I can't speak for the sport, but I was just at the dealer tonight and priced out a pretty much loaded 08 and it came to 27,080, which come in about $1000 more than what I've been looking at for the past few months.

 

The base price (MSRP) starts at $15,xxx for the sport 4x2. I was just there.

 

Try

www.jeep.com

You can play around with the on line pricing tool. Select your features and it will give you what you will see on the sticker.

 

Thanks for the help.

Amy

 

They are still showing the prices for 2007, but I think the 2008 prices should be in the same range. I know I'll have to order the 08. I was hoping to be able to order it in July, but it now looks like I may have to wait until September to order. I see it can take up to 90 days for delivery, which would mean delivery in December. This is going to be my possibly last car purchase because I will be 70 in December, and this will be my birthday present. I sure am hoping things work out so I can order it! My son-in-law is hoping too, because he'll get my Subaru Outback!

 

Good luck with your purchase. Which Patriot are you going to get? Oh! and Happy future Birthday!!

 

Not much change in net

My dealer said the net change would be about $500. They changed around some of the option packages which could effect the price up a little. CRX seems to work in increments like that from their experience. There are usually 2 hikes a year of about $500 on the base. The first comes at the model year change and the second comes at mid year. I believe them because my family has been doing business with them for 25 years now. They are pretty accurate on stuff like that. the only dealer I know that will show me dealer invoice and ACTUAL cost. Gotta love the small town dealers.

 

More crappy news

Well, after 5 weeks of waiting so far I received news from CRX that my order got rejected and had to be resubmitted because the order was based on 07 options and they have changed for 08.

1. Vinyl seats are no longer available on the 08's
2. Fog Lamps are now part of a premium tire and handling group (significantly more expensive as well because of the new grouping)
3. Full sized spare is now part of the Towing group. (what that has to do with it I don't know because I ordered the Towing group.

The most maddening part of this is they just didn't flag my order for updates, they rejected it from the system which means I now go back to the end of the line and estimated delivery is now mid October.

I called CRX customer service and read them the riot act and they are checking what they can do to at least restore my position in the queue. Depending on the result, I might just cancel my order. This is ridiculous. My dealer seems to think CRX may be doing this on purpose to make their backlog and inventory numbers look better.

So, if your Patriot order hasn't already been marked for production before the July 13th, you may want to contact your dealer and have them check on it. You too could end up at the end of the line.

 

Well, after 5 weeks of waiting so far I received news from CRX that my order got rejected and had to be resubmitted because the order was based on 07 options and they have changed for 08.

1. Vinyl seats are no longer available on the 08's
2. Fog Lamps are now part of a premium tire and handling group (significantly more expensive as well because of the new grouping)
3. Full sized spare is now part of the Towing group. (what that has to do with it I don't know because I ordered the Towing group.

The most maddening part of this is they just didn't flag my order for updates, they rejected it from the system which means I now go back to the end of the line and estimated delivery is now mid October.

I called CRX customer service and read them the riot act and they are checking what they can do to at least restore my position in the queue. Depending on the result, I might just cancel my order. This is ridiculous. My dealer seems to think CRX may be doing this on purpose to make their backlog and inventory numbers look better.

So, if your Patriot order hasn't already been marked for production before the July 13th, you may want to contact your dealer and have them check on it. You too could end up at the end of the line.

I hope this doesn't happen to me. I ordered min for mid Feb though when I return from overseas, so I guess it won't matter. My dealer did point out some options that changed though, so I can't see why your dealer didn't have the same info. However, I just ordered mine last week, so more info was probably available.

 

Okay so I called the dealer. I had just called yesterday! I talked to the guy who's selling me mine. He said he hadn't heard anything at this point of that happening, he said it doesn't mean it hasn't happened. He said when the sales manager gets back they'll check mine out.

 

MrSensible:

If CRX is bouncing its customers to make the numbers look better - well, I would write CRX and tell them I am here to help. Let me cancel my order. There, does thata feel better now CRX? This will really help your numbers. In fact, if you can cheese-off enough customers, well, there just may be no backlog whatsoever. Perfect.

/rant off

 

That's got a be a neat job you have!!