Calculator: Visualizing Necessary Discounts

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I was just using the calculator to try to determine, for a particular set of lease parameters, how likely I’d be able to negotiate a deal at a certain MSRP and still be in my price range.

Another way you could think about this is: Given a MSRP, what is the dealer discount that I’d need to hit my desired payment? So for $50K, that might be 10%. For $55K, it might be 12%. And so on. This would make a very informative graph in my opinion. The X axis could be the MSRP of the vehicle, and the Y axis could be required dealer discount.

Another interesting graph might be a three dimensional one. The X axis is MSRP, the Y axis is dealer discount, and the Z axis (color?) would be payment or total lease cost.

2

You would still be required to fill in all the other information and the only think you would be changing is the MSRP or discount. The only change I can see that would make sense would be instead of clicking up/down arrow on the MSRP, have a slider that let’s you change increments of the price going up or down. You could then keep the discount the same for X car and slide up to see what MSRP would still be in your payment range. The payment on the bottom/right of the screen would change as your adjust the MSRP and the discount would stay the same.