We have one sitting on our showroom floor right now with a $20,000 market adjustment on top of the $100k sticker!
Good luck! I know of a handful that can't be sold for a couple g's off $100k. Dealers in 03 had SSR's for sale at $10k over sticker by the end of the year the cars were still sitting and gm was offering money to move the cars and dealers ended up losing money on everyone by years end.
If people want them they will find them. It's not a mass produced car, there aren't going to be that many made. We are allocated 3, we sold 1 the week after it hit our lot for 15K over sticker. I suspect we won't have a problem with the next one.
We have two STS-Vs on our showroom floor. I'd say if any of the three are going to move slowly it will be the STS-V.... from a sales perspective that is!
I'm waiting on my 2006 XLR-V to be delivered next Saturday. I'm very excited but also concerned about many of the problems I've read about.
As for availability I can tell you from my own research that there are plenty of both models available. I found two brand new ones at dealerships where they would take $20,000 off the sticker price (XLR) and my local dealer was willing to discount one by $17,000. My new V has 5,000 miles on it which is fine with me because I wanted to let someone else take the beating instead of me. I have no idea why the re-sale value is so bad.
I drove both models and there are a few obvious differences. I preferred the non V model's interior, lighter steering and the overall ride. However I didn't let that stop me from buying my V model. The heavier steering is understandable with the V's tremendous torque and I expected it to have a stiffer ride.
At first I was leaning very heavily towards the non V model because I didn't think I could justify the much more expensive V, but a test drive of the V changed all that. I have owned both a Lotus Esprit and a Ferrari Boxer
(BB-512) before so I appreciate a fast car, but I never expected the performance I got from my test drive of the V model. It really impressed me and I decided that the V's interior and ride would grow on me.
I do however worry about the issues I read about with the XLR's. I had an All'ante when they first came out and Cadillac ended up taking it back to the Detroit factory where for a month they combed over it to try and learn why it had so many defects. Those kinds of problems over shadow any great looking automobile and its performance. I don't buy them to look at, but instead to drive everyday.
As for opinions including my own here, we all know that opinions are like ass...., everyone has one and they all smell. I say that because had I let all the negative comments I read about the American Iron Horse motorcycle influence me, I would have missed out on one of the best motorcycle I've ever owned.
i am pretty sure MOST xlr-v sales are along the lines of scott (from superior caddy) pricing, 87-88000 for a xlr v... I agree gm needs to inform the "average" consumer of what a V series caddy is... most people think i just have an average cts and they do not know what a v entails... but the xlr v is a good start, it just needs to get out there more... but the fact that the regular xlr is being highly discounted almost immediately brings the price of the xlr v way down!!!
--Automobile Magazine, May 2004
