I’d run the math. If warranty is your line, then project out your total costs 48-mo into a finance (interest paid to date + sale tax + price of vehicle and non-sales tax upfronts) vs a lease on a monthly average basis all in. The one X factor is what you think an X5 will be worth 48-mo from now. If you seem to feel the used car market will collapse into oblivion, probably no scenario where financing makes sense.
I think there’s very few vehicles that will be worth less than half of it’s current going/average transaction price at the end of a 36-mo period.
Maybe the leasing makes more sense, I can’t say without all the numbers, but worth doing the analysis.
Great thread - I’m in the same boat with a 2019 X5 and still debating what to do with it when my lease is up end of Oct. I have a my23 4xe on order but will still need another vehicle and must trade the X5 or sell it. It’s complicated. Thanks for all the helpful information here. Maybe I’ll relook at another x5 and see if I can find a demo or something extra incentivized.
Like those notorious 7 series in the 90’s, or has it always been that way until now.
I had a 2010 Rx, super reliable but that car just leans like a maniac, 2022 Rx is also not known for its driving dynamics just look at all the reviews for the F variant.
Just bought a BMW iX50 with my XC90 traded in. I personally couldn’t like the suspension of the car. If you care about ride quality, XC90 may not be the best candidate for you. I highly recommend taking a test drive.
Trouble with the X5 45e is that you need to order a car if you want MSRP or slightly under. Dealers are slapping some nasty “market adjustments” on vehicles they have remaining on the lot (and usually there aren’t any left).
Isn’t Lexus just a premium brand not luxury? what does a lexus have that a toyota does not. Lexus still got that touchpad in the RX where the rav4 is past that for years
I don’t work in the industry, but I don’t think these “premium” and “luxury” have technical definitions.
I used to see “near luxury” in auto mags awhile back, and it seemed like those terms usually applied to the entry level luxury cars (and to Volvos, Buicks, and Acuras) but, w/ the intro of the A-Class, 2-Series GC, and A3, even that term doesn’t seem very common anymore.
Last time I checked, most Toyota passenger cars don’t have a TT V6 or a RWD platform…
LS is a giant Toyota. Nothing wrong with that, but let’s be honest.
Ditto the LX.
I only vaguely recall the original SC. I drove one of the later ones (and that was punching above my weight at the time), and it didn’t register as anything special.
But that’s what I don’t get. If you want to say that an ES is dressed up Toyota, that totally makes sense (although I would also argue that Lexus has done a pretty good job w/ the lipstick).
But what US-market Toyota does the LS resemble? I’m not super familiar w/ Toyotas or Lexuses (and thus do not have particularly strongly feelings about either), but I assume the LS shares absolutely no parts (including minor switchgear) w/ any US-market Toyota.
So I thus genuinely do not understand how the LS is simply a gigantic Toyota anymore than I consider a BMW 7-series a gigantic 2-Series GC (and I would wager that the BMWs have more user-facing switchgear in common than do the Toyota and the LS).
