Early on in the Grenadier journey your fellow Americans were screaming out for a direct agency model (like we are stuck with) as you thought that you would all be paying well above MSRP, now things have settled down (like they always were going to) you have the opportunity to shop around and haggle for a better cash deal. A competitive market at work, dealers offering deals and fighting to get your business, how good is that!
There is the 2nd vehicle that arrived in CA that was a cancel. The sticker was $83K, now a Land Rover dealer bough it and wants $115K. We'll need to see how much the hype factor hits this - but still think so few know about the vehicle.
Same thing happened in European and our markets, the first few flippers asked stupid prices looking for wood ducks but they soon settled down. If dealers have cancelled orders sitting on their lots tying up cash they will do a deal.
Interesting concept... Forgetting MSRP and even selling the vehicle at "invoice" pricing (whatever that may be), the dealer still makes a profit from their holdback amount. This is why I've been pretty vocal identifying dealers that are charging (what I consider to be) ridiculous documentation fees (like Triad and Crown both being $1k), as that is even more profit straight into their pockets that they did no leg work for (no marketing costs for the sales, no effort that the sales staff had to put forth, etc.).
They don't call them stealerships for nothing.
I have tools, do you have beer, will install for beer!
"Expressions of interest" approach might work in the dealer's favour.
There are (non-Ineos) dealers in the US that charge nearly double that for hourly shop rates...
