Signed and took delivery last night in Socal!
One-pay: $9050 (also included delivery from the dealer, which would have been a $75 uber for me)
MSRP: $53500 (excluding $295 in added features)
Lease details: SIGNED! – See what others paid for their leases
Digital Teal / Dark Green
My last lease (which was not great
) ended last month and I wanted to replace with an Ioniq 5 Limited RWD. I started checking marketplace regularly a couple of months ago, and while there were seemed to be good deals, the inventory in LA seemed fairly high, so I decided to see if pricing got even better. I was also looking at a one-pay b/c it made shopping easier.
Fast-forward to mid-June, I noticed the deals were getting slightly better (but still around ~$10000), and finally last week, there was a flash sale from one broker to ~$8800, which I was inclined to take given my bad experience leasing last time, but decided to call dealers anyway not expecting to be able to get a competitive offer.
So this weekend, I contacted the ~35 dealers within a 100mi radius of me. There was mostly a mix of:
- can’t get close to that deal. we’d be offering $14k (+ some saying that the $8800 is a really good deal and that I should take it)
- that’s a forum post (I sent them the broker post on leasehackr), send me something real
- expressing interest and taking my contact info, but never actually calling me back
- we don’t do one-pay leases
But after the ~20th call, one dealer made a competitive offer (cheaper than the broker offer, if the broker fee is included), and then I called another set of dealers, got 3 more competitive offers. I decided to go with the first dealer I contacted b/c they had the color scheme I wanted and they were able to best the offers from the other 3.
I may have been able to negotiate down a bit more (maybe sub-$9000?), but I decided to take good enough (based off of marketplace and previously posted signed deals) and call it a day.
