I’ve been searching for days what a good/average monthly lease payment is considered good for 2022 and I really couldn’t find anything except like luxurious vehicles and trucks.
My lease is up in February and although I know I’m going to be paying more than I currently do, I’m not sure what decision to make based on prices and all the inventory issues.
I’m looking for a 5 seater (7 seats with fold down) but the issue we’re running into is wanting the sunroof and leather seats which is making all the car payments go up since we have to add packages or get the higher trimmed model.
Well you do the simple thing first. You ask for a lease extension until you find the right car to replace your current one. (1-3 months?)
Otherwise you will find yourself paying more for the wrong car than a couple months extension will cost you.
Then you scour this site for all the suggestions of 3rd row SUV’s, there are probably at least 10 if not 50 topics. Your requirement of a Sunroof and leather does make it a little harder to find a ‘deal’
And $500 off a loaner with an accident?
Run away from that.
Honestly $500 doesn’t really get you squat right now in the 3rd row with room.
You might want to review those ‘$500’ quotes as they might increase the down or not include TTL , etc
But Here’s some links you can read what other people are buying, do not use any pricing as everything has changed (pretty much pricing is only good for like 2 weeks nowadays)
Then when you find the car you WANT, not the car you will settle for, go to Marketplace and see what the brokers are selling them for.
Some of these links are old but they have a lot of discussion you should read first.
The new Mitsubishi Outlander is a 3-row SUV and the mid trim has all the bells and whistles of more expensive brands like a 360 camera, sunroof etc.
They also seem to be more out there than others so less of a chance of markups. When we were looking back in September, there were some good lease deals that were mid $300s if I remember correctly.
And like Hyundai/Kia, it has a 5-year warranty and is better tha its Nissan Rogue cousin.
If the PHEV version of the refresh was out already we would have probably got it.
That’s one of my top choices but where I’m at they’re hard to get since we only have like 4-5 dealers in my state.
I’m wondering if I should have bought my lease out early because it seems like deals are worse for January. Hopefully I can cross my fingers and hope February is any better.
Maybe loyalty or conquest, or costco but hard to find dealers that are open to that? Did you look at Toyota Highlanders at all? @Jrouleau426 has some decent pricing on them, AWD, Leather, and Sunroof. I would be getting a Toyota over a Mitsubishi reliability wise
I just bought a sorento and love it, although there are reliability concerns (not mine, Kia forums) over it’s dual clutch transmission.
I’m in Los Angeles and every dealer wanted $3000 over msrp. I finally found one dealer selling at msrp with no add ons, so I financed.
I went with the Kia over the Santa Fe because I need the option for the third row. I do also like the sorento styling better.
If I didn’t need the third row I would have gone for the Santa Fe, because it’s slightly cheaper/better value and Hyundai was offering zero percent financing whereas Kia is 1.9.
