The deal that I got was very, very specific – any car on the lot with MSRP < $75k. So anything that went over (like the $75,200 cars) were $150/mo more – yes, really. So there was no “deal” for the S and at that time, it was somewhere around $5k down & $899/mo + tax.
Prior to this, for the exact same car was $5,000 down and around $699/mo + tax (some of friends are on this plan)
So, the folks here who said “maybe I will think about it” or “I will swing by tomorrow” or was on the fence or skeptical for even a split second lost the chance on this. Heck, if you were in the dealership taking a test drive, all the cars got sold from under you (aka, the car you were test driving was sold before you came back)
If you are in Socal, they still have some pretty aggressive deals for the “Ghibli S” http://www.maseratiofanaheimhills.com/details.htm $588/mo (5k miles only) but $0 down and $0 drive-off (2nd one from the top) but not enough to do the calcs from the ad. My sales guy was Dave Garrett, call him.
The way I understood it at the time (prior to discovering Leasehackr) is they calculated it backwards – they were trying to hit their promise of $488/mo … so if you had different MSRPs (aka “anything under $75k”), they fudged the discount and numbers to make it hit the $488/mo. So I guess if you found a car for $74,999, you got the best discount.
Again, at the time, it was so frantic at the dealership that there was really no time to think or to negotiate … if you did, the car you were looking at just got sold to somebody else. I actually got mine sight unseen … I only saw the car 2 hours after I signed the lease (they were detailing it and pulling the tape off and putting the wheel caps on)