Year, Make, Model, and Trim: 2017 Mercedes C300 4matic w/ 7k miles
MSRP: $46,290
Selling Price: $35,498
Rebates: Fleet, included in selling price
Months: 36
Annual Mileage: 10,000
MF: .00019
Residual: .60
Security Deposit: $3,500 / 10 MSDs
Total Due At Signing: $3,915 (MSDs + first month + documentation / reg)
Monthly Payment (incl. tax): $270
Location: Bay Area, CA
Sales Tax Rate: ~8%
Leasehackr Score: 15.3 years
Been lurking for a month or two and was inspired to try and get a deal on the c300 4matic. Appreciated all of the leasing insights on here. Especially the leasing101 materials and details/posts on Mercedes Loaner vehicles, fleet discount, and MSDs.
Linked numbers in calculator. Basically just the sale price they are advertising + base MF (.00089 in CA not sure about Maryland) + 10 MSDs. This gets you $245. If you can apply $500 from fleet on top of the sales price you’ll get to $229.
How reasonable have they been? I sent them an email last week asking if they would lease it at buy rate and standard acquisition fee and the answer I received is below:
That’s a good one. I once had a salesman (Mercedes) claim they couldn’t use base money factor because they didn’t use it for other customers and it wouldn’t be fair.
Could you imagine if the manufacturers didn’t limit the greed? We would see some hysterical money factors. “Sure we will discount it $20,000…money factor is just .00492”.