I had a CX50 and was planning to buy it out but went to dealership and got a really good deal on a New CX90. $8060 one pay lease for 24 months and 12k miles per year.
I’ve had the car for a bit and its not for me. Its too big for my city driving needs, I live in an apartment where the chargers are much less accessible than i expected. Great car but I really miss the CX50 and found it to be a better fit. I took it to carmax, carvana and more and despite getting roughly 18k off of MSRP on my purchase price, the offers from each are less than the residual value two years from now event with a few hundred miles on it. I called the dealer two days after owning it and they just offered to roll the 8k of negative equity into a new deal which I am not going to to do.
To my knowledge MFS doesn’t allow for lease transfers. Am I just out of luck and stuck with it for two years? I feel bad bc its a great car and would really want someone who needs it to enjoy it.
Toyota allows for lease transfers correct? The sales associate said MFS doesn’t do lease transfers but if it’s the same as Toyota it might be. I could list it in the transfers thread here.
I would suggest calling Mazda Finance first. I leased mine in July and found out the lien holder changed from Toyota Trust to Mobility1, which seems to be a DBA of US Bank. When I called in July, they had no idea about the policy and process of the new company, but double-checked and saw if the lease transfer would work.
Forgot to mention that one of the issues you may have is a lack of data in MMR for a comparable price, which pushes dealers to give you a low offer.
I had a similar issue back in 2022 when I put my 2021 CX-9 with 5k miles $4k over MSRP but kept getting no bids for a 2022 CX-9 with 200 miles because it was too new and no MMR data was available.
I had a 2023 CX-90 PFP Gas and now have a 2024 CX-90 PHEV Preferred. The gas model was more fun to drive; however, for daily use around the house, especially for picking up and dropping off the kids, the PHEV is more convenient. I don’t have a Level 2 charger, but Level 1 charging takes about 11 hours, which we usually do overnight. The average MPG after the first 20–30 miles ev (depending on heat, traffic, and AC use) is around 25, while my gas-only model averaged 24.5. This is a large vehicle and feels noticeably bigger compared to the CX-9—and especially my CX-5.
Mainly the very jerky, unrefined transmission. After that it was the weak engine that struggled to get up to speed without the electric boost. The paint job Mazda does is cheap as hell with almost no clear coat. You could sneeze and scratch the car. Last and most annoying was it was constantly beeping and chirping warnings about checking my rear seats for kids or a rain storm 2 states away…just beyond annoying.
I think it was Motor Trend that said that the transmission programming was pretty much a deal-killer in their long-term CX-90…. And they were shocked that it hadn’t seemed changed in the CX-70.
Does CX-90 come in Soul Red? I had read that, at least for the CX-5, that the Soul Red gets marred very, very easily.
