Papa G Z
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I had posted below about my deal and experience but now its complete.. I found a Performance Rosewood Manual in Manhattan Kansas at Briggs Nissan. I had not listed the dealer as I wanted to get the vehicle picked up and make sure no glitches in the process. I must say, this was one of my best buying experiences working with a dealer (the delays in delivery aside). My sales rep Luis (who got promoted to Finance now) kept me up to date every Monday for several weeks and answered all my concerns as they came up. He even had his boss call the Nissan folks and found out where the car was (docks in CA) and shortly have that inquiry and response from nissan the moving date became firm as 4/11 and for the past 2-3 weeks that stayed put. I was then able to plan for pickup. Drove rental car from Denver and my wife and I made a fun weekend out of it picking it up this past Saturday 4/15. Pouring rain upon pick up but I'm going to drive this car and yesterday after we got home I cleaned it along with four other vehicles as Denver was nice and sunny!.
Purchase details, was working with a Denver dealer and they too were great and had a similar car arrive in February...Rosewood Automatic. I saw that car on a Saturday and feel in love with the color (Had seen yellow in person). The sales rep pushed me about buying his auto but I held firm as they were also doing a $10k add on and I refuse to pay that. The next morning I went to Nissan Site and scrolled cars within 500 miles of my location. I saw the one in Denver at Larry Miller-Rosewood/Auto, and then right next to it was a Rosewood Manual Performance in Manhattan Kansas. I immediately emailed (Sunday) that I had interest and asked if available or if a customer reserved. They responded right away Monday morning that it was in fact available. I next asked if they were doing the crazy ad on cost and they said "we don't do that here at Briggs". Skeptical I asked if they would put that in writing on a deposit form etc..... so I would not be surprised at pick up. They agreed. I was still a little nervous that a sales manager might come up and say "hey wait, we can get $90K for these cars because they are hard to find". Never happened!!!
Took a certified check on Saturday ($52,000 +) numbers all matched up. (Initially they wanted sales tax at 9.1% but out of state I do that here so they cleared that off and sent new invoice). Now, I was excited and I still had some concerns about transmission issues, new engine in car, etc... so when we got to the finance guys and he had extra time on his hands as we didn't do loan he pushed on the Warranty Package. I normally say no (he actually called as we were driving there to start the push) and I did several times as the Premium package was about $3,800 and I plan to do fixes myself. He talked to his boss and they came back at half that amount so I figured with no Market adjustment I'll take the chance with the extended warranty so I did get the package. It's a 7 year 75,000 bumper to bumper (I know there will be some fine print). The package did include the etching stickers for vehicle theft tracking and some other perks.
NOTE: they did have one issue on the vehicle prep where the dealer installed front lower spoiler rubber trim was not done as their "rivet guy" was on vacation. They said I could take to local dealer for this dealer installed part. Anyone experience that or have that installed after the purchase? I have the part in the car and could rivet myself but likely will go back to Larry Miller for the assist. Briggs said if there were any discussion of out of pocket cost for me to call them and they would assist to get it done.
The Drive Back to Denver:
I was a little rusty on the manual, found myself resting my foot on my heal and pivoting vs. raised foot and only on clutch pedal. Shifting was smooth but with some of my failures with the clutch action being my bad!. Cruised I70 for about 450 miles at 79MPH and going up a little and down some to not be in same RPM as best I could. Got 22.8 MPG for the 450 miles. Drove some in the rain near dealer and while nervous about comments on the tires and my sloppy clutch work I was careful but never had any slips or tail out issues. Again being very safe. Car was comfortable to drive, side bolsters in the seat was a little tight but I'm sure it will soften. The cloth portion of the seats kept me in place but, we both found the back of our sweat shirts riding up as they stuck a little to cloth. Not a big deal but I found it funny we both said the same thing. The total drive was only 6.5 hours but we split it up as we had a long day Saturday so had a nice lunch in Manhattan downtown by Kansas State (photo attached of car parked downtown next to a BMW). Another photo shows trunk space with too good size soft duffels, small soft cooler in the back. The stereo, climate control, cruise control (didn't know it was the active cruise so when I came to a semi or other going slower I wondered why I slowed down, don't have that in our other cars LOL, good feature however), seating position all really good. One surprise was the lack of wind noise, very quiet cruising 79 MPH. We had a rental Dodge Challenger (v6) which was very comfortable that we drove to Kansas and it had noticeable wind noise. Ironically the sales person picking us up when we returned rental had a new Aryia? EV and it had a lot of wind noise to where I made a comment to him about it.
Anyway, excited and while I was on the wait list on top at Larry Miller for about a year and a half I'm glad I stuck to wanting the Rosewood/Manual and not being willing to pay add on charges but for those that paid it, I'm sure you are having a blast. I had a 76 280Z back in the 80's and now looking towards retirement with the NEW Z in a few years. This dealer did tell me they placed a couple customer orders recently, I was not aware you could place orders since I had backed off my hunt when I put deposit on this one. He said they can order but no real estimate on delivery timing. If you still looking, they are out there but you need to be quick and persistent!!! And, they can be bought for MSRP!!!!
Purchase details, was working with a Denver dealer and they too were great and had a similar car arrive in February...Rosewood Automatic. I saw that car on a Saturday and feel in love with the color (Had seen yellow in person). The sales rep pushed me about buying his auto but I held firm as they were also doing a $10k add on and I refuse to pay that. The next morning I went to Nissan Site and scrolled cars within 500 miles of my location. I saw the one in Denver at Larry Miller-Rosewood/Auto, and then right next to it was a Rosewood Manual Performance in Manhattan Kansas. I immediately emailed (Sunday) that I had interest and asked if available or if a customer reserved. They responded right away Monday morning that it was in fact available. I next asked if they were doing the crazy ad on cost and they said "we don't do that here at Briggs". Skeptical I asked if they would put that in writing on a deposit form etc..... so I would not be surprised at pick up. They agreed. I was still a little nervous that a sales manager might come up and say "hey wait, we can get $90K for these cars because they are hard to find". Never happened!!!
Took a certified check on Saturday ($52,000 +) numbers all matched up. (Initially they wanted sales tax at 9.1% but out of state I do that here so they cleared that off and sent new invoice). Now, I was excited and I still had some concerns about transmission issues, new engine in car, etc... so when we got to the finance guys and he had extra time on his hands as we didn't do loan he pushed on the Warranty Package. I normally say no (he actually called as we were driving there to start the push) and I did several times as the Premium package was about $3,800 and I plan to do fixes myself. He talked to his boss and they came back at half that amount so I figured with no Market adjustment I'll take the chance with the extended warranty so I did get the package. It's a 7 year 75,000 bumper to bumper (I know there will be some fine print). The package did include the etching stickers for vehicle theft tracking and some other perks.
NOTE: they did have one issue on the vehicle prep where the dealer installed front lower spoiler rubber trim was not done as their "rivet guy" was on vacation. They said I could take to local dealer for this dealer installed part. Anyone experience that or have that installed after the purchase? I have the part in the car and could rivet myself but likely will go back to Larry Miller for the assist. Briggs said if there were any discussion of out of pocket cost for me to call them and they would assist to get it done.
The Drive Back to Denver:
I was a little rusty on the manual, found myself resting my foot on my heal and pivoting vs. raised foot and only on clutch pedal. Shifting was smooth but with some of my failures with the clutch action being my bad!. Cruised I70 for about 450 miles at 79MPH and going up a little and down some to not be in same RPM as best I could. Got 22.8 MPG for the 450 miles. Drove some in the rain near dealer and while nervous about comments on the tires and my sloppy clutch work I was careful but never had any slips or tail out issues. Again being very safe. Car was comfortable to drive, side bolsters in the seat was a little tight but I'm sure it will soften. The cloth portion of the seats kept me in place but, we both found the back of our sweat shirts riding up as they stuck a little to cloth. Not a big deal but I found it funny we both said the same thing. The total drive was only 6.5 hours but we split it up as we had a long day Saturday so had a nice lunch in Manhattan downtown by Kansas State (photo attached of car parked downtown next to a BMW). Another photo shows trunk space with too good size soft duffels, small soft cooler in the back. The stereo, climate control, cruise control (didn't know it was the active cruise so when I came to a semi or other going slower I wondered why I slowed down, don't have that in our other cars LOL, good feature however), seating position all really good. One surprise was the lack of wind noise, very quiet cruising 79 MPH. We had a rental Dodge Challenger (v6) which was very comfortable that we drove to Kansas and it had noticeable wind noise. Ironically the sales person picking us up when we returned rental had a new Aryia? EV and it had a lot of wind noise to where I made a comment to him about it.
Anyway, excited and while I was on the wait list on top at Larry Miller for about a year and a half I'm glad I stuck to wanting the Rosewood/Manual and not being willing to pay add on charges but for those that paid it, I'm sure you are having a blast. I had a 76 280Z back in the 80's and now looking towards retirement with the NEW Z in a few years. This dealer did tell me they placed a couple customer orders recently, I was not aware you could place orders since I had backed off my hunt when I put deposit on this one. He said they can order but no real estimate on delivery timing. If you still looking, they are out there but you need to be quick and persistent!!! And, they can be bought for MSRP!!!!
