Can anyone share a deal they recently received on a Cmax Energi? I received a quote from a dealer for a 3 year/15K lease for $396 a month (California/LA county tax included) with $0 due at signing.
I"m not familiar with CMAX leases. The Fusion Energi lease was expensive to lease because the depreciation so high leaving it with a 40% residual.
High depreciation is bad for leasing, but great for finding deals on used cars which you can finance through you local credit union. For example, on cars.com I see there is a 2013 CMAX energi with 30,775 miles listed for $9,995.
The Cmax energi has a $12k rebate right now so it’s kind of built into the depreciation on this deal.
Do you have the detail - MSRP, dealer discount, rebates, money factor to help assist? - that would make it easer to provide feedback on the deal. Based on the rebate mentioned, looks like you are looking at a 2016 model. I looked at the CMAX Energi before leasing a Fusion Energi Titanium in late February. Surprisingly, the Fusion was less expensive to lease - $300/mo - 15K, 24mo lease with no out of pocket (36 months was about the same - I think Fords are leasing better at 36 months currently). The rebates on either Energi model for 2017 are significantly less (6,000-7,000 range). However, I think they dropped MSRP in 2017 and with better residuals - it might be worth while to price out 2017 models. One significant improvement on the 2017 models is the SYNC 3 system - it is vastly better than the earlier version on 2016 cars. For something comparably sized to the CMAX, some people have posted great deals on Chevy Volt.