2012 base Volt - $32,212 or $299/mon lease special on Stingray's Website

[Jvolt]

I plan to buy a Volt soon and have been following this forum for the past several weeks. Since I live in central Florida I have paid close attention to the threads regarding Stingray Chevrolet and it appears that the deals discussed are legit. I was just on their website and they are advertising a special on 2012 base Volts that seem to be the best I have seen anywhere:

New 2012 base Volt MSRP $39,995 - discounted price $36,712 subtract $2,500 special discount,
final price $34,212.

36 month lease 10k miles/year $299/month. Here are the details form the website

"Low-Mileage Lease for Qualified Lessees as low as $299/month 36 month lease. $0 due at signing (after all offers). 10,000 miles/year. Includes security deposit. Tax, title, license, dealer fees and optional equipment extra."

I don't have any affiliation with Stingray and can't vouch for them. I just thought I post this since I haven't seen any other posts about. It is unclear whether the pricing applies to just the 8 units on the website or all 2012 Volts in stock.

Jay

[Henry_FL]

GM must be pulling out all the stops to clear the 2012 Inventory. While the 299 is nice, its no better than what we had before with the Ally 4400 cap reduction lease deal. For someone whom purchases, your looking at a brand spankin new Volt 26.5K after the federal tax credit ( if you can claim it of course! )

At these prices no one can say is pricing holding back Volt sales

[Jvolt]

Note to moderator. Please fix typo in thread title. The correct price should be $34,212. Sorry for the error.

[bonaire]

That's the ticket - moving base Volts at low prices so people can get in them with the feeling that final price is well within "regular ICE new car rates". After some tax credits and rebates, that price can put someone in a Volt for 24000 (plus taxes and fees) in PA and about 21500 in Colorado. A loaded Cruze is about that price.

I need to call Charlie O tomorrow. Definitely "buying" over leasing, but not sure about drop-ship or fly-down. My in-laws who are usually down in that area are parked in our driveway in PA.

[Statik]

That's the ticket - moving base Volts at low prices so people can get in them with the feeling that final price is well within "regular ICE new car rates". After some tax credits and rebates, that price can put someone in a Volt for 24000 (plus taxes and fees) in PA and about 21500 in Colorado. A loaded Cruze is about that price.

I need to call Charlie O tomorrow. Definitely "buying" over leasing, but not sure about drop-ship or fly-down. My in-laws who are usually down in that area are parked in our driveway in PA.

This is the first dealer I have seen break. Good news for buyers.

GM is running a dealership level Volt sales volume incentive. GM gives each dealer a 'target' Volt sales level, and if they sell triple that amount between May and the end of August they receive $2,500 for each car they sell...which is where Stingray (and some others) are getting the extra $2,500 from.

Your going to see more of this $2,500 as dealers get closer to the deadline and are coming up short. The program closes the first Tuesday in September, so if you want 'the best' deal, wait until the last week of August and buy the car off the dealers that are scrambling to make the number...your sale will be worth a lot more than the $2,500 to them, and you can leverage that. (Of course most dealers just won't participate at all, so you have to find the right one, but they will be easy to spot)

...mind you if the OP's MSRP on the base is $34,212 is achievable on the showroom floor, that is still pretty darn good. I would go for it if I was looking.

I'm guessing Stingray's strategy is to get ahead of the curve, make the number, then go back to selling Volt's at regular MSRP (or with a discount) while netting the $2,500.

[RScott]

GM is running a dealership level Volt sales volume incentive. GM gives each dealer a 'target' Volt sales level, and if they sell triple that amount between May and the end of August they receive $2,500 for each car they sell...

That is quite interesting. It's nice to see GM offering such incentives to get dealers to move the Volts (and obviously MAKING them as well).

You could get some incredible dealers just before the time period ends... even if the target amount was just 5 cars, triple that would be 15, and if the dealer is a couple days away from the deadline with 14 Volts sold, giving away the next Volt would make sense financially (of course, they wouldn't really do that; selling a Volt for $10K or $20K to that customer of 30 years would make more sense).

These deals don't help with resale value (when I got my 2011 a year ago, it was nearly impossible to find them in stock at MSRP; I'm so glad I didn't pay the $4-$5K *over* MSRP that my dealer wanted to sell his demo against the terms of the GM contract). But, I'd much rather see EVs/EREVs become less of a novelty than save a few bucks a few years from now.

Kudos to GM!

[bonaire]

I'm looking at 1500 of extra GM Card bonus earnings (for a total of 2500) to use, but that goes away July 2. I have to ask "will this continue through August"? If so, I might wait it out. But Stingray has some smokin' deals.

[nater]

Weird, the website is now $2500 more, $36,712, even though yesterday it said the pricing was good for 7 days.

Nate

[Jvolt]

The price on their website now is the same as the Stingray has been promoting on this forum for last several weeks - $2500 below invoice. I wonder what gives.

Jay