Well we finally pulled the trigger after months of thinking about it, I'm picking up my new Black Mazda3 Saturday morning and it's pretty exciting.  We got a pretty good deal in the end after some negotiating but it was tough, we came in off of a referral so we were already getting "employee pricing", the problem being that employee pricing is higher than it used to be.  It really seems like over the past 6 months dealerships are really not negotiating as much as they used to.  Ah well, we still got some good savings on the car and they "threw in" all weather mats and wheel locks.  As a bonus we also are getting to drive around in a loaner mazda3 for this week until mine comes in (it's being delivered from Victoria) which is pretty cool and seems to be a pretty rare thing.