I’m the proud new owner of a fairly fully loaded manual transmission 6s 4-door sedan for $22k before taxes and tags. This is a full $3500 less than I was going to end up paying had I purchased the 5-door. Given Mazda’s current incentives, I couldn’t pass up how good a deal this was!! I […]

Ouch. Well, after trying to negotiate all of the add-on fees that bumped up the price the dealer and I had agreed upon ($500 over invoice was the agreement, but he was trying to charge me $950 over invoice), I pulled out of the deal. I don’t want to seem petty, but when a guy […]

BTW, invoice pricing on the Mazda6 5-door with a manual tranny in the U.S. is $21,111.00. The MSRP is $22,895. The option prices are all the same as the current sedan in terms of their invoice and MSRP pricing.

Whooo-hoooo! The dealer called today to fax over my invoice. Yay. Got it a few minutes later… […]

Well, according to the dealer’s database, this is the week that my car is scheduled for production! Yay!!! I’m excited knowing that they’re making it this week, but still disappointed that 2-3 weeks before I’m scheduled to take delivery of my car, Mazda North America has still not set final MSRP pricing on the 5-door […]