Ya, I think I included $595 for acq, but even without, it’s still way too much money.
You can run the numbers specifically for your situation.
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There are a couple brokers that do Mazda deals. Have you reached out to them?
Not yet. I would like to talk to someone soon.
There are also Jeep brokers on here and some of the deals seem ok if you are ordering a lease. My personal bias, I prefer to only own Toyota, Honda and might consider Subaru. Anyting else is a lease to me and right now some cars are not worth leasing.
I am glad you did not sign at $549 a month. Most people pay too much on a lease even in the before times. I cannot tell you how many times I have gone back to the same dealer and when we are discussing a new lease, they are shocked at how cheap the old lease was.
I personally do not think in this market you get much dealer attention if you are sending emails but it is worth a shot as you seem to have time
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There are none in stock to lease now. I’m looking for others or just finance but that’s worse actually
Not sure this matters but we were at an Acura dealer, they actually had stock and were discounting the ILX Apex by $500 off MSRP (never thought that would be a deal!) They had fewer TLXs and RDXs so were charging more. Plus the ILX is going the way of the dodo in a month! They ultimately refused to do a deal based on the national ad which would have saved us the bank fee and did the pretend stupidity where they were deliberalty misinterpreting the calculator on their own website. It was tedious but my friend wanted to test drive.
Another friend is shopping for a 60K Mercedes. She actually has gotten a decent amount of attention and ended up finding a better deal than her current broker by calling another dealer and then negotiating by email but she has a car she is turning in. Also the deal is semi meaningless because the car will not be here for two months and the value of her trade can change as can the interest rates
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It’s not a deal in any sense of the word.
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There are no deals anywhere. Financing is even more costly.
Regarding purchasing, Jeep Wranglers would like a word.
More costly in what sense, monthly payment? That’s not your cost.
It’s:
Purchase price +
- TTL
- financing
Less: the resale value when you sell it.
Absolutely correct. I look at the total lease cost which includes bank fee, any other fees such as termination and the residual and all the payments and compare it to the total MSRP (or whatever you can get the car for now if you finance or pay cash). For example I know someone who before this run up leased an RX350 with an MSRP of 52K (give or take I was not involved) for about $515 a month. That makes sense. Meanwhile after the shortages started, I know someone who leased a CX5 signature reserve (retailed for 39K) for $500 a month, that deal does not make as much sense because over 3 years they are essentially paying for half the car when they could have bought the whole car in 6 years give or take
Financing is only expensive if there are cheap supported leases available which is not happening right now or if there are no promotional financing interest rates and you are paying over 3 or 4% in interest annually although sometimes you can get a deal from a bank or CU
@Chippedbeef I do not understand your comment
@Saphire - I was saying that Wranglers are excellent at retaining value. I believe they have the lowest depreciation of any vehicle out there.
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