How is December looking? The advertised Leaf deals seem to have stayed the same - is there any meat on the bones or is $50/mo for a SV easy to just sign and drive?
Ariya shouldnāt be much more expensive than the Leaf, much better vehicle for not that much moreā¦
I appreciate that. I have an MB lease maturing in April, so I was hoping the $5k Loyalty incentive would include April 2025 leases for December, but it stayed capped at 3/31/25 or earlier. That extra $5k Loyalty is worth about $200/mo off so unless a deal is unreal discounted, I think Iāll wait until January. You never know though for the end of the year if a dealer wants to play ball.
Here is the lease I got early Dec 2024 for a 2024 Nissan Ariya Plat+:
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Wanted to give a quick heads up to CO residents potentially interested in F-150 Lightnings, especially 24 Lariats.
Have been looking to get an F150 Lightning after picking up a solid deal on an EV9 in the Springs.
I initially had looked for a 2023 Lariat/Platinum or 24 Lariat back in October when I got my EV9. Back then, several dealers did not agree to pass on the full 7500 credit in line with Fordās policy, and discounts on lariats were much harder.
On reaching back out this month, I was actually pretty shocked at how many dealers came back to me almost exactly at monthly numbers I wanted. Almost all have a rebate stack of 7500 and discounts of at least 5K on MSRP, and the important part is, this does not include the CO Credit. Iām currently waiting to confirm but was happy to take a deal at 15K off (rebates and discount combined) + reserving the 5K CO Credit, looking at an effective monthly of ~$420 for a 24 month/10K lease on a new 24 Lariat.
Even without the CO credit, have gotten several sub $670/mo offers out of the gate on 36/10K leases, which I think were much harder a few months ago.
If anyone is interested, happy to ask the dealers I think I may have to turn down if they want me to put them in touch with interested lesses. This is obviously good only until end of month as the new admin may remove the EV credit and CO credit decreases to 3500 next year, but worth it if someone wants to move fast.
Edit: Technically if you are really willing to grind people down, itās likely you could be looking at $350-370 effective monthlies on lariats once you factor in the CO credit. Might require waiting until very nearly the end of month, but several Lariats are on their way to dealers up and down the front range, and I have a sense the dealers want them moved quickly before a lot of changes next year.
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Interesting that the Silverado EV is eligible for a Colorado tax credit of $12,000 this year and next. Has anyone put together a deal around this yet?
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Sierra EV and Hummer EV should also be getting over 10000lbs GVWR at least in certain trims. RV seems to be crazy high for the Silverado EV but there is no $7.5 lease cash or anything, they must be using that toward the RV. If there are some aged units, could be hell of a lease deal with the $12k from the state factored inā¦
Seeing the sam things for the RV on the Silverado. As far as I can tell no dealer does the $12k at POS so you would have to claim it individually.
With a little bit of dealer cash on the hood, Costco, employer, etc, a 24/12 is looking basically free.
Am I missing something here?
Colorado registration can be extra expensive I guess, and depending on how long the OEM tires last, replacement tires cost over $2k for a setā¦
Colorado registration varies a lot since local taxes range from 2.9% to 11.2%. Hopefully on a 24/12 you could turn it in with the original tires.
You might be mixing up sales tax and title registration, our registration is expensive regardless of county/city. My first year registration on the EQS was about $2k and the Silverado EV is significantly heavier though the medium size truck designation might be helping there, not sure. Donāt get me wrong, I am intrigued by the $12k incentive too but the local dealers would also be aware of the big tax credit so they will not discount the truck much. Our best bet at finding a good deal would probably be out of state where the Siverado EV doesnāt get any local incentiveā¦
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Seem optimistic on a very heavy vehicle.
More just merging them together in my head. But yes, Iāve bought or leased eight vehicles in the past fourteen months and taken a registration hit on each of them. It adds up.
Iām seeing at least one in the region discounted 8%, and when I plug that into the calculator and then assume the $12k tax refund it looks awfully attractive.
Two of my recent leases were for GM EVs. I donāt know if Iāve gotten the story completely straight from those dealers, but they both said the profit for them comes from meeting quota targets from GM.
If I started to get low on tread before 24/12 ran out I could likely find someone to assume the lease or just park it and let the time run out. If the cost of acquisition is low enough I donāt really care about the tires.
Unfortunately I donāt know if I want a Silverado EV at all. Iām already at having more cars in the house than I have drivers, so this would have to displace something, and I like the cars Iām holding right now.
Anyway, if anybody does go down this path Iād be interested to hear about it.
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Worst case a set of these would work fine for lease return, $105 each new.
They are 22 inch tires, RST trim is the only trim that has the GVWR over 10k pounds and it comes with 24 inch tires. Also I have pinged a few local dealers and they are all trying use the $12k as their discount and give only 2-3% dealer discount, definitely need to work out an out of state deal for the Silverado to make sense. I am not a truck person and already have one too many car in the garage so I have no idea why I am even toying with the idea 
Haha, I can totally relate! Lease deals in Colorado make it too tempting to resist at least starting negotiations. Iāve gone down that rabbit hole with the Wagoneer S, Lyriq, Fiat 500e, and Mini Cooper SEāonly to walk away halfway through. Now getting tempted for Escalade IQ
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Escalade IQās MF is sky high but if they end up selling slow, when MY26 cars start rolling in, MY25 cars can actually be intriguing.
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Thanks. Thatās the piece of information I didnāt have. All of my calculations were based around the LT which I thought shared the same GVWR. With a 9,900 GVWR my math falls apart. Darn.
Found good deal on Ioniq 6. Just fyi, Ioniq6 still comes with free charging