shady car dealerships

[2006fronty]

The day before Turkey day my wife got rearended and her Yaris was totaled. We checked out Mazda3's and she was set on getting one. I checked with all of the local dealers what fleet price was, MSRP is $18,005 and every dealerships fleet price was around $16,500-$16,800. We ended up paying $17,000 because the closest dealer had the color she wanted, I figured no big deal it's only a couple hundred bucks.

They told me I was approved at 6.99%, which was pretty damn close to what my credit union offered, so I didn't really mind going through them. Two days later I got the "We couldn't finance you at 6.99% like we thought, we're going to need $1,500 to make it work" call. I thought it was kinda funny considering I knew I was pre approved through my credit union at a lower rate than what they offered. I know how that whole scam works to make me go in and change my contract to a higher interest rate.

Should I just return the car to them since THEY couldn't hold up their end of the contract that we BOTH agreed to? I figured now that the original contract has to be re-done I might as well try to low ball the fuck out of them. If they don't like my lowball offer it's fine with me, they have a unwind that has danm near 1,000 miles on it on their hands lol. I'm really just debating if going somewhere else and not letting Redlands Mazda get a dime of my money is worth wasting another weekend at another Mazda dealer.

What would you guys do??????