[GH85Carrera]

When my wife decided she wanted a Macan she researched and went to the Porsche web site.

Porsche will let you "build your car" and configure it with your options. She built her car with the options she wanted, colors, packages the entire thing. Porsche has a "suggested" price for the vehicle as you want it. We printed that out, and also sent it to USAA which has a car buying service.

Our local dealer is not part of the USAA car buying program, but two dealers in Dallas were. Both gave us the same quote which was several thousand off the suggested price. We walked into the local dealership and handed the salesman that printout and quote from two other dealers. I said if you will match those offers, we have a deal. If not, we are driving to Dallas to pick up the car when it is ready in a few months.

The local dealer matched the price. All they had to do was place the order with Porsche AG and three months later it arrived. They did of course do the dealer prep and file the paperwork for the title and slap a temp tag on it. The total price was just what we were quoted.

Now the local dealer did indeed let us test drive a Cayenne, a Macan Turbo and a base Macan to get a feel of the differences. Right away we knew the Cayenne was too big, and they let us take a Macan home overnight for an extended test drive.

They did all the up front work and all of that was a pleasant experience. I really wanted to buy from them, and they all know me as a long time PCA member and they did not even try the old add on BS. It is a 2017 model my wife wanted, and it has been flawless.