I'm close enough to how we cost that I can tell you, morfiend, that your intuiton is entirely correct. Beyond that, I can tell you little else but that you will never see methods like this work in any but excpetional cases.
I understand your a Ford guy,I was at one time too. I also worked at the dealer level as did my wife. Not quite sure what you mean by "methods" unless your refering to the video,which I watched for about 30 seconds and turned it off as it was rediculess.
Would it be fair to say that I'm fairly close on the percentages,without incentives of course?
I know for fact that most salesmen get performance based perks,that new car they drive doesnt come for free! End of month can be interesting to see the salesmen trip over themselves to get any deal on paper so they dont have to pay for said perks.
I suppose I should have qualified the dealer cost item,yes I know there's the on paper cost and the actual cost but then only the dealer principle sees the "actual" cost.
Soon I hope to purchase a new to me car/suv,I will test out the new fords to see if I like them but if the prices are even close,I think I'll end up with a honda or toyota. I own an accord now and a E class,that accord has been the best car I've ever owned. It just had it's 53rd oil change......
..... I think it's finally broken in!