Vegafayce

First off, thank you so much for doing this. I've been stuck to going with my gut on how to purchase a new car and such, granted I've been researching for a long time.

Please help me out now.

Here's my story and I'll make it simple. First time buyer here and I'm trying to steer away from paying more monthly than I can handle. I'm interested in the Mazdaspeed3 and online at one dealer about 25 miles away from me they have a base model for about 22k. That's their "webprice" or "web deal" or whatever. Dealers closer to me have the same car (features I'm assuming are the same) for about 24k and up. So after reading this I obviously see I need to do certain things such as have someone come to me and don't show too much interest in a particular car and what not. Is it a viable strategy to print the price of the cheaper dealer and bring it to the closer dealer and negotiate price from there or what? I'm pretty sure they all have competitive pricing so they will drop it to get my business but should I try and dip lower from that or what? Also, should I avoid saying what I want my max car payment to be? And if so how do I avoid that.

I'm young, and need some assistance and with your tips that I have read so far I feel a bit more comfortable I just need this little bit of more info you can give me. Help me out please! And thanks for all the other tips!