First, thank you all. Newbie member but I’m learning a lot quickly! However, my current top-of-list vehicle – a Kia EV6 GT – has some wrinkles:
- 2025 models are delayed in appearing on lots (but show decent lease terms)
- remaining 2024 models no longer qualify for lease terms & Kia doesn’t lease CPOs
- remaining & used 2024s financing is messy:
- A $500 “You Pay The Same” incentive that’s cryptic about what program it is matching (not CostcoAuto but above TrueCar?)
- A $12,000 dealer-only “Supplemental Dealer Cash Incentive Program - Retail Sales” for specific sales codes, which are acronym soup: KAPR, KLSE, CSALE, KCSP, RCSP, INSUR, DBFLT, TDRIV, DBNLA, KFA, KNA, BRKR, CCP, FLEXM, FLEXZ, TDLUX, and SVC
- (A.I. has some fun guesstimates about what those mean.)
I only see a few 2024 GTs with price reductions showing that dealer-only $12K, but in theory it applies to more 2024 GTs. Maybe including where my local dealer honors CostcoAuto leads and NJ’s ChargeUp. Is that correct?
(Either way, it’s still no replacement for the earlier-in-the-year lease terms on 2024s or last summer’s Sales Event.)
Ultimately I’m debating whether a “priced to move” 2024 GT is worth it versus waiting on the 2025s. Or just take the current 2025 GT-Line lease incentives and go for a full GT later when there’s a good Lease Hack to be (with a Loyalty bonus, too).
Advice with more historical understanding of Kia’s annual inventive cycles would be very welcome. And again, thank you all.