Dealer cost

If you want to know the true cost a dealership pays for its car, buy a new one, then the next day sell it back to them, and that price is as close to knowing the actual price the dealer really paid.

Between dealer hold back, mfr rebates, sales incentives, floor plan, and multiple other programs, the consumer will never know how much the dealer pays for the vehicle, regardless of what "invoice" papers they show you, or what you pull off the Internet. Very few people inside the dealership actually know the final price paid.