[Pzevinside]

I had some time to kill before my appointment, so decided to go to the local Ford Dealership and look at some of the 2003 Ford Focus cars. I liked this Liquid Grey colored ZX3. Now this one had the 16inch rims and tires along w/ 4wheel Disc brakes. Yes it had Advance Trak and it was of course automatic and AC. Did not notice if it had the MP3 or not, but the sticker price on this thing was $19,000, I said WTF???? That is outrageous. Yes there are incentives like $3000 off for something on top of like another $1500 and w/ those incentives it brought the price down to like $15,500. The price of the Focus has really gone up since I got both of my ZX3's from that Dealership. That is really ridiculus{sp?). Why did the price go up, more of a demand for these cars or what?????

[ 04-11-2003, 04:54 PM: Message edited by: zetecinside ]

 

[pitchblackzx3]

My 2000 ZTS had asticker price of $17.9xx....

 

[Qdoba Addict]

Subtract the AdvanceTrac ($1625) and the automatic ($815) and you are down to about $13000 after the rebates and discounts you stated. Sounds like a decent price to me.

 

[FociD00d02]

$14,400 sticker for a bone stripped 5spd (zx3) talked down to 9 and soem change (before taxes tag etc and after rebate)

 

[SuperMatt]

Sticker on my BAAAASE (NO options) 2002 ZX3 was $12,900. That was in Dec '01.

 

[Nacron]

My street edition, after dealer markup, came out to about $21,000. Got it for like $15,000 with Xplan

 

[Auto-X-ZTS]

They really have not changed a whole lot if you go option for option; in fact with the rebates as big as they are now ($2500) you can probably pay less today than in '01 for an equally equipped car. In other words, the Focus is still a smokin deal for someone wanting a fun-to-drive small car.

 

[Jennifer]

Originally posted by pitchblackzx3:
My 2000 ZTS had asticker price of $17.9xx....

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">That's about the same as my 2000 and mine isn't even a ZTS just a SE.

 

[ZX3guy182]

i noticed this the other day while i was getting my 5th cd player installed. My same zx3 in 03 was 15xxx i got mine for 11xxx, i was surprised.

 

[LAXbronco65]

got my base 2003 ZX3 for 9 G's. Same price as used 2000 with 30k on it. I consider it a hell of a deal.

 

[drivn01s2]

when i bought my S2 the price tag was 14'999, after tax title and licence and all that crap it came to 16'300, thought it was fair

 

[HotRodWagon]

Focus is a bargain/steal with 4000 off(ford 2500 rebate, dealer another 1500) msrp. I got mine that way..leather,roof,advancetrac,6disk,sidebags/ everything but the alarm...what other new car can match that for 15-16k...none!

[ 04-12-2003, 01:13 AM: Message edited by: HotRodWagon ]

 

[rpvitiello]

I said the same thing a few weeks ago...
http://www.focaljet.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=016694#000000

 

[P-51]

All the American manufacturers are doing it. They are inflating the MSRP, and then give you rebates... makes you think you're getting a good deal.

It's kinda like furniture stores, where every tag has the "regular price" and then a "sale price".