I'm not sure if anyone noticed, but under the heading of <b>The Audi European Delivery price of your vehicle includes the following services</b>, the following line was recently removed:

* Destination charge for transportation of your vehicle from the Audi vehicle-processing center to your selected Audi Dealer

Prior to the edit, the above quoted line was listed between the bullets about wharf charges and roadside assistance.<ul><li><a href="http://www.audiusa.com/audi/us/en2/experience/european_delivery/program_benefits.html">European Delivery Program Benefits</a></li></ul>

On a $40K car, that's only a $2K discount which is probably the same deal you can get negotiating. I don't kno wabout MB but BMW dealers definitely negotiate prices beyond the 7% ED discount. I was offered 10% off MSRP at my BMW dealer before I started talking numbers and ended up with an 11.8% discount off MSRP. For BMW cars, destination charge is same for ED and non-ED cars. I think MB still does not charge destiantion on ED cars and gives you 7% off on qualifyting vehicles.

Audi needs to sweeten their deal if they expect to get more takers.