Hello Gurus,
I know the Palisades is a hot item right now and a bad lease item, but the heart wants what it wants…
After searching far and wide, I found a dealer who is selling at MSRP.
Can you please let me know if the below is ok and not awful ?
Palisades- Calligraphy
36 months/10k miles
$48,885 - MSRP
$4,000 -DAS
MF .00175
RV 56% , $27,375
$716 per month
Appreciate any help…
Thanks
Sounds awful to me. $29k to rent it for 3 years? Might as well buy it if you must have it.
$850/mo is a lot for a palisade. If you want it, buy it.
That is not an $827 per month car. If you have to have it, at MSRP sounds like the best you’ll get these days. Any brokers have any deals?
Terrible deal, too much DAS. Just buy the thing.
Payment is in the $700s on a 72 month purchase with $4000 down, there is no reason lease this
Looks horrible.
Cuz he’s making a killing somewhere else
Did you try to find out the fees tacked on?
Try to put #s in the calculator?
I feel your pain as my recent experiences with Hyundai dealers regarding Santa Fe’s have been atrocious. I’m not sure what your local tax situation is, but the only way this seems to work out in the calculator is if a good part of that 4000 DAS is a markup, meaning they’re not really selling it at MSRP. They can get creative with this - one dealer was at least straight enough to call it out as a ‘market adjustment’, while another dealer swore up-and-down that he was going above and beyond to keep it as MSRP, but then of course there was his dealership’s required $1800 ‘protection package’ added on.
I get the ‘heart wants’ sentiment, but at least take a little cooling off time before jumping at this. If you haven’t, test drive some other things. I know off the top of my head that CX-9s are still being landed for discounts most places, and there are at least several brokers offering a class-up Volvo XC90 for lower payments than that. And if you’re willing to swing that payment definitely consider the advice to buy it, especially if you’re comfortable with the money down. With a 72 month loan you’ll probably be ahead of the residual after three years even if you wanted to swap out.
Good luck!
As someone that went from a cx9 to a palisade, the only thing comparable between these two is they each have 4 wheels.
I do agree that it’s worth taking a hard look at an xc90 though.
Anywhere else a Calligraphy trim MSRP is 48k -50k and most have a mark up of 5k to 10k on top of that.
Just finding a dealer who is willing to sell at the same price as website MSRP is very tough.
I agree with some of the other posters here. At that payment level, you can just buy the car. If your credit is good, you would probably looking at a comparable payment and no limit on mileage and no bs fees.
Genuinely curious what you didn’t like about the Mazda. I know its tighter on the inside than it should be at its size, but I was pretty impressed with my quick look at both CX-5s and CX-9s high trims, at least compared to the rest of the mass-market alternatives.
Looks like buying it is a better option.
I’m looking a 3rd row SUV with captain’s chairs. I’ve narrowed it down to Ascent , Atlas and Palisades.
The MSRPs are approx the same for the trim I’m looking for with Palisades being the highest (49k)
Ascent Touring (48k)
VW Atlas (47k)
I was only leaning towards Palisades since Im getting at MSRP ,and none of the other Brands are going below MSRP too.
Thoughts or a better direction?
I always thought people chose the Palisade over the Telluride because they received better deals on them. I realize tastes vary but don’t understand if it’s the same cost why anyone would choose that over the Telluride. I had one last week as a rental in Boston and while it was a base model, had the same general look and feel as a Hyundai from 5 years ago.
Apparently the higher trim Palisades are much more luxurious with the materials…
It was a heaping pile of crap. Space is useless. Infotainment was borderline unusable. Clunker whenever you lifted off the throttle. Body parts randomly cracked. All the piano black plastic in the interior looked like it got in a fight with a brillo pad after 6 months. Etc
It’s one of those vehicles that comes across really nice, but once the honeymoon period was over, all its shortcomings came to the surface and I couldn’t get rid of it fast enough. Even my wife, who doesn’t care at all about cars, absolutely hated it.
One response doesn’t do it justice
Something is wrong with the link… just shows 1 result which is this thread itself
Also , Telluride is 15k mark up right now.
Personally, I just like the look of the Palisades better.
Convert that bad boy to a purchase and enjoy. The Atlas and Ascent are targeted to a different audience/ or brand faithful