It’s definitely a mystery to me how they’re able to structure these sort of deals. Your total lease cost over the 24 months is about $5,000 (incl tax but not MSDs). Yet the delta between the sales price and RV is about $8k. I’m dying to see how these contracts look cause this feels like the tip of the iceberg as far as major hacks.
I think BMW has intentionally created these deals by 1) inflating the MSRP to include the E-Drive even though the market doesn’t seem to value that feature and 2) kept residuals at same fraction as normal 3-series.
Will be interesting to see if they change these parameters on the next generation!