Find Acura Dealers in Bakersfield, California

You can see my posting yesterday for details on the 2011 MDX w/ Tech I purchased yesterday. I priced almost every dealership (Internet/Fleet Sales teams) in CA (San Diego to NorCal, as far East as Bakersfield and Sacramento), and also in Las Vegas. It turned out, the two dealerships that I found to be the easiest to work with and most reasonably priced were the closest ones to me -- Center Acura and Glendale Acura. I didn't go with the Advanced Package because I felt the additional features weren't worth the premium. (Also, this car is for my wife, and her needs are quite simple and she wouldn't appreciate anything beyond the Tech package.) I wasn't considering the Entertainment package so I never priced it with any of the dealerships. (I'm not sold on having built in screens and a DVD player given all of the portable gadgets the kids have already; but I'm sure the folks that spring for the Entertainment packages have good reason for doing so.) The pricing below isn't from one specific dealer, but the best pricing I found overall. All pricing includes destination charges and wheel locks. All offers came with a price match guarantee (with caveats of course), and some came with offers to beat competitive written offers by $300 to $500 (still with caveats). For the record, I never bothered with trying to price match dealer against dealer to whittle the price down -- it's not how I would like to be treated, so I didn't go after it myself. Here's the pricing: 2011 MDX Base Pricing: $38,750 2011 MDX Technology Pricing: $42,000 2011 MDX Advanced Pricing: $47,500 As I mentioned in my earlier post, I conducted all correspondence in email, received offers in email, and only called the dealership to discuss color options and set an appointment to see the car. I was respectful of them and their time, and both Center and Glendale Acura were respectful of me and my time. Please don't contact me asking for which specific dealership had what price, etc. I've pretty much cleared out my inbox and deleted all of the emails I received, and it's easy enough to contact the dealerships directly. :) Once again, I highly recommend Center or Glendale Acura if you're in S. CA. They're both class acts. Best of luck in your MDX purchasing adventures!

Hi all, Like many of you, I used this forum to help me with my recent TL purchase. In appreciation for the info I used, I wanted to share with you about our experience. We live in a remote part of CA, nearest Acura dealers are minimum 2 hour drive. We had test driven one back in spring, and had decided we wanted a Black/black w/o navigation. After seeing on the board last week that the 06's were coming in within a couple of months, on Friday evening I sent quote requests to Stevens Creek, Seaside, Fresno, Bakersfield, Ventura, Calabasas, and Santa Monica. I never heard from Fresno, Bakersfield, or Stevens Creek. From the board I gleaned that the Bay Area was quite a bit higher than LA, so didn't expect to go there. Instead of a quote, I received an invite from Seaside to come up and test drive the car. Sounded pretty sleazy, I just replied that we weren't going anywhere until we had a firm deal. Never heard back. Basically same response from Ventura. Nothing much happened on Saturday. Sunday morning as I prepared to mow the lawn the wife yelled out the door "hey looks like we're going to LA today". We had received a quote from Santa Monica for $29,999, including destination which was about $1250 less than what I was hoping to pay. Also rec'd a quote from Calabasas about $1500 higher, when I called him and told him the Santa Monica quote he told me he couldn't match. I called Keyes and they offered to beat the price from Santa Monica, which had went down to $29760. The manager from Keyes confirmed they would beat the $29760. For us, Keyes would save about 1.5 hours in the car roundtrip vs. Santa Monica, so I was not going to quibble too much if they only beat by $1. We got there after a horrible traffic-filled ordeal and the car had wheel locks and splash guards, which they didn't tell us and then they raised their quote by ~$300 to cover those additions. My wife flipped out. The problem was that it was later than we had wanted and we were going to have problems getting over to Santa Monica to close a deal with hungry kids, etc etc. I also did want the tire locks (mud guards neutral), so we finally got them to agree to $32400 out the door (our sales tax rate is 7.25%). The manager comes back and says they need to make it $32459. I couldn't believe they were quibbling over $60. However, we had no leverage at that point and we were getting a price below what we had imagined, so I said ok. They offered some sales BS about how they were losing money, etc. and I was thinking "how can you lose money and be building this huge brand new facility across the street" but I didn't say anything. The only thing I can think of is we weren't financing with them, and we used a credit card for part of the down payment, and I think they knew we weren't going for an extended warranty, paint protection, etc. so they had no way of making more money from us. So in conclusion, we got a better price than we intially expected once we decided to buy the TL. I didn't think that Keyes was as up front as I would have liked. Just from correspondence and phone conversations I think Santa Monica would have been more straight up (?), but we couldn't justify the extra driving time to give them our business.

LAST MAY 21ST,FRIDAY AROUND 930PM MY NEW ACURA TL DELIVERED TO MY HOUSE AND ITS UNBELIEVABLE. THIS IS THE BEST CAR BUYING EXPERIENCE I WILL NEVER FORGET. GOT WHITE DIAMOND PEARL WITH PARCHMENT INT 5 SPEED AUTO W/O NAV FOR $30,995 WHICH IS $695 OVER THE INVOICE PRICE WHICH I BELIEVED IS A FAIR DEAL AND NOT JUST THE PRICE BUT THE BUYING EXPERIENCE. I THINK THE PEOPLE THAT I MADE BUSINESS WITH IS THE ONE WHO MADE THE DIFFERENCE. THATS WHY THEY'RE THE ACURA'S #1 VOLUME DEALER IN SO CAL, STA MONICA ACURA ,MY SINCERE THANKS TO SMACURA FROM A FAMILY IN BAKERSFIELD.

I am taking a deliverly today from Superior Acura Bakersfield for little over $42K O.T.D for a Touring/Nav. The Sales person is driving to N. Califonia at this very moment and should be here this afternoon. I will update after the deliverly.