36 Months / 12K per year
MSRP: $60,275
Selling Price: $57,221
MF: 0.00225
Incentive: $7500
Residual: 54% ($32,548)
First Month’s Payment due at signing.
$715 per Month
Austin is offering this?
I WISH LOL… but nope, up in DFW.
Austin dealerships are AWFUL.
Is it solid?
Not bad for the market but I could beat that. What’s your timeline?
Preferably as soon as possible.
Error in the above: I meant [only] first monthly payment due at signing.
That makes a little more sense after plugging it in.
I have a little more margin on heavy builds.
Tabbing it up we could beat that by about $25/mo.
How are you even considering this?
Don’t all its competitors start at like $45K before any eligible federal, state and utility rebates if financed?
What do you consider to be a competitor to the i4 35e?
What if you like being able to find your car in a parking lot without looking at your app?
(As a Tesla owner, this is getting harder to do)
The solution to that one is simple, get a BMW i3!
These are so disliked that a winning Powerball ticket is a better bet then two of them in the same parking lot.
Personally though, I still feel that these are one of my favorite cars of all time.
Literally any EV priced at the same ballpark sticker.
There was a time you couldn’t compare a BMW 3 series to a domestic or Asian sedan due to its superlative I6 and RWD platform (and manual transmission if applicable). Meanwhile Ford, Hyundai etc vehicles would have shit motors and garbage suspensions and tragic transmissions.
None of those USPs apply to EVs.
If anything it’s the BMW that’s the least impressive piece of engineering. Instead of a dedicated EV platform it’s a converted ICEV platform. Instead of a frunk there’s an embarrassing mess of a jury-rigged set of motors lying in plain view.
As my son would say, that’s so cringe.
Funny enough this is what I always wanted. For years I have said just give me a normal MSport 3 series but with 250 miles of electric range and I’d probably get one. Instead we wind up with funny-cars like the i3, which my family had and we admittedly all loved.
Although this wouldn’t be a reason I would reject the car, honestly this is something that bugs me about it as well. The legacy auto makers just can’t fully commit. They have to have overlap in their designs, at least for now anyway… so they sometimes end up with things that are somewhat half baked.
In the interest of fairness, I should insert my comment about Tesla vision here as well🤪
Looking at the total cost for lease vs. buyout immediatly after lease and i didnt find much difference if the residual price after 3 years is close to 50%. Possibly 1-1.5 k saving if you buyout but I think it is risky to assume the car will be sold at 50% in 3 years as the battery/range will be improved significantly by then. What is your thought?
Battery technology only has one place to go, and that’s in the way of improvement.
I’d be leasing.