The market for brick-y, inefficient EVs must be really small. A Hummer SUV signed deal was just shared for $366 effective on a one-pay.
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Hopefully you kick off G580 frenzy with a $599 monthly and $599 DAS.
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Come on. Why are you publicly posting our top tier dealer contacts that deliver unicorn deals time and time again? North Olmsted is supposed to be a secret.
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Doug Horner has the opportunity to do the most ultimate LH troll job of all time.
He can get his F&I person to draft a fake contract/agreement that has $599 monthly and $599 DAS for a G580.
Then when the deal gets posted in Signed! - it will kick off a frenzy where all the remaining MB dealers in the USA will get hella-spammed by all the LH cheapskates looking to match.
Think of the lulz we’ll get here and views he’ll get on his reel.
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The math maths from what I see in the calculator below. @li8625 can now work his magic.
44.2% discount is all.
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Exactly as expected. Outside of a few schmos, they’re still way off before they start moving any of these.
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Also, I read that the real range on these things is like 140-150… if that’s the case, that dude is gonna eat that $599 video at some point.
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Motortrend got just above 200 on their 70mph highway test. Which is better but hardly a good number and due to the G wagons shape, I’m sure would absolutely fall off a cliff at 75 or 80 miles per hour. But I don’t thing the range is really the big issue with this car. It’s demographics
Who buys G wagons - mostly right of center Americans and people in the Middle East. Sure it is tremendously capable but almost no one is using that capability. You don’t off road a $200k car. Other than it’s off road chops it isn’t better than any other top end luxury SUV. It’s a fun car but also a status symbol.
It’s all about whether Mercedes decides to bail dealers out in September. Right now you are talking a 40%+ dealer discount to get to $599 a month. Although I’m fairness that may be about the discount needed to get them sold via financed purchase also. Will be fascinating to see what Mercedes does over next two months with lease numbers/incentives.
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At this rate, these might replace the C300 as the default service loaner at most MB dealers. Worst $ per (range) mile in the market and it is not even close.
Can’t wait to see what pricing might look like on a used one in a couple of years.
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Dealership buys them, takes the Section 179 deduction and hopes they get totalled out in loaner service so customers insurance pays for the car.
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Sounds like wishful thinking on their part, can’t imagine the ratio of new cars being totaled in the first 5-10k miles being terribly high.
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Put a V8 in them, every unit sells for msrp and above.
Savagegeese put up a review yesterday. They had a pretty good additional thought. This is not a particularly smooth or quiet car. It’s a G wagon with a battery wedged in. It just doesn’t play to the benefits of an EV, which is effortless quiet comfortable driving. It just cries out for a throaty V8.
They also note it is a vanity purchase. A vanity purchase should have a nice engine note.
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Anything is possible if you try hard enough
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G Wagons as a whole are a vanity purchase. The problem with the EV version is it doesn’t have the artificial scarcity clout/resale value cycle of the ICE model.
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Guess you didn’t scroll up 5 posts 
You are right. Sorry for duplicate post.
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With these EVs, you just need some potholes and a little undercarriage damage for them to be totaled.