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The Mazda S-plan and Ford's X-plan are vehicle
pricing plans for non-Ford employees such as part
suppliers, fleet purchasers, employee friends and identified
organization members. The EAA Partner Recognition Program
gives you a pin number that verifies that you are
eligible for Ford's X-plan or Mazda's S-plan pricing. Join
at <a href=http://www.eaa.org target=new>http://www.eaa.org</a> for $40. The pin
# will also
work for Volvo, Landrover, Mercury, Lincoln and Jaguar
S-type vehicles.<br><br>Mazda prints the S-plan on the
invoice but it works out to about 1.25% below dealer
invoice. Mine was 1.27% below invoice, over $2100 below
MSRP, and over $4000 below dealer posted pricing on
similar models. One additional benefit is that they are
supossed to charge only tax, title and licensing fees, no
prep or processing charges and the like. This probably
saved another $200 over what the dealer normally adds
in.<br> <br>The only real catch is that you have to find
a dealer willing to accept the S-plan since they do
not have to do so. It is not hard to accept plan
pricing on readily available models or less popular
equiped models. It can be very hard to find a dealer that
will accept this plan on the hard to find Tribute LX &
ES models with ABS and Luxury package except on
customer ordered vehicles.
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