There’s little question that the all-new Honda Civic Sort R is a scorching commodity. With that in thoughts, it’s no shock that some sellers are charging grasping markups on the supposedly attainable scorching hatch. One Honda vendor in Florida simply obtained caught providing a fee plan on one that will consequence within the potential proprietor paying greater than $90,000 by the top of the mortgage.

That dealership is Ocean Honda of Port Richey. It has a Sonic Grey 2023 Civic Sort R that it’s fairly happy with. It has a $20,000 “Restricted Version” markup on prime of a $43,990 ‘Market Worth Promoting Worth’ (MVSP). And simply to make clear, a market worth promoting value isn’t a producer’s urged retail value (MSRP). Although on this case, they appear to line up.

Sellers can put no matter quantity they need after it and plenty of consumers don’t know the distinction. In Ocean Honda of Port Richey’s case, they provided one buyer the possibility to pay a $20,000 down fee after which decide from three fee choices, the longest of which might equate to paying $90,803. That buyer subsequently posted the comical supply on Reddit.

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Now, that’s clearly provided that the client picked a 72-month fee plan and a $20,000 down fee. If they’d $30k and went for the shortest possibility provided by the vendor they’d “solely” pay $74,168. That’s proper, Ocean Honda of Port Richey would really like considered one of its clients to pay extra for a Civic Sort R than it could price them to purchase a Camaro ZL1, an Audi RS3, or a Porsche 718 Cayman. What a technique to earn a buyer’s enterprise…

Once more, it’s value noting that these costs are inflated as a result of rates of interest however the vendor’s $20k markup is the true drawback right here. We’d give hopeful Civic Sort R seekers recommendation on methods to cope with this however we’ll let Mr_Awesome_510, the unique poster, do it for us. Replying to a poster who knew the identical dealership and had been considering doing enterprise with them, Superior mentioned “Properly don’t name this one haha.” We couldn’t have summed it up higher.

Picture Credit score: Mr_Awesome_510 on Reddit