I received a card in the mail yesterday from Mazda touting 0% APR financing for 60 months plus up to $1000 APR Cash and Owner Loyalty Cash. To zero interest is on any Mazda, but the cash is only applicable to certain models. It is about 2 months too late for any of that nonsense.
There was also an offer for a $25 gift card for test driving any Mazda. It came from the dealer in Columbia which is 65 miles away, so a round trip divided by the 27 MPG of the Miata (can’t expect me to drive a brand new Hyundai onto the lot) times $3.50 a gallon of gas comes to $17. We can go to any dealer, so we could drive to the Augusta store which is only 39 miles away that way we are spending less than half of the card value on gas, but we were entirely displeased with the test drive process the last time (and that was when we were actually buying a car.)
We are probably headed over Augusta way this Saturday anyway, so if the process turns out to be as painless as it was at the Kia dealer we just might take a Mazda 6 for a spin. After building one online and optioning it out as close to the Sonata SE we now own, the list price of a Mazda 6i Touring was right in the ballpark price-wise and the dealer’s online inventory shows they have one in stock.
Sure hope I don’t like it.