Read through this & here is my 2 cents.
I work for a large dealership so have a bit of incite into way px ‘profit’ works
a lot has been mentioned on page 1 & above but anyway.
£2000 profit can be broken down like this:
£200-£300 approx for a warranty (typical 1yr major mechanical and structural)
£250-£500 set aside to haggle with new potential customer or move margin into customers part ex to enhance the potential customers part ex
£200-£500 overallowance to enable write downs as it is a specialist Car that dealer will expect to sit about for a few weeks before sale (especially this time of year)
VAT then gets paid on any actual profit made.
So yes yes the dealer will make money, how much money entirely depends on how long Car takes to sell, if new customer haggles a hard deal, if new customer has a part ex and what type etc etc
it really isn’t as clear cut as ‘oh they gave me this for it, and selling price is this...’
money isnt in the price it’s in the finance the cars attract.