SOCAL peeps - "NEW" New Century Dealer to be completed in early 2005! =)

[MITE46]

Almost killed myself waking up so early at 9:30AM today to attend the ground breaking of the NEW New Century BMW Center/Dealer located at the intersection of Main Street and Alantic Blvd in San Gabriel . Century West BMW(Universal City) and New Century BMW(Alhambra) have been around for 15+ years and arguably the best dealers in the LA/SOCAL area...I am probably very biased of course =)

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Anyway, the new building is going to be awesome. It has a combined lot coverage of 5+ acres, over 100+ employees, 3 levels, 50+ service stalls, 4 lane entrance into the service area, massive retail/*****sale parts department...Construction offically started today and will be completed in 2005!

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Here are the details of the model the architects made...each level comes off...very cool stuff...

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[MITE46]

1st Floor: Show Room Floor, Service Entrance, Parts, Waiting Rooms, Service Bays

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2nd Floor: CPO Lot, Exec Offices

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3rd Floor: New Car Lot

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For those of you who still don't know where its located, its right across from the Edwards Palace Theatre...

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Here's me and my recent fetish with convertibles...

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[MITE46]

Then the offical ceremony started...a few people talked...

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BMW Regional VP...

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Mayor...

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First round...

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Then unimportant people like me...

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Look what I found...

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So the moral of the story is...if you're looking for a BMW, get it from New Century...if you already have one...get it serviced there =)

[Fokker]

Great thread...

I got my car from New Century in Alhambra. Great sales experience (all negotiations done in 10 minutes), great deal and great service.

Will definitely buy another one from them in the future.

How did you become part of the ceremony?

[Presns323i]

nice car

[stlgrym3]

i absolute am a big fan of new century, they take care of me every single time i took my car there for service although i never bought any car from them they provided me with loaner every single time. i promise i will buy my next bimmer there.

[Presns323i]

theres a BMW/Mini dealership they started builing a few months ago down here.... Bob smith bmw i think?
its in agoura, its just about done, it looks like it'll be open in a month

[bobble]

Anyway, the new building is going to be awesome. It has a combined lot coverage of 5+ acres, over 100+ employees, 3 levels, 50+ service stalls, 4 lane entrance into the service area, massive retail/*****sale parts department...Construction offically started today and will be completed in 2005!


Was the *****sale parts department a Freudian slip or what???

[TeKNiC330]

bought both of my bimmers from them. always gave me a kick ass deal.

[MITE46]

Fokker - Family Friends...lots of other interconnections...

Presns323i - thx

bobble - hahah yeah...laugh it up =)

[Fisch330ciTopasBlau]

nice, we can expect continued markup's of 5k on the M3 and 10-15k on the M5-M6 and at least 30k on whatever z8's are still around to help defray some of the cost of building this monster.

[TeKNiC330]

Originally posted by Fisch330ciTopasBlau
nice, we can expect continued markup's of 5k on the M3 and 10-15k on the M5-M6 and at least 30k on whatever z8's are still around to help defray some of the cost of building this monster.

My sales guy offered my dad a few g's off of a new M5 they had on the showrroom floor.

[Fisch330ciTopasBlau]

I'm just talking sticker cost, not what kind of deal you can possibly get when you start haggling or have previous business with them.

Century West seems to like the markup more that I have noticed.

[TeKNiC330]

Originally posted by Fisch330ciTopasBlau
I'm just talking sticker cost, not what kind of deal you can possibly get when you start haggling or have previous business with them.

Century West seems to like the markup more that I have noticed.

No haggling, just a quick question my dad ask.

"How much will you take off of MSRP for that M5?"

[MITE46]

Fisch330ciTopasBlau - They're building this new structure because the current New Century is wayyy over crowded, lead times for service appointments are weeks later...the regional VP mentioned that sales are increasing 5% per year(1100+ new sold last year, so about 100 a month)....there are just too many BMW's in the surrounding cities needing service...I don't really see the connection you're trying to make...I don't know about you but, I rather get my car serviced at a dealer where they don't have to constantly move cars around, park cars between service bays, etc....simply because it's overcrowded...my two cents

[Fisch330ciTopasBlau]

someone will have to pay for it is all, and that someone is us. :)

[codex57]

Sounds like New Century's sales is awesome. I heard some bad stories about their service though, particularly one involving a dude's M5.

Shelly BMW is expanding too. Gonna be pretty huge as well. They need it badly too. I think they have like 3 customer parking spaces currently as it is.

[egyptnads]

sounds great. i got my car from new century as well

[RandyL]

Bought 2 cars there. And I really like there service. :thumbup:

[David328Ci]

I got my M3 from New Century (Alhambra) too. Eddie at New Century rocks! :)

[HKE46Boy]

Their new complex look very similar to Century West BMW in Hollywood

[bbkat]

Originally posted by David328Ci
I got my M3 from New Century (Alhambra) too. Eddie at New Century rocks! :)

Got my Euro Delivery 330cic through Eddie. He da man!

[MITE46]

Well 2005 is almost over and...of course its not done...few delays here and there...but it's coming along...hopefully finish by 2006...and hopefully I can take delivery of a new e90 M3 =)...Crossing my fingers!

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[haig]

dude is this dealer the one by the mazda dealer?

[m330]

are they gonna be a mini dealer as well do you know?