As a lease, I wouldn’t care too much about warranty work. I daily drive and maintain a 2008 BMW 550i with 260k miles… my tolerance level for vehicle issues is pretty high lol.
Already have an EV in the stable and would prefer to not add a second as sharing one L2 charger would become annoying…don’t have the space to install a second one.
This vehicle would be replacing another PHEV, a 2014 Cadillac ELR. The Mazdas and Volvos are nice and I would love to have one but they’re just not falling in the price range that the Hornet/Tonale are falling in using the rate findr calculator. If dealers won’t bite, so be it, not the end of the world.
Couple differences
A. You wouldn’t be able to maintain it your self. You’d have to leave it at the dealer for who knows how long and possibly without a loaner.
B. The infotainment bricking itself on a modern car is very different to an E60.
Still not sure why you’re looking at the Hornet tbh
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Couple of things
A. I’m looking at a 24 month lease. It’ll get 3, maybe 4 oil changes. This is not the only vehicle in the stable. If there’s a genuine issue the dealer cannot fix, there’s nothing I’d love more than to have a manufacturer buy their junk back and give me a new one. Again, my tolerance level is pretty high and when stuff goes wrong at a dealership, it’s easy to leverage the mess ups for my gain.
B. See above
Perhaps you didn’t see my subsequent post but I’m not looking at EVs and the Mazda and Volvo PHEV SUVs do not fall in the price point that I am interested in. Just so happens that Hornets/Tonales do. If the dealers won’t play ball, again, so be it, I’ll walk and it won’t materially make a difference to my well being.
Crazy that I have to spell this out for some random 
on a leasing forum lol. I asked for some pretty basic advice on leases in general and some insight on Stellantis leasing not your opinion on the vehicle itself; if I wanted that opinion, I would have explicitly asked for it.
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Lol the telltale sign a LH user is dealing with max_g.
oh good, I have experienced the emeritus enema
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