For that price you could literally fly to a dealer elsewhere, buy the car at MSRP, drop it off to get wrapped in ppf locally, fly back home, and when it is done fly back to pick it up and drive it home. At the end of it all you get a nice weekend road trip in your new car along with a good ppf job for the same price. WTF?
SoCal Toyota dealers are an awful bunch. I've heard really terrible things. One of them went as far as to tell me that all the SoCal dealer GMs met at the factory and agreed not to sell any Supras without a minimum markup of $15K. He said that sales folks offering cars at anything less than that are taking advantage of my "good nature" or are junior folks who know nothing better... and that when I walk into their dealership, they will rescind the offer. Just awful!!! They completely ruined the purchase experience.
There is no tax penalty, you just have the pay the tax that you would normally pay if you bought it in CA. But you have to keep in mind, out of state dealers have high documentation fees as oppose to CA which is limited to $85.00.
