Because maybe they sell it to you at MSRP and the normal discount is 10%, so you should have this car for $310/mo. Just a hypothetical scenario to show why he asked you in response to your question “Thoughts?”
Because it can help others negotiate the price. It’s pretty important- think if it as a gear that’s party of multiple moving parts. Can’t just remove one. Thank you.
It’s still a $570 all-in price on a $70k car. That’s pretty good. But the low mileage would be the issue, as would the fact that there’s some cap cost reduction in the out of pocket.
Somebody could have $600 monthly on a 75k MSRP while another has a $600 monthly on a 80k MSRP.
You always use the MSRP as a reference to what the value of the car is, and from there you look at the selling price (and other numbers) to see if it makes sense.
The trusted hackrs are asking that question because they are knowledgeable and know why they’re asking it. If you want their advice, I would recommend you to give them the numbers so that they could help you better.
FYI: See the thread today about the F type R which in summary has these deal terms:
MSRP: $112,000
Miles: 10K per year
Duration: 33 months
650 tax included with zero down and zero drive off.
OP is clearly under 1% so where are the party balloons? (I know it just a nice rule of thumb blah blah blah)
Just because 1 person, literally 1 person got a killer lease on an SVR it doesn’t mean every other F-Type lease after that is a crap lease.
OP, think of the selling price like this…
$70K msrp. 33 month lease… For every $3,300 is discount you knock $100 off the monthly lease (3,300/33=100. For every $6,600 discount you knock $200 off the lease price. (more or less this how it works)
That’s why selling price, not MSRP is so important.
The residual is based off of the msrp. The difference between the residual and the selling price is what you are going to be paying for the vehicle with the interest on top (money factor). The way you cheat the system in a lease is to get the dealer to discount the vehicle as much as possible to lower the cost of the payments.
Examples
Msrp 100k
Residual 60% (60k)
Mf 0
Selling price 100k
You owe 100k-60k=40k over the span x months
Msrp 100k
Residual 60% (60k)
Mf 0
Selling price 80k
You owe the 80k-60k=20k
In essence the dealer contributed the other 20k
Hopefully this simplified math helps you comprehend everything