Add me to the list. e-tron GT lease is up in October and also have no idea what to get. Prefer a sporty car to an SUV and the pickings don’t look good. @jeisensc can you share more about your used e-tron GT purchase? Ours has been pretty reliable, so may go that route.
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Base MSRP was around 107k. But with any features it would be closer to 115k.
Obviously not as sporty, but I really like my i7 xDrive60. It leases pretty well for the price, drives way better than my previous EQS. Range-wise, same as the Taycan/e-Tron GT so if you can live with the controversial looks, it is a really nice ride for the money…
Yeah would be curious to hear. Hoping more ‘25’s appear used by then as the software update and range increase is something i really want.
My worry with i7’s is that charging it a few times a day on a roadtrip can lead to it being throttled on charging from reviews ive seen where it wont charge at its higher speeds. Separately it looks like a giant box haha
Stay as far away from Polestar as you can, or at least do some reading before you jump into it. They’ve got huge software and hardware problems and wait times for repairs are measured in months. One of the ongoing problems with the 3 is a loss of the ability to charge, so that’s a problem, lol.
My wife is currently leasing a Polestar 2 and they sent us some fairly attractive numbers for P3/P4 leases recently, which I was vaguely intrigued by until I started reading about peoples’ experiences. Our P2 has been just okay so I wasn’t particularly inclined to lease another one, but reading that stuff sealed the deal for me.
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Funny: I just test drove a P3 today in Toronto (visiting), and they only have 3 from 2025 to sell, no 2026 due to tariff issues? Anyway I loved the inside and the drive was fine, but even the salesman warned me against buying it (no lease on 2025s, so buying was only option). He did recommend the P4, and it seemed to have a decent lease, but this does seem a bit too risky (he confirmed the wait times for repairs being months).
I’m going to add Mercedes 250 electric to my watch list. Brand new and already there’s deals for under $500/month.
Yeah, if even the sales guy is telling you, you know it’s gotta be bad. They’d sell you Strychnine and tell you it was Gatorade, lol. The P3 just seems like an out-and-out nightmare.
The P4 might be better – I’m honestly not sure – but Polestar’s terrible QA issues have me a little too gun shy to commit to another one.
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Got a letter last week offering to get me into a 2026 and forgive my last 5 lease payments - anyone else get this? Pretty empty offer though - 2 dealers near me offered more than the $1000/mo I’m paying now (for a $146k car) for a $72k car (demo Macan EV) - no thanks!
Story on NYT today talks about the flood of soon-to-be-returned lease vehicles: “Leases on some 300,000 two- and three-year-old electric vehicles will expire this year, up from just 123,000 in 2025, and many of those cars will return to the market as used cars. They will be followed by 600,000 in 2027 and nearly 660,000 in 2028, according to Cox Automotive, a market research firm.”
So that should mean increasingly good deals on used cars, like a CPO lease on a 2025, but I’m not seeing it yet at all
also on my current lease the residual is set at $96k (69%), and the NYT story says that’s not going to be good for PFS: “The finance divisions of car companies that own those leased cars may now have to take big losses on vehicles that are not worth as much as they estimated when leases were signed two or three years ago. For example, an automaker may have estimated that a $70,000 car it leased to someone in 2023 for three years would be worth $45,000 — a figure known as the car’s residual value — in 2026 when it was returned. That car company will have to book a loss of $10,000 if the car sells for $35,000. “That’s the negative in all this,” Mr. Thomas said. “It definitely hurts the financial companies.” Automakers typically sell returned lease cars to their dealers or to wholesale auctions, where any car dealer can buy them. The dealers then sell the cars to individuals for a higher price.”