$5k markup and they wouldn’t let you test drive it? What a bunch of clowns!

OP, you should have told the salesman that you'll be back in six months, when they have twenty RDXs sitting on the lot and they finally decide to pull their heads out of their asses.

give it 30 days and that market adjustment will be gone. I went to Lexus as the wife wanted Tory a RX350 before the RDX dropper and they had a car with $8K in dealer BS options and they were pushing for such a great deal because it was $8K discounted, yeah right.

in 90 days the new RDX will be plentiful and the discounting will get real.

me too. I have no immediate need for a car, but I want to upgrade to one with the new driving aids. I am targeting for the end of the year. By then, things will have settled down.

This is the best thing to do. Not only do you get a much better deal, you also get a later production run model.


In terms of your dealer having a 5K markup, that’s hilarious, especially on an Acura. This is going to be the Accord scenario all over again for some of these dealers. Remember how poor Accord sales were (still are?) for a while because the lease/finance rates were ridiculous? So Honda started dropping large rebates and price reductions to move more units. It seems to me like Honda/Acura have a tendency to be rather greedy each time a new model comes out. I can understand being more unwilling to drop the price but don’t insult people with a 5-10k markup,

I love Hondas. I have had at least one Honda in my driveway since 1981.

But an Acura is a Honda in a suit, or on steroids. My Integra was a Civic that could literally fly. My snobby nosed sister-in-law leased a TL a few generations ago, and got offended when I said it was (and it was ) an Accord with a suit on, and a more powerful engine. She got irate. I said that that was not a put-down, that I loved Accords, and had two of them (at the time). She said it was nothing like an Accord, and her TL was made in Japan. I said, no it ain’t, it is made in Marysville Ohio, on the same line as the Accord. Look on the plate in the car.

She walked off in a huff.

Knowing that B, when she got home she must have checked it out and saw I was right. She never leased another Acura again.


That this RDX is not a CRV in a suit is very interesting to me, and makes it a whole different car. Not that a Honda in a well made suit is a bad thing, because it isn’t. But don’t tell that B that.

I know, when I saw the picture of the window sticker at $51K, I was thought oh lord, here we go... Reminds me of just about two years ago when a fully loaded RDX was only about $42K, hence, the price hike, and yikes... But I find that wildly high from where it left off and whoever waits a few months shouldn't take that price ouch...

And Honda and Acura know that they have a following of guys like us that walk around innocently with dozens of wallets filled with hundred dollar bills and a man bag with another 5 to 15 grand in it too, so maybe we should dress poorer on car shopping days:/

I totally agree, and VERY cool story, loved that read, it made my day!!!

Where I live, in the beautiful Hudson Valley, there are always multiple dealers for everything except Maseratis and Lambos, etc., I have 4 Acura, 4 BMW, and 4 MB dealers within 25 miles. My brother, who lives in Iowa, is usually stuck with one dealer, so his options are limited. In fact, there are several brands he won’t buy because the dealerships are horrible.

I feel for people like that, but there is little they can do about it.

Maybe he can fly in for a visit and buy his new RDX in the Hudson Valley and then drive it back to Iowa. It‘ll be a first-class ride all the way back.