Find Hyundai Dealers in Sacramento, California

Thanks to this forum I got some great tips. I finally bought a new Santa fe 2010 GLS model. It has cargo net/floormat. My final price including tax title and license came out 22,000. This is Sacramento CA. All the dealers I talked to couldn't match this price. Only one dealer agreed. Its a basic car with no add ons. Any thoughts in how I did? Thanks agian to all the folks who shared their experience.

flywin1: I'm sure some of the laws governing this somewhat-shady practice varies by state. To my knowledge, a car can always be considered "new" as long as it has never been titled. However, a dealer MUST always honestly and openly disclose all mileage. It completely sucks that this happened to you. The only advice I could offer is for you to contact your local Better Business Bureau. They probably won't be able to help you directly, but I'm sure they can provide some resources for you to consider. Contacting them would be a great first step. As for your question about demo cars: I talked to my friend again today about your post (my friend who I mentioned in my previous post who used to be a salesman at a local Ford dealership) and he said that, in Virginia, demos can be sold as "new" as long as there has not been any major damage or repairs on the car. "Major repairs" only include those where a claim was filed with the dealer's insurance company. If it was just a minor repair, the dealer probably had his own shop fix it, and no one would ever know anyway. I hope some of that information helps. Please keep posting and let us know what happens.

Just run a carfax on it. It will tell you when the car was originally titled, where and when it was "resold".

Hi james1982, if the demo car is techinically "new" because it has never been titled, then what do the dealer write on the purchasing contract? New or Used?

We like the color, Cocoa Metallic. We though it is new as the sale manager kept telling us; and the car was placed in the area where the new cars were and not where the used car section was. Yes, I am looking for any possible ways I can afford in getting the legal help. Also, I am sharing the pain experience is to warn other vehicle shoppers. Don't believe what the sales say. An unregistered vehicles regularly used or operated as demonstrators in the sales work of a dealer or unregistered vehicles regularly used or operated by a manufacturer in the sales or distribution work of such manufacturer is defined as a "used vehicle" by CA law. (Wish I knew it before.)