Help please for clarification purposes: VW is offering $5000 in lease cash and the $7500 tax credit is available on lease only. So is there $12500 on the hood of these cars? If so why am not seeing these as highly hackable in marketplace? Or is it just the money factor is crazy inflated resulting in a high monthly?
Maybe because nobody wants one (slightly sarcastic here, but they’ve never had great reviews)…I actually almost bought one when they first launched but then I got laid off before they went on sale. I think another thing is that the residual is pretty low, 50% on 36 months. A blazer is at 74%.
There’s more to a deal than lease cash. What would the monthly be when you factor in the current MF, RV, and tax with a realistic discount?
Sure but am I correct about the $12500? I haven’t added any other variables to my question yet except for mf.
I am not paying for lease calculator currently.
If you don’t want to pay for ratefindr, get the info from Edmunds forums.
I have donated many times and it has been very helpful but at this time I am only asking the one question about the 2025 VW ID.4
I believe lease cash is the same as the EV rebate which is $7500. However, 2024 models could have an additional dealer cash of $6500.
Not sure about which trims are doing better and/or which model year has better RV/MF. You would have to fill out the calculators with reasonable dealer discounts for each model year and trims to know which is hackable. Or look at the recent signed deals or broker offerings to get an idea.
Or the AutoCompanion calculator.
74% RV on the Blazer is due to GM using the lease tax credit to inflate the RV versus giving as a direct rebate. There are advantages to this approach, but nobody is buying their Blazer at lease end.
and 24 months later you are again in the market for another new car…
This could depend. GM could possibly throw incentives at people to get them to buy the lease…I know three to four years after the Nissan leaf launched, the original leases that were being returned had residuals that were significantly higher than market value so Nissan financial was giving people $6-8k to buy the cars. I heard stories that people were paying $99 a month for the lease then buying the car for like $8k or less.
At $150 a month for a $50k car you could still be paying less in the long term than buying it outright.
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Agree, and this is what we do here LOL
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