Let’s be fair… the Telluride leases WAY worse than the Palisade
Not per this most recent dealer quote!
Well sure, if you base off of a dealer charging over MSRP rather than what you can actually get them for.
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Smart money is on the Buick Des Moines.
If you ask for a quote, this is what you’ll get 99% of the time. Even more so during inventory issues.
Learn something about how to calculate payments and how to negotiate from this forum, otherwise your strategy of repeatedly soliciting quotes isn’t going to work.
Which safety features? When is the last time you drove a palisade limited? Full disclosure. I drive a Bimmer and my wife drives a palisade it’s a damn fine car. To get an X5 with comparable equipment to the limited you would have to spend 70k+
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TBF the Palisade doesn’t actually lease poorly.
The only people who can’t see how good your Palisade lease was, are the people hung up on the % of MSRP metric… which is just a really silly metric
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The “issue” with the palisade and telluride is that they’re pricing overly competitive for what they offer, so the MSRP is very very low. It’d be like if you got an XC90, but instead of offering $10k in incentives, they just lowered the MSRP $10k.
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In other words, the exact opposite of the BMW model, LOL.
It is probably all about brand perception. Certain marques have spent decades gaining an elevated status, whether it is “real” or justified appears immaterial.
I did several 400 mile trips with XC90 with passenger(s) in the 3rd row. They were under 6’ tall and didn’t complain. 3rd row has it own vents too, so cooling is not an issue.
XC90 has a 6 pass setup too, so the 3rd row passengers can now even extend their legs a bit more.
Seats are one of the most comfortable 3rd row seats, too.
I will soon lease a new one, just waiting for the 2021 models.
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Oh I’m not saying they’ve not made strides in tech leaps and bounds; but look lets be honest… historically the German brands have been ‘over engineered’ for American roads… the use of Boron Steel, thicker panels, better crush zones…to ‘instantly cutting off fuel and unlocking doors in the advent of a bad accident’. The German cars have done this for over 2 decades and then some. That having been said, I DO believe the Germans have slipped in quality and craftsmanship over the last 7 years. Just yesterday the door handle, passenger side on my 2017 E Class came OFF in my hand. I honestly am shocked… It’s going away in a few days. Must know it and wanted to piss me off. lol.
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It’s arguably one of the best looking SUV out there. Really handsome.
Agreed.
But it’s good that the current model is coming to the end of its cycle next year as it is missing some techy stuff, like a wireless charger, wireless CarPlay, automatically folding 3rd row etc.
They might include an “inductive smartphone charging” to 2021 models. Someone on the Volvo webchat told me that.