Deal check on Polestar 3 - west coast

I’m interested in a Polestar 3, and the current rebates (15k clean vehicle, 5k tesla) are only available on leases. I’ve never leased before and trying to give myself a crash course on how it works. I’m located in Oregon, and it seems like west coasters get the shaft on Polestar deals- all the good ones I’ve seen on this forum are from the NE region.

Here’s my calculator link. What’s a “good” score? 7.8 seems to be a pretty bad deal compared to others, but again those are all from the east coast. Should I ask for MSDs to bring the pretty high money factor down? Or should I just walk and see if better deals come around in the next few months?

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Score doesn’t matter here. Not when comparables like ZDX, Lyric, Q4, arguably i4, EQE, etc have all been had for sub $400 regardless of what arbitrary sticker they slapped on it.

Make offers to every dealer in the PNW. There can’t be that many.

~12% off as a true discount (not clawed back with egregious doc fees) gets you to around $399 all in.

If someone accepts or gets close: great. Otherwise move on to any of the aforementioned cars. There’s nothing that great about the PS3 that it’s worth overpaying over the competition for.

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Doesn’t seem like we can get the polestar 3 for under Msrp on the west coast.

That does seem to be the case. I started looking at the other comparables recommended by max_g and not finding anything close to a deal.

I wonder how much of it is related to the fact that we have no sales tax in Oregon, so dealerships don’t have to discount as much. I was looking at the Ionic 5 and when I put in my zip code the price went up by like 7k on their website :joy:

A BMW iX would be a better value than a PS3 leased at MSRP

Not a PS3 or BMW, but I just had an experience at a Ford dealer in OR with a Mach-E where they would only offer 1.9% off MSRP and wouldn’t budge. When I pressed, their claim was that the numbers I see online are all east coast numbers where “there are a lot more cars.” Does the PNW just get screwed on EVs or was the salesman salty I came in with numbers and data “from the interwebs”?

If you walk in to negotiate on a car on the East Coast, the same thing will happen.

What you need to do is pick a hackable car and make offers remotely to at least 10 dealers.

OP said he’s interested in a Polestar and wants the deal checked…