I'd suggest you try using Costco if you're a member. You put in the car you want and your location, and they send you a contact at a local dealer who will give you the no-haggle Costco member-price. You may be able to haggle a little better deal, but it will certainly give you a benchmark to shoot for...

 

I got both my cars at 300-500 less than the costco quote. I was going to go that route but it turned out better just holding out. The key is to find out the bace invoice put your options on at the option invoice price then add a couple hundred on and thats pretty close to your starting point. For instance the leather option invoice is like $450 and thats all you should pay, some dealers tack on $2000-2500 for that option. If you order a car you should get even a better price since it will be on there lot no time and they will not have to pay inventory tax on that car, and manufacture gives them $500 kickback for tax, so the dealers have lots of cars on the lot. So right off the bat they make an aditional $500 for the sale. and none of that money comes from you. If you time the purchase near the end of the month you can normally get aditional discount due to the sales persion is trying to boost his sales numbers for that month and if you get a sales persion that is battling to get a most sales bonus he may even cut into his commision to make the sale.

If you time it right you can get any car for $200-300 over base invoice and all the options you want and thier cost.