Buying a Roadtrek CS - any advice?
We haven't started to negotiate a price yet, so looking for suggestions please.
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When we went to buy our Roadtrek we went to three different dealers - each about three hours away from us. We were ordering our RT with the options that we wanted so it would have to come from the factory made for us. Each dealer came up with a different price. Each sat down and punched numbers into a calculator and smiled and said here is the price. Each was below MSRP. The best of the three was about 15-18% less. The lowest priced dealer was the hardest to get to even with the same travel time. I took his price to the dealer that we liked best and presented the price to him (after he had given us his price). He agreed to that price.
If it is on the lot there is a lot more room to haggle. Many dealers don't want to have anything remaining on the lot if the new models will be coming out and Roadtrek puts out two models with the same year - one on the last year's chassis and one on the current year's chassis. The change is around March. Both will be called the same year Roadtrek - 2014. I recently heard that the factory is backed up on orders so Roadtreks on the lot may be more at a premium now for anyone who wants one without a long wait. (Someone reported still waiting now after ordering in October.)
If you are looking for an RS Adventurous with the Etrek electric package option, you are most likely not going to find this on a dealer's lot. This is going to have to be ordered.
If it is on the lot there is a lot more room to haggle. Many dealers don't want to have anything remaining on the lot if the new models will be coming out and Roadtrek puts out two models with the same year - one on the last year's chassis and one on the current year's chassis. The change is around March. Both will be called the same year Roadtrek - 2014. I recently heard that the factory is backed up on orders so Roadtreks on the lot may be more at a premium now for anyone who wants one without a long wait. (Someone reported still waiting now after ordering in October.)
If you are looking for an RS Adventurous with the Etrek electric package option, you are most likely not going to find this on a dealer's lot. This is going to have to be ordered.
