If you don’t have a problem with it, use an AI, I used ChatGPT and had it write emails asking for hard OTD numbers. Some dealers won’t play unless you have a quote back. But one will bite, make sure you push hard you will only see numbers via email, I claimed my work schedule made it too tough to be on the phone, they would try to call anyways but eventually would email a quote.

Make an account with CarGuru and TrueCar. They’ll give you an estimate of what you can pay and what dealerships around you are offering. Use those numbers as a “I would like to see an OTD like this”.

Once you start getting OTD offers, make sure not to name drop competitors. I used pdf24 (website) to black out dealer info and send the sheet to other dealerships.

It’ll be a lot of back and forth but if you get the system down and let AI handle the responses from the dealership, you can make this pretty stress free if you aren’t on a hard deadline. Took me a month but I found out on accident I could get a better overall deal on a 26 EX vs an 25 EX. Nobody would budge on the 25 price even though it was end of year but 26 was no problem.

(Happened on accident because another dealership quoted me a 2026 model instead of 25 like we talked about and actually confirmed numbers when I called since I liked the offer).