ClubCJ - The CJ Lancer Club

This is going to be a sticky with the best known prices for CJ Lancers all over Australia. Please contribute your prices and please don't lie about it. Please note that it's not about who got the best deal but it's to help our newest members who are buying to join us. It might even help with 2nd hand pricing. Please follow the format below in your reports:

State:
Model:
Extras Offered:
Price (Drive Away):
Member:
Date:

As you will notice, I did not include a field for dealer name. This is INTENTIONAL as this isn't an advertising post for any dealer.
Furthermore, please avoid posting of prices for Ex-Demo, 2nd hand buys and those with trade-in offers as these will probably be a one off price. If you want to share the prices you got, you can find a thread for it here.
So BRAND NEW cars only.

Members wishing to follow up on the price list here will be able to contact the member reporting the price via the PM function. Following your posts, I will update this first post with your reports.
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VIC
Model: ES Auto Hatch or Sedan 2009
Extras Offered: ReverseSensors + FloorMats + Window Tint + FullTankofPetrol
Price (Drive Away): A$25,600
Member: ofey
Date: Mar'09

Model: VR Auto Hatch or Sedan 2009
Extras Offered: ReverseSensors + FloorMats + Window Tint + Lock Nuts + FullTankofPetrol
Price (Drive Away): A$26,900
Member: ofey
Date: Mar'09

Model: Platinum Ed. Hatch or Sedan 2009
Extras Offered: ReverseSensors + FloorMats + FullTankofPetrol
Price (Drive Away): A$28,000
Member: ofey
Date: Mar'09

Model: VRX Auto Sedan 2.0 2008
Extras Offered: ReverseSensors + FloorMats + BootTray + Safety Triangle + FullTankofPetrol
Price (Drive Away): A$31,234.56
Member: ofey
Date: Jan'08

Model: Olympic Edition Auto Sedan 2.0 2008
Extras Offered: ReverseSensors + FootwellIllum + FloorMats + WindowTint + LipSpoiler + iPodInt + BootTray + FullTankofPetrol + SafetyTriangle + 1ServiceFOC
Price (Drive Away): A$34,567.89
Date: Apr'08

NSW
Model: Olympic Edition Auto Sedan 2008
Extras Offered: Front Windows Tinted+FullTankofPetrol+$1K Fuel Card.
Price (Drive Away): A$ 31,824.18
Member: Hoggy
Date: Apr'08

Model: VRX Auto Sedan 2.0 White 2008
Extras Offered: Aft/Market Alarm, Front Windows Tinted, Undercar & Paint Prot. & First Service.
Price (Drive Away): A$ 30,990.00
Member: Ozie
Date: Feb'08

WA
Model: Aspire 2009
Extras Offered: VRX Spoiler+ReverseSensors + FloorMats + TowBar + FullTankofPetrol
Price (Drive Away): A$34,500
Member: wild_weasel
Date: Jan'09

State: SA, Australia
Model: MY09 VRX Manual Sedan
Extras Offered: Sun&Sound Package, mats, bootliner, full tank petrol
Price (Drive Away): AUD 30,000
Member: nlilith
Date: 31 Dec 2008

Very useful thread, great idea imo. I should be contributing to the list soon

Just a suggestion, maybe also post the build date of the car?

State: VIC
Model: ES CVT Lightning Blue
Extras Offered: Curtain and Side Airbags
Price (Drive Away): AUD 23500
Member: WSL520
Date: Jan 2009

State: NSW, Australia
Model: VRX, CVT White
Extras Offered: Aft/Market Alarm, Front Windows Tinted, Undercar & Paint Prot. & First Service.
Price (Drive Away): AUD 30,990
Member: Ozie
Built/Date: Feb 2008
Purchase Date: July 2008

State: NSW, Australia
Model: MY09 VRX Manual Lightning Blue
Extras Offered: Sunroof, Rockford Fosgate, MMCS, Door plates/sills, Floor mats
Price (Drive Away): AUD 33,150
Member: daveee
Purchase Date: Feb 2009
Build date: 08 - unsure of month yet.

Drive away price is slightly inaccurate due to trade in (less discounting on car, more value put towards trade in. Worked out to be around 32,000 drive away but they wanted to keep the price of buying the car higher for their sales figures)

VR Sportsback wrote:Very useful thread, great idea imo. I should be contributing to the list soon
Just a suggestion, maybe also post the build date of the car?

Most of the time, the purchase date should reflect the build date of the car already but point it well taken... . Will adjust.

State: NSW, Australia
Model: MY09 ES Manual Black
Extras Offered: FullTankofPetrol + First Service
Price (Drive Away): AUD 20,700
Member: slickthug
Built: Dec 2008
Purchased: Jan 2009

Probably better off having build date and purchase date fields? This will effect pricing quite a bit.

The other thing I've found out through my dealership is that prices are going to be quite high from now on and it's not as much of a buyer's market as some would like to believe. You might be surprised thinking that they have to shift cars still to survive but that's not the way to think about it.

Here's the way it looks from a dealership end. If you ordered an ES today, you'd probably get one in May or June of this year since MMA is now cutting imports into the country due to projected poorer sales and falling A$. For them there's too much risk to leave cars sitting in the car lots. They're already running short of VRs as we speak.

Our dollar has fallen quite dramatically and A$25K in Yen doesn't go very far. The dealership, regardless of the dollar value, still has to make a profit else no point bringing cars to the showroom or service lots and leaving it there.

You might insist on getting a great deal but also bear in mind that the dealer will not sell and lose money at the same time. No point doing so for them. You'll get a couple of deals here and there but not everyone can get a good deal. If every dealer only made a small cut or broke even on each sale, his dealership would soon fold.

Until investor confidence returns and people are willing to spend, we won't get out of the current financial situation.

I hate looking at this thread... I got taken to the cleaners....
(But that was a year ago... right before the economic meltdown)

LOLZ

State: SA, Australia
Model: MY09 VRX Manual Sedan
Extras Offered: Sun&Sound Package, mats, bootliner, full tank petrol
Price (Drive Away): AUD 30,000
Member: nlilith
Built: late 2008
Purchased: 31 Dec 2008

NSW
Model: MY09 VRX 2.4 ltr manual Sportback
Extras Offered: Reverse sensors, floor mats, plastic boot liner, premium number plates (save $32!!)
Price (Drive Away): A$29,500
Member: The_Bandit
Build date: October 08
Purchase date: November 08

State: VIC
Model: 2008 Lancer ES
Extras Offered: Floor Mats (what a steal xD), paid for hirise spoiler +550
Price (Drive Away): 23050
Member: Tadz0rz
Date: July 31st 2008

State: QLD
Model: ES Sportback Black Mica
Extras Offered: 5th Dimension (Protection Pack) Tinted Windows
Price (Drive Away): 18,500 AUD (with trade In of 1998 Impreza RX sedan, This car was not a big bargaining tool as It was in horrible condition).
Member: ESSportback
Date: Dec08/Jan09

*Edit* They said all up I was looking at roughly $24,000 on road.

So what did you get for the trade in (so we can actually work out what you paid for the ES)....?