Has anyone done a pre-order/ allocation deposit in the Midwest or any where else? If so so which dealer and how much of a deposit?
Has anyone done a pre-order/ allocation deposit?
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I should've updated, I placed one with a dealer in MO.
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Pretty much every dealer in Northern IL is crooked. I honestly haven't bought a car in state in years.
But I'm running into the following issues.
A. Over MSRP
B. They know nothing about the car.
C. They don't want to take a deposit/Deal with me.
D. Have such terrible reviews that I don't want to deal with them.
For reference most of my family works for either or GM or did at some point in time. I even worked at a Chevy dealer for a short stint.
I have never encountered anything like this. When I ordered my ats. It was place a deposit, pick your options, special requests. Showed up 7 months later. And this was true for lots of other friends/customers. I'm completely baffled Hyundais approach to this and the car has been a thing since what October?
I'm in the automotive performance industry and a lot of people I know are buying Hyundai wether N cars or ioniq 5's. But know I now why people don't deal with Hyundai's and for the money they want for some of these cars they will never get the customers they want.
They already have two strikes from me, I might give up and keep waiting for a Camaro EV that I was planning on at this point.
Yup, me either. VW, Audi, Porsche, Polestar, Volvo, Ford, everyone else, you go to dealer, tell them what they want, they place the order, that arrives.
Hyundai? you get what they send. I don't have much experience with other Asian brands short of my Niro and Miata so I'm not sure if it's common place for the Japanese brands as well.
Honestly, so many amazing evs coming out this year and next, and with the sub 4 second Chevy Blazer EV and the Equinox EV, the new 300+ mile range Volvo XC40/C40 C60, there are tons of great options out there for folks fed up with Hyundai.
I specifically want a sedan/coupe under 50k that's not rolling computer experiment (Tesla) so that is very limiting, I should mention the dealer I was working with (St. Charles Hyundai in MO) specifically Courtney, was awesome, he never told me no and looked into everything I asked and remind me a lot of myself when I used to sell cars, infact he provided all the information I posted on this forum and on general gave me more information than any other dealers combined.
Nice, check out the Polestar 2. They bring them to you, they're incredibly fast and handle great, and unlike most, are fast-backs. I've helped several friends pick them and all have been overjoyed - and the new entry model will be 300 mile range!
I looked into them but they were kinda bland and more a crossover than sedan. Volvo hasn't been the same since they got snatched up by the Chinese.
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I have my order in for a black on black Ioniq 6. Deposit already put down. The car is at the port, hopefully I'll have it by the end on the month. I'll keep you all posted.
Glad you have a competent dealer lol
Do you have a vin? I'm trying to setup a tracking system to find other cars on the way.
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I believe this site already scrapes dealer websites within a radius of a zip code. There are a handful of Ioniq 6 already listed especially on the west coast.
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My local dealer told me their list shows "1 at sea" but they have no insight (no idea if RWD, AWD, SE, SEL, LTD, etc), and it also doesn't show in this list either. I still can't see a situation in which these cars start getting delivered to customers before real world reviews are released.
There are reviews all over YouTube, and I physically sat in one at the auto show, that is 100% of the reasons want one now.
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