So it seems New Jersey is the sweet spot for EV lease deals, although it appears part of the low payment is the no-tax policy for EV leases, but the incentives for dealers seem to be much better there.
My very first lease was a cross-country deal where my Florida dealer (JM Lexus) was trying to get me into a RX350h lease for $800+ while another dealer in Cerritos CA gave me the same car for about $375. When I tried to get a price match, JM Lexus blew up, threatening me, telling me leasing from California is illegal, itâs impossible, Iâll be suedâŚblah blah - needless to say after the lease ended, it was JM Lexus who bought the car off me for my remaining equity.
So here we go again. I will soon need my next car and see some incredible deals on Ariyas in New Jersey vs California. Not my first choice for a car, but for $200/mo, I can fall in love easily. It appears some of the brokers and dealers there are very hostile to out of state inquiries, so the question here is has anyone from the community successfully completed a NJ lease with NJ incentives without a NJ drivers license (but perhaps with a âtemporaryâ NJ address), then transferred the lease to their real home address in another state the following month?
Obvious the payment will adjust according to any applicable sales tax, but that wonât make up the difference between the much lower payments in NJ with their special leases vs what a local dealer can offer, which isnât even close. So I am hoping to go that route if there is a way to make it happen.
California doesnât offer the 18 month Ariya leases, and the NJ leases price out in the high 180s to low 200s per month, while California is in the 300s and 400s for longer leases.
To answer the question i asked, CA doesnt get the $3120 North East 18 month lease bonus, so thats the actual cost difference. How much of that gets eaten up with the cost of shipping and double registration expenses?
The extra registration is about $500, and shipping the car is about $1,000 unless we decide to make a roadtrip out of it. So that leaves a discount of $1,620 which is a significant amount over 18 months.
Also the lack of an 18 month lease option is a non-starter as this is planned solely as a transitional car, I donât want it for much longer than that.
How would you know? Itâs not like you are a high volume broker in NJ .
The juice isnât worth the squeeze. One thing goes wrong and you are spending a ton of time and more than the money saved to fix the issue. For example, the dealer unwinding th deal when the State tells them you arenât eligible.
Itâs also probably illegal but that doesnât figure into the extrinsic calculus.
Can someone explain what tax weâre talking about here? Monthly sales tax on the payment? Or a different tax?
If itâs monthly sales tax on the payment, I donât care about that because after I move the car to California and register it there, Iâll start paying 8.75% sales tax on the base payment regardless.
Iâm focused on the incentives and 18 month lease to get the base payment as low as possible and I donât want the car longer than 18 or so months and it doesnât look like I can get an 18 month lease outside of the NE on this car.
If the incentives from Nissan are the same in NY/NJ/PA/MD and the lease length is also the same, then I donât really need New Jersey specifically.
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