My opinion, reinforced by some local dealers (NOT the Acura dealer here): if a dealer asks for more than MSRP, he is willing to sell your car to the highest bidder when it comes in, and tell you that it never showed up -- but he'll be glad to order you another one. I wonder if that's where some of these extremely long delivery times are coming from? I made my $500 down-payment to hold my place in line for my '01 in April, and took delivery on July 2.DaleB said: