Help me Deceipher These Buick Encore Rebates/Incentives

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So I have an Buick Encore lease expiring the middle of next month (March). The lease deals aren’t what they were a year ago so I’m toying with the idea of just buying a 2019 Encore. The purchase incentives available to me potentially look good if I can get what I think I can.

I believe that since I have an expiring GM lease and that I would finance through GM Capital I would be eligible for the following incentives. Is this correct ?

  1. $2500 Bonus Cash
  2. $1500 Stand Alone Cash
  3. $2500 Lease-to-purchase loyalty incentive
  4. $1050 Down Payment Assistance Program (Need to finance with GM Capital)
  5. $500 GM Select Market Incremental CCR Program (for 48/month purchase)

That totals out to $8050 in rebates and incentives. Please enlighten me if I’m not correct here.

Per Autobytel the incentives are as follows

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I always thought that CCR in GM speak was for Cap Cost Reduction towards a lease? Maybe that’s just for the 48 month lease term?

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The $500 is lease only CCR.

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And does “Stand alone cash” stack with the rest of the offers? I was under the impression that “Stand Alone” in GM speak meant that’s all that you get, and it can’t be combined.

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Stand alone stacks. Try carsdirect or go to the Buick website and build it and at the end it will show you price with cash incentives applied.

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For what it’s worth.

The carsdirect tool suggests that the $1050 down payment assistance program doesn’t stack with the $2500 Lease-to-purchase loyalty incentive. The Buick website wasn’t as helpful in designating which incentives did or didn’t apply.

A local dealer is offering 39 month $169 Encore leases (nothing down but drive-offs ~$1600). That may work better than a purchase deal. I’m still deciding on what to do…

Options are

  1. Buy the car($25595 MSRP ~$6500 rebates) with discount/tax/drive-offs net is about $20k
  2. Lease the car as described $169/month with ~$1600 drive offs
  3. Return the expiring lease pay $495 termination fee and be done with it. Wait for better deal.
  4. Return the expiring lease pay $495 termination fee and buy a used car somewhere to drive
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I believe this is correct. I think that the $1050 is if you take the 0% APR for 72 months and lose the other rebates. Personally, I’d wait til next month to do anything because GM typically gets way better in March

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Well I have a GM lease, and don’t have a competitor lease. The last two years that $3k lease incentive in March was only for competitor leases. As I recall you only got $1500 for loyalty or something like that.

Maybe the deal will get better in March and then again maybe not. That’s the game we play.

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Last year the March GM conquest was $3,000 on a lease for any non GM vehicle you leased or owned.

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[quote=“adamcar, post:9, topic:98925”]
Last year the March GM conquest was $3,000 on a lease for any non GM vehicle you leased or owned [/quote]

I wouldn’t qualify for the conquest $3k incentive then. All my vehicles are GM.

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Go buy a junk old non GM car for $500!!

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Maybe I could get this if I bargain hard

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Has to be 1999 or newer I think!