What did you pay for your FL5?

[Clark_Kent]

February as in a month ago??? So jealous if that was the case

Ha, I didn't even think about it being last month when I wrote that. It felt like an eternity ago. But yeah, it was last month.

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[ScumbagRob]

I secured an allocation back in February for a Championship White Type R at MSRP. The dealer had a $199 doc fee. The car arrived at the dealership last week and was delivered to me this morning. One of the smoothest vehicle transactions I've ever completed, second only to the family hauler we purchased last year (Volvo XC90 T8).

Congrats! Which dealer?

 

[Clark_Kent]

Congrats! Which dealer?

Western Honda in Garden City, KS. Last I spoke to the salesman, the waiting list was 70+people deep. 97% of those individuals will never see a car. Not sure why they keep taking names as they likely will not be allocated another car this year. They saw 4 FK8s during the 5 year production run. For context, the highest volume dealer near Western Honda is Scholfield Honda in Wichita, KS. They sell over 300 cars a month and have only received 2 CTR allocations.

 

[CTRifecta]

Western Honda in Garden City, KS. Last I spoke to the salesman, the waiting list was 70+people deep. 97% of those individuals will never see a car. Not sure why they keep taking names as they likely will not be allocated another car this year. They saw 4 FK8s during the 5 year production run. For context, the highest volume dealer near Western Honda is Scholfield Honda in Wichita, KS. They sell over 300 cars a month and have only received 2 CTR allocations.

So how long were you on the list, or how did you skip everyone in line?

 

[AspecR]

46.7k, Msrp was just under 45k. 1k ADM but then 400 or 500 processing fee, and another couple hundred in other fees. I hate ADM and believe I'm in idiot for paying it. I'm sure I'll be pissed once these can easliy be had for MSRP.

You sir lucked out. You only think you'll be pissed but wait until you actually drive the car. You will not care one bit. These things will not be easily had at MSRP.

If we match up timelines with the FK8 launch. By this time in the FK8 release window, my dealership had already sold 9 times the amount of FL5s we've currently sold (only 1 sold so far).

 

[Clark_Kent]

So how long were you on the list, or how did you skip everyone in line?

I engaged them in early February. The interest in the allocation reached a fever pitch once it was known the vehicle was in transit.

 

[CaryH]

120 grand...lol

 

[CaryH]

Hi people how is everyone doing today? "Good to be the king"..mel brooks...lol

 

[ELIAS64]

I engaged them in early February. The interest in the allocation reached a fever pitch once it was known the vehicle was in transit.

Respectfully I call BS.

 

[CaryH]

120 grand...lol

It's a joke people lighten up.

 

[Clark_Kent]

Respectfully I call BS.

I'm not sure what I have to gain from lying about it. Do I get more reputation points for it? Do I get more people on an Internet forum who I don't know to like me?

The dealership I bought the car from is in a rural Midwestern town with a population of less than 30,000 and a median household income less than the MSRP of a Type R. This wasn't the only dealership I was in contact with who had no waiting list and zero local demand. If you're largely shopping for this car in urban centers you're doing it wrong. If you're waiting for allocations to pop up on these trackers before you engage these dealerships you're also doing it wrong.

 

[ScumbagRob]

I'm not sure what I have to gain from lying about it. Do I get more reputation points for it? Do I get more people on an Internet forum who I don't know to like me?

The dealership I bought the car from is in a rural Midwestern town with a population of less than 30,000 and a median household income less than the MSRP of a Type R. This wasn't the only dealership I was in contact with who had no waiting list and zero local demand. If you're largely shopping for this car in urban centers you're doing it wrong. If you're waiting for allocations to pop up on these trackers before you engage these dealerships you're also doing it wrong.

For the record, I don't think you are lying.

But it does seem strange that your dealership - located in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere - has 70+ people on the waitlist. And that it had 0 last month.

 

[Clark_Kent]

For the record, I don't think you are lying.

But it does seem strange that your dealership - located in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere - has 70+ people on the waitlist. And that it had 0 last month.

Just to be clear, it's not "my" dealership as in, local to me or one I've done business with in the past, it's "a" dealership.

Once the allocation is in the public domain, the dealership begins to receive calls. I presume that's what happened here. Tyler Honda in Stevensville, MI was the same story. Rural dealership on Lake Michigan, in an even smaller town than the dealership in Kansas. There was no one on that waiting list when I called a couple months back and they were selling at MSRP. They received an allocation shortly after I engaged them; however, they started to backpedal on pricing and the car was SGP, which I wasn't interested in. I didn't follow up with them after but if I were to guess their waiting list has several people on it now.

 

[machimself]

I'm not sure what I have to gain from lying about it. Do I get more reputation points for it? Do I get more people on an Internet forum who I don't know to like me?

The dealership I bought the car from is in a rural Midwestern town with a population of less than 30,000 and a median household income less than the MSRP of a Type R. This wasn't the only dealership I was in contact with who had no waiting list and zero local demand. If you're largely shopping for this car in urban centers you're doing it wrong. If you're waiting for allocations to pop up on these trackers before you engage these dealerships you're also doing it wrong.

This is the way.

 

[AspecR]

Respectfully I call BS.

It happens quite often, I’ve sent lists to people who secured a car and then the dealer that sold it gets large amounts of interest only after it appears on their website. I know 2 forum members that had their selling dealer ask to buy the car back so they could resell it, because they didn’t anticipate the demand would be so high.

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