A couple of comments to what everyone else has already stated. First, licensing and title (in CA) should be approximately 1.4% of the selling price of the vehicle.
Jeboa's said it is 1.6% so this may vary by County in CA.
CA Sales tax (a real PITA and enough to drive a life long resident to seek residence in another state) is 8% of the car's selling price. Again, this may vary by County.
Luxo tax is as previously stated, however I was told it will go down in 2002 (calender) year to 3% of the amount over $38k and phased out completely by the year 2004.
As a rule of thumb, multiply the actual vehicle selling price by 10.6% and that should be close to what you pay to the CA legislature for "the great privledge" of living in this wonderful state.
As was stated by others, there is usually a courtesy delivery fee paid to the dealer who handles the delivery and does the "PDI" (pre delivery & inspection?). This MUST be done on the car before customer pickup. I would presume the CA smog check is included in the "PDI" fee, as well as filing all the paperwork with the DMV to have the tags and registration issued to the purchaser, although this is usually broken out separately as a "document fee".
A smog test at time of customer delivery is undoubtedly a rip off, as these cars are already 50 state legal, NLEV, ie, a national low emissions vehicle, and certified by GM to meet CA emissions. I believe there might even be a CA smog test done at the factory IAW with this certification.
I have no idea what purpose a pre-delivery smog test serves other than to further fill the coffers of the state treasury and add to the rage of taxpapers. /phpBB/images/smiles/icon_flaming.gif
Since you are doing NCM delivery, things may be different for that, but should not affect the financials regarding a CA resident much if any.
As an aside, on the "courtesy" delivery subject, let me just say I am absolutely appauled at the way certain dealers behave in shirking this responsibility. This is a 'real sore subject' with certain dealers and some absolutely refuse to be a part of it.
I personally would love to "black list" a few dealer I know of here in CA for turning their backs on would-be customers because they lost the sale. This is downright bad PR. However, the main reason such dealers in Norcal are losing sales (IMHO) is because they are obviously price gouging Corvette buyers. /phpBB/images/smiles/icon_flaming.gif /phpBB/images/smiles/icon_flaming.gif /phpBB/images/smiles/icon_flaming.gif
