Hey guys,
I’m having noob calculator issues again. Can someone tell me what is off between this deal sheet and my calculator build?
One thing to notice, is I am looking to roll the tax into the monthly, vs paying it upfront (as the deal sheet assumes)
First, the total savings includes the $1500 rebate, which is taxed. You are also missing the acquisition fee. The dealer also has 7% sales tax and you have 7.75% in the calculator. And if I am nitpicking, your doc fee is 10 cents too low.
When you input the correct numbers for the selling price, acq fee, and rebate, I can get to the $4198 due with $918/mo. However, you should clarify the sales tax percentage and ask for a quote with just first month’s due at signing.
Sheesh. As much as I want one of these at some point, man they lease terribly.
How come your calculator is showing $1,405 cash down?
Edit* he just sent it back with tax spread out.
I went back and forth between cash buy and lease. Didnt feel like it made sense to tie up that much money.
Most likely I will be able to sell the vehicle at end of lease, and be in the money (should be worth ~$55k). I also like the flexibility to transfer out if need be. This is, I think, the highest discount I’ve seen on an m3 thus far.
Works out perfectly with the tax included in the lease at 7.75% tax.
You should try shopping around a bit more since you’re getting about a 5.5 percent discount off msrp. Some brokers are even offering up to 9 if I’m not mistaken.
Might be worth waiting a few months for the hype to die down?
I have not seen any brokers offering 9% off on a M3 (M4 yes, but seems to max out around 5-6% on a M3).
But prices on these are all over. Some dealers are at $10k over MSRP and then you have these deals.
I’m comfortable with this deal. It’s a build to my spec order, and the biggest discount I saw was 6% for a “potential” allocation. Going through a local CA I’ve worked with.
Yea I hear all that. I just have resigned myself to waiting until discounts are better (which I recognize could be quite some time away). What is your 1500 rebate comprised of?
Loyalty ($500) and Dealership Specific “Spring for Speed” event ($1000)
They let you us an OL on a custom order?
Yeah he might want to double check on that. OL doesn’t apply to custom orders AFAIK. Going from Dravit Grey M340i to M3 - nice!
I’ll check. The CA was the one who offered it. The way I look at it is either the OL works or they come down a bit more to make good on it. Will report back tho!
Exactly the route I took (with a detour in LT1 land 
From my experience CAs don’t necessarily know all the technical know how of what applies and what doesn’t. Regardless, they can only cover $500 of the OL because that’s their part of the $1k.
I read somewhere on here that client advisors who know what they’re doing are able to have the car ordered and delivered, remove the customer’s name from the car, wait a few days and “hide the keys” so that the car can’t be sold, then have the customer who ordered the car come back and buy/lease with an OL code since it’s no longer technically a custom order. Not sure how widespread this is.
We are at 7% on M3
This is the type of thing you don’t put in writing 
Blame the guy who put it in writing first then 
, not sure how BMW would enforce that anyway.
