I doubt either of those strategies will yield results. The RAV4 Prime and Ford Focus RS are 2 examples of many of cars that pretty much were never available for MSRP except from a select few dealerships. I'm sure a couple people will respond and say, "wait but I got a Prime at MSRP so that invalidates your comment!" Nope, they just got lucky or were OK calling 20 dealerships to find one that wasn't OK ripping their customers off.
Is it a rip off? Supply and demand. Charging more incentivized more production. Which we desperately need.
How is dealers adding additional markup to the MSRP helping improve supply?
Yeah, no. Dealerships charging more simply puts more money into the pockets of unnecessary, useless, wholly antiquated middlemen.
That's not gonna help, they're all sold out. It's part of a new crypto consensus algorithm called Proof of Transport (PoT). You need a mean truck to get the most rewards.
It's really hard to get any new car right now at MSRP and the dealers that let you place a deposit may pull it from under you if someone is willing to pay more