Can you offer any recommendations for finding a good car for close to MSRP? Any particular brands that are more reasonable these days?(You don't need to tell me about Tesla).
Whatever car it is, it's just a car that a dealer is trying to move off its lot.
Whatever the asking price, the care sales person would rather get a cut of a small markup than zero percent of a dream price.
The goal of a dealership is to not maintain inventory.
Because the factory will make more cars.
Now the practical tip: use the power of the internet to contact individual sales people about what you want. I mean a few hundred within an arbitrary radius.
You can always fly to pick up a car.
You can always have a car delivered.
The cost is rounding error on the price.
Sales people who sell a lot of cars don't need to make their entire nut on you.
Good luck.
Also, look at out of state dealers. Not sure where you live, but huge markups aren’t a thing anymore, everywhere. A one-way plane ticket in the US isn’t expensive compared to huge markups.
Might help, especially with the list of most inventory.