it always pays off to shop around for the best price I live in sydney,and was recently aftr an xr8 ute...but have now decided to wait for series 2. I went to one dealer a few months back,and I wanted a blueprint ute,standard in auto,that's it. one dealer quoted me 46.5k...I gave it time and said ok...and then I found out a relative works for ford and he said to c the sales guys where he works and I did and they said they will look aftr me ...he said 42 on the phone ....me and my dad went to sign the papers and he started another quote and said 43.5k....so we said stuf that...he said that he only wwould done 42k for the day he rang me and stuff....so then we visited another dealer and he dropped the price to 41.5k....then had to let it go for a while due to other commitments....but there are no friends in business...every1 is out there to make there money....so shop around and bargain ...u will cut off a fair bit off the price...ud b surprised how leanient they go. cheers guyz