Problem is, when I use a lease calculator I get a lower payment amount. When I asked why, this is what was said:
Your sales price including rebate is $140,065. If we take the taxes from your rebate and down payment of $743.75, add to it the acquisition fee of $1095, Cap Red of $1892.16, tax$ of $701.98, and the $409.25 you’ll input a sales price of $144,907.14
And when I asked for some more clarification on why this screenshot does not match what I get on lease calculators, I got this:
The Cap Red is the amount remaining from your $5,000 down that is applied to the principal of your lease to decrease the payment. The $409.25 is the combination of your state titling fees and our doc, convenience fee, and tire tax.
So where I’m confused is…
How does putting a $5000 deposit down results in a subsequent $1892 increase to the lease amount?
Why are taxes being calculated on the rebate and downpayment?
He references a tax amount of both $701.98 and $743.75 and I’m following why there are two.
Is all of this on the up-and-up or is something fishy going on here?
Here’s roughly where I started off at. What I’m not sure of is whether or not the 7,500 EV rebate should be a reduction in the price or if it should be included in the downpayment.
Obviously cars get updated every year. But I’m struggling to see what updates can be worth 2x payment over some of the 2023 and 2024 deals we have seen recently
I mean this is the nicest way possible, as a 2x taycan leasee. Do not do this, you will be underwater to high heaven after like 6 months if the market goes the way it probably will.
Additionally, this is flat MSRP on a brand new 2025 taycan, do you want to overpay that much when Porsche isn’t going to be subventing like they did on 23s for quite some time?
The Taycan has a money factor roughly 10x that of its sibling the Audi E-Tron GT (0.00370 vs 0.00035), if you’re hell-bent on an EV you might want to look outside of Porsche (Lucid?). FWIW I also looked at Panameras owing to the range concern (and it being ~30% less than the Taycan), but I read on Edmunds someone getting quotes at 0.0045…
FWIW, I got like 240 miles highway in winter - it’ll do more, but I wouldn’t take it on a road trip unless I had no other options - the EQS and Lucid are undisputed range & mile-munching kings.
I’ve been an Audi owner for most of the last 15 years, but I don’t really love the plasticy look to the GT. I still test drove one though and the MF that I wasn’t all that different than what Porsche was handing out.
What I really want is an EV version of the RS6, but the images released so far of their EV wagon removed all the personality for the RS6. Plus, I need a car by middle of August and it won’t be out by then.
You’re really going to pay 2700/mo for a Taycan? Man EVs make people do wild stuff. You can finance a panamera for way lower TCO. Or a 911 for sure. You could drive a real RS6 that isn’t a go kart for lower TCO
I am no Tesla fan but would just buy a plaid with track pack which is substantially quicker , has better range and probably drives similarly to better , for similar to less money and worth something in 3 years
