2025 Buick Envision ST Lease – Large Discount, Private Offers, Dealer Flex Cash?

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Hi everyone,

I’m helping a friend lease a 2025 Buick Envision Sport Touring and wanted to get some advice on how to structure the offer.

The dealer currently has the vehicle discounted about $5,750 off MSRP.

Vehicle details:

MSRP: $42,240
Trim: Sport Touring

Lease structure I’m targeting:

24 months
10k miles/year
Residual: 72%
MF: 0.00310833

My goal was to push the dealer discount to $8,250, which gets the payment around $350/mo with estimated fees and first payment DAS.

Originally I thought my friend had a $1,250 private lease offer, which would have dropped the payment to roughly $298/mo but they do not.

I noticed in the Leasehackr calculator that there is GM dealer flex cash ($500 per unit, up to 4).

My question is:

What’s the best way to approach the dealer about using flex cash to bridge that gap?

Should I:

  1. Show my math and ask if they can apply flex cash to reach the ~$298 target payment, or

  2. Simply ask for a larger dealer discount (around $9,500 off) and let them structure it however they want?

I want to be able to help them along without them immediately blowing me off. Curious what the vets here would do. Thanks!

Link to calculator

2

Is 20% off MSRP pre-incentive/-rebate realistic?

3

I helped them lease a 2023 Buick before this (demo) and it was I want to say 9k off pre-incentive – different dealer but same area. This one is new but they have one other 2025 thats a demo and the new model is already discounted more than the demo for some reason (I think because it’s red?). So the demo is an option but it’s a lesser trim and I figured why not shoot for the stars

4

I have very little experience, but….

5

loll I don’t mind being blown off for real but mainly just thinking through how to best give the proposal. “I know you have dealer flex cash so use it!” (not really, but) or propose X amount off and roll the dice

6

I think you can either do #1 (but you need to make sure all the line-items are accurate) or the often-suggested approach of offering “$X per month w/ $Y DAS. I qualify for A, B, and C incentives and rebates. If you agree, I’ll come in today to sign and pick up the car.”