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Deal of the Day: Employee Pricing means $10,000 off on 2008 Corvette Z06
Wow, there are some great deals to be had at the moment from General Motors. Not the least of which is on the Corvette, specifically the Z06 model, which we've had nothing but good things to say about, even at its $72K asking price. Now that GM is offering all of its models at employee prices, that cost drops by about ten grand! A Z06 for $62,653? Yes please... if only our meager blogging budgets would allow it. Similarly, a Caddy XLR-V can be had for $84,771.80 -- about a $15,000 discount.
Need an SUV? May we suggest a Hummer H3 for about $23K? Those in the market for a luxury sedan could certainly do worse than a Cadillac STS-V for $66,640.88 after some $14K in savings. Of course, practical shoppers can take five-grand off their Saturn Aura XR sedan and end up paying just $21,634.28 for the privilege. We're having way too much fun with this and there is plenty of other news we need to cover, so visit this site, find your best deal and leave it in the comments. Update: fixed spelling mistake in the title, thanks guys!
[Sources: Kicking Tires, GM]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Nick 10:37AM (8/21/2008)
Typos are bad this morning guys...
I guess this is one way to make people want to work for GM!
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Jim in Tampa 10:47AM (8/21/2008)
I thought I was lacking caffiene in my system because the "of" in the title didn't make sense to me. Then I realized the typo and decided my caffiene intake was sufficient!
Monkey 11:03AM (8/21/2008)
Jim, probably better not to criticise people's typos and then make one twice in your reply! :)
More *caffeine* might help.
Matt 11:10AM (8/21/2008)
Monkey, are you British? Here in the States we Yanks put replace the 's' with a 'z' in criticize.
taipeileviathan 11:18AM (8/21/2008)
thanks for making the first comment be about their typos... with any luck, they'll start paying some attention to the embarrassing frequency at which they pop up and do something about it.
Dan 11:45AM (8/21/2008)
Yeah, right. Go to the dealer and try to buy it. They won't sell it to you, even with today's economy. I tried twice at several dealers to buy a regular C6 when they came out and was denied the sale AS A GM EMPLOYEE and that was in Michigan. Went to 3 different dealers. None would sell at employee pricing. They said they'd rather keep the car.
azzo45 12:04PM (8/21/2008)
Then REPORT the dealer to GM Dan! They have to participate in the Dealer program or GM can toss them from the dealership network. Believe me GM would LOVE to drop dealers, especially in MI
I worked for GM a few years back (before layoffs) & I priced a '06 Corvette with z51 package... stickered about 52K my price was $41,500!
The 72K Z06 price includes a LOADED model... drop OnStar & other small luxuries & the MSRP starts @ $68,500 for a Z06... then the price drop!!a
Dave T. 12:16PM (8/21/2008)
Dan,
If you read our post you'll see that we called dealers and they did say they'd honor the employee pricing on the Z06. We thought the same thing. One dealer said he had 8 on the lot.
Torrent 12:52PM (8/21/2008)
Better yet, the Cobalt SS is 19K where I live!
A Loaded Silverado 3500HD LTZ is only 28K.
haha I love employee pricing.
BigMcLargeHuge 10:43AM (8/21/2008)
Hotcakes anyone?
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Mr. O 10:48AM (8/21/2008)
Hey Jeremy, did you mean $10,000 "OFF"?
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wslcrew 10:49AM (8/21/2008)
$10000 of?? $10000 off!
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Fernando 10:50AM (8/21/2008)
Er, why is the Cadillac CTS' employee price only $3,100 under the MSRP? I would expect it to be much more than that!
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SPG 10:51AM (8/21/2008)
A lot of people with better things to do crying about typos this morning.
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Fernando 10:51AM (8/21/2008)
Er, why is the Cadillac CTS' price only $3100 less than the MSRP? Shouldn't the savings be higher?
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Mike 11:11AM (8/21/2008)
Why discount the few vehicles that are selling well.
nataku83 10:56AM (8/21/2008)
Let's not forget $8500 off of Trailblazer (thanks to 6K cash back). Most of the cheaper models have had their cash back reduced to help compensate for the employee discount pricing (e.g, cobalt had 1500 cash back, now its only 500, HHR was 1750, now its 1000).
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John R 11:00AM (8/21/2008)
$63k for a Z06? Times must be hard?
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knifetramp 3:30PM (8/21/2008)
No, I think times are GREAT! I bought a loaded yellow Z06 on Saturday with 0% inerest... couldn't pass it up. This Z06 is amazing.
Travis 11:05AM (8/21/2008)
damn. that website makes me realize how much I really don't want any GM car, lol. just about the only thing that I'd be interested in would be the Solstice GXP at 26k flat, but the rest of the small/fun cars aren't that great of a deal. I remember in '05 they were offering the 9-3 Aero (WRX in different sheetmetal) for under 20g. Now it just seems like a grand or 1500 off any small fun car. No thanks. :)
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