual transmissions and the idea of offroading a manual trans sounded like a lot of fun to me, but the reviews seem very down on it. This might be very different then I'm used to, this would be my first truck, I've primarily driven small sports cars prior.
What is drawing me to this truck is the off-road and customization capabilities, I've never done it before, but I'd like to get away from modifying cars to make them fast and doing something more fun like this. A Rubicon is out of the question for me, would the Sport S still be capable?
Additional question, is hard top a must? I live in a very hot climate, I'm not sure if this is affected by which top you have. Don't know if either one is safer than the other either.
Being the last day of the month, I may continue my hunt today, but if they won't budge from 41k, I may have to pick up a Tacoma.
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