We need a thread discussing which cars have the highest RV on a monthly basis. Someone like me likes to trade in and out of vehicles and use the RV to my advantage.
I do know Wranglers and RAM are high this January 2026… What else is out there?
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I feel like this type of thread has been started in the past and inadvertently one of the Trusted Hackers pipes in and says “RV is just one of the variables” and the thread goes nowhere (and gets closed). I hope that’s not the case this time around because this would be an awesome resource. Frankly, might be a good enhancement for the LeaseHackr Calculator - select a months and mileage allotment and have it return the highest RV vehicles regardless of brand or model. Should be fairly easy to do given that we have the data.
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What does one have to do with the other?
I can’t imagine why that would happen
Tacomas have a high residual value.
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While not a perfect predictor, the RV will generally indicate how strong of a resale value the vehicle will have. The more often he changes vehicles, the less (in general) he’ll lose on trade-in or resale of the vehicle (yes, there are lessors with restrictions on lease exit via this pathway, but let’s ignore them for now).
There are 2 good reasons to ask for vehicles with high RVs. One, it limits the pool size of potential vehicles to lease. Yes, the lessors have multiple levers they can pull to incentivize customers to lease a particular car, such as subvented MFs and incentives; however, starting with a high RV is a good first step to get a general sense of how well a vehicle will lease. Two, this will become even more true as interest rates inch down (which is happening presently), making MFs come down across the board, making them less of a factor in the overall cost of the lease than before.
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Which is irrelevant.
If you want to flip easily, you need a vehicle that maintains a low adjusted lease balance relative to the market value. The relative value of that to the initial msrp is inconsequential.
This is why this question results in a non-answer and the thread getting closed. The basic premise is flawed. The assumption is that a high residual value somehow suggests that the vehicle will carry an adjusted lease balance that tracks at a lower value than the market value, but that’s often not the case. A high residual value when leasing is typically a result of a vehicle that is either having the lease program incentivized by inflating the contracted rv, which pretty much guarantees you will never have equity, or it’s a vehicle that has genuinely low depreciation rates, which usually has limited incentives and poor dealer discounts. Those both drive a high adjusted lease balance relative to the market value.
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If we have a high RV car with discounts, it’s worth throwing some neggy into the deal. I am planning on “returning” my Volvo 10 months early against a RAM . We used to have many EVs in same boat but those are. Dying breed
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Personally, if I was going to be rolling a bunch of money into a new lease, I would be far more interested in focusing on something with a minimal money factor and an adjusted lease balance as low relative to the market value as possible, because those are the two things that are actually going to minimize my cost.
Usually, that looks more like something where incentive dollars are put towards buying down the rate and giving cap cost reductions rather than holding a high rv.
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Theoretically, isn’t the G63 a high Real RV vehicle?
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It would be handy if you could run a query across all makes and models for the highest RV combinations in ratefindr
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Yes I think this what I was thinking of. lol
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I absolutely agree with you. The RV, shown as a percentage of the original MSRP, is one part of this calculation.
Also, after a certain point, you can’t really overcome a low RV. You can make the MF as close to 0 as you’d like, but it won’t save the deal. And short of the manufacturer throwing thousands of dollars at you in incentives (which is becoming rarer and rarer since the EV industry has been castrated stateside), there is no recourse for a low RV.
I guess I should just re title this to “best deals” of the month… I feel like lots of information can be fed on this and help people knock down something they need cheap vs making so many threads
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It’s really not though. It doesn’t drive the adjusted lease balance, other than impacting the amount that the adjusted lease balance changes each month (but not the starting point, which is the primary driver) and it’s only sorta representational of the bank’s long term prediction of value (and then manipulated based on how they choose to incentivize things).
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I would love for the calculator to show the top 10 make/models with the highest rv with best terms pre-tax. For those hunting, think it would help ease the search. Maybe even having top 10 makes/models with the highest manufacture general incentive that everyone gets.
I get what your saying and looking to roll some neg 4xe equity in myself
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I agree it’ll definitely be handy to search all makes and models to show the highest RV combos. It would make it easier to spot the best deals of the month and helpful for the not so savvy LeaseHackr’s to find something cheap faster.
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I would say, it doesn’t make for the best deal as @mllcb42 would say, but I think generally its just helpful information. If combined with the right incentives, then def can make for a great deal 
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For sure, I’d second that and say that everyone deserves a @djrabbi deal. It’ll also help decrease the amount of DMs he gets on a daily basis.
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