I saw your post and thought I'd share with you my recent experience when ordering my 2021 C2S.

I personally visited and/or spoke on the phone with and often by email as well, every Porsche Dealer in California, Nevada and Arizona. There are 28 of them. My philosophy has been that if/when I'm spending this much money on a car I want to purchase "exactly" what I want and do not want to compromise by buying something a dealer has on their lot that doesn’t match what I want exactly. For example: Not wanting a sunroof, but wanting the quiet glass and the extended range fuel tank options eliminated anything any dealer presently had in stock.

It pays to educate yourself as to the terms used between Porsche USA and their Dealers when ordering cars. Ex: “Customer Order”, “Allocation” and “Commission Number”.

My first question for any Porsche Dealer I contacted was; "Do you have any current Allocations?" As of today, none of the 28 Porsche Dealers I contacted has any. This lack of an Allocation is important. Not having an Allocation in hand today, means any order you place with a Porsche Dealer at the moment is with the Dealer and has no actual documented connection with or commitment from Porsche USA. Such an order is a legitimate way of doing business on the part of the Porsche Dealer. However the car itself will almost certainly not be delivered to you until the first quarter of 2021 at the earliest. Now, this didn't stop several Porsche Dealers from telling me they did have an Allocation. Or at least they said they had an Allocation up until I actually tried to order a car. As soon as I sat down to place my order, the Allocation all of a sudden disappeared. The story being that it had “just” been taken only a few hours or a day prior. I find this sort of a "Bait and Switch" strategy to be a real problem. On my part, it calls into question anything else the Dealer might tell me in the future. I had three dealers pull this nonsense on me. Most of the Porsche Dealers were straight forward and told me that: A.) They didn't have any allocations at the moment and didn't know exactly when they would. B.) A number of Porsche Dealers said they tried (or would try) to place what they/Porsche USA calls a "Customer Order". Theoretically the point of a "Customer Order" is what essentially amounts to a “request” on the Porsche Dealers part to tell/ask Porsche USA that they have a sold car and were requesting that Porsche USA find a way to give them an Allocation. In order to submit such a "Customer Order" the Porsche Dealers I got this far with wanted between a $2,500 to $5,000 Deposits. To make an otherwise long story short, this process doesn't do anything for you except to tie you to the Dealer. I would suggest that you know who you’re getting married to before you pursue this strategy. FWIW, Porsche USA is not granting any Allocations based on a "Customer Order" at the moment. I had two different Porsche Dealers tell me that they had tried.

As for discounts, the best I was able to get or be offered/negotiated was 3.5% from MSRP (list price). What I’ was offered ranged from no discount to 2%, 2.5% and 3.5%. But even then, the Devil can be in the details. Make sure the Porsche Dealer prints out an itemized summary sheet of "exactly" what you will be writing a check for before you plunk down a deposit. The “Out The Door” (OTD) price is what I’m always most interested in. How a Dealership gets there is their business. What I write a check for is my business. California DMV has an easy to use web site that will tell you exactly what your state fees and taxes are/will be. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/wasapp/FeeCal...28805739626746.

FWIW, I also used "Yelp" to review what others had to say about any dealer that was in Southern California. I like to see lots and lots of reviews with some detail (that is not repetitive from one review to another) that describes their experience. This tends to minimize the chance that the business or someone they hired generated these on their own.

My final decision was to go with Carlsbad Porsche for several reasons: 1.) Carlsbad Porsche never tried to give me any B.S. about their current allocation situation with Porsche USA. They were 100% honest about what they could and what they could not do and when they could do it. 2.) The "Yelp" reviews for their dealership were plentiful and they were extremely positive both for the sales department and their service department. Only one other Porsche Dealership of the 28, came close to them in this regard. 3.) They matched the best discount I could find anywhere else for a car to be ordered at 3.5%. 4.) The itemized OTD price they provided (in writing) matched what the California DMV site said it should be. Actually they were off by $6 but I'm OK with that level of honesty/accuracy. The salesperson we worked with is/was Santiago Sierra. I would recommend him and Carlsbad Porsche highly. They definitely stood out from the crowd.