How will economy impact A8 sales?
 

How bad will this be for Audi and how good for buyers?

There will be incentives, as there are now but they don’t make many, don’t sell much and not not many are out there

There also won’t be any more made this year or even possibly next

It's 20K off of a 2019 A8L right now, but I don't think the present situation will impact many A8 buyers. At this income level and given how low the #s were anyways for vehicles in this class on an annual sales perspective, I don't imagine much impact - much like how homes in the 7 figure range aren't really that impacted right now.

Went to a local dealership in Houston and sat in a 90k 2019 A8 on the showroom. Got an offer for 30% off MSRP 10 mins later without negotiating. Showed the quote to a dealership in Palo Alto and got 32% off. At this point I'm just going to wait until December and hopefully get 40% off MSRP. Tack a 10 years/ 100k miles warranty for 4.5k and I got my daily driver for the next 10 years. Hopefully Audi has the best reliability out of the 3 Germans. DO NOT accept any less than 30% off MSRP, they are desperate as no one is buying the A8.

You probably went to the dealer that I got mine from. They dropped the prices dramatically on the remaining 2019 A8’s a couple weeks ago. When they dropped the prices that had 7 in inventory. 2 1/2 weeks later they are all gone.

Audi North Houston

Audi Central Houston - evidently they all were dropping prices.

I leased my 2019 just before the pandemic early January. $28K off

The flaw in your strategy is that there won't be any 2019s left by December. The incentive for Audi is to get rid of all the leftover V6s 2019 that carried into 2020

I got my 2019 with a V8 in December for 24% off at Audi Central, which I thought was insane because the V8’s were so rare at that point. Heck, the sales guys at Audi West Houston and Central didn’t even know they existed and the sales manager at Audi West said Central quoted me a wrong price and that “deals” weren’t happening on V8’s. I got my $113k car for just under $86k.

Then for a couple months after Christmas, prices seemed to be up on the 2019’s, and now they’re trying to clear them all out. Audi West and Central (both are Sonic owned dealers) had about 30 2019’s a month ago when they started the aggressive deals, and they barely have any 2019’s left now.

Now I want a ‘20 with predictive active suspension hahahha