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Originally Posted by Bob_VT

The Corvettes were nice and they maintained over 6000 profit on the front side and 5500 on the dealers back end profit. It meant that every vette that went out the door even 500 under invoice gave the dealer 5000 in his profit. If a customer wanted to take delivery in Bowling Green we would arrange that too. It was a scam.

You're referring to the dealer holdback, which on the Corvette (and all other Chevy products) is 3% of MSRP; that's not even close to the "$5,500" you claim.

http://www.edmunds.com/advice/incent...ack/index.html

Thus, a Corvette with an MSRP of $50K would have a $1,500 holdback.

It's not fixed as you suggested, either, but is based solely on the (varying by options) MSRP.

Furthermore, there's no "scam" involved," since every American manufacturer has dealer holdbacks and has had them for many decades. It's part of the business.

The Bowling Green trip you're referring to is actually an RPO option called "museum delivery." I didn't get that. The only people who do get it willingly request and pay for it.


You can avoid replies such as these in the future by performing some fact checking before you type.