Deal Check - '22 Sonata Hybrid

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I’ve been on the market looking for a replacement vehicle, and given current gas prices and my disdain and distrust toward CVTs (had a catastrophic failure with a Nissan a while ago so Camry and Accord Hybrids, despite having superior transmissions than Nissans, are not an option, and seem to be heavily marked up anyway), I decided to go with the Sonata Hybrid, looking for the Limited package (even if the solar roof is a gimmick, leather seats and extra tech sell it for me)

So, TL;DR, calculator links to the offers I got from local dealers, for your review and critique:

Rodo, for reference: MSRP $36764, 36/10 $403 all-in monthly, $2953 DAS

Truecar? A true joke, they used to have good discounts but the best price below MSRP is like $200, and leasing quotes are nowhere as competitive, even with their default 10% DAS

The question is: Can I do better in this current market, or even with a broker the best I can do is get rid of the marked-up MF at both dealers and call it a day?

Also, $3000 DAS on both to show a fair comparison, even though one offer is 36/12 and the other is 36/10 - not sure if I got my taxes right though.

My apologies for the amount of text, but I thank you in advance for your replies/feedback on this!

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Don’t rule out the Camry or any other Toyota hybrid. It’s very likely to have equal or better reliability than the Sonata hybrid.

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Just priced out a Camry Hybrid XSE with all the options I’d like to get, and as close to the Sonata (option and tech-wise) as possible and Toyota themselves are estimating a $6xx/mo lease as there are no lease cash incentives (unless I happen to be a Toyota sponsored paralympic athlete who’s also a firefighter…), going through any dealer and I’m probably looking at another $100 on top of that, and that’s basically a BMW series 4/5 kind of money, so it’s not practical :frowning:

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These leases are all going to suck unless you find any evidence to the contrary below, so you’ll probably have to purchase the one with the best resale value.