I want to say MF this year almost offsets the less perceived rebates. You really cant beat .00007
This afternoon I will be grounding my $664/mo 2023 RSGT, and will miss it. I can’t believe a year has already gone by. Seems like yesterday that I flew out to OH to get the car and then turned right around and drove back 500 miles to PA.
Overall, my RSGT has been flawless. Looking forward to killer deals in a couple of years to hack an RSGT Performance!
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I’m planning on leasing a new 24 E Tron GT hopefully on Monday. It’ll be my first Audi, had BMWs before. I love the car and looking forward to it.
I am wondering if the dealer will try the usual upsells at signing eg tire/wheel package. Audi care is already included.
Did anyone buy eg tire/wheel, how much was it and is it worth it?
Thanks!
Hi, Do you have the vin or the dealer where you ground this one? I’m interested to know how much they’re selling used etron gt.
You can immediately lease the same car back for another 24 months. Selling cost lower than residual but standard rate so around $800ish rent charges+tax
Thanks, but I found an even crazier deal back in June to replace the RSGT
SM sent the car back to Audi bc Audi wanted a crazy $93k for it! Low $90k is what he would have retailed it for.
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Ouch, I wonder how much it will actually sold for on the market. High 70 will be pretty good imho.
It does not really matter since very few buy that. Dealer list at $90-100k since the residual would be around $100k for 24/7500 used lease. The selling price cannot be lower than residual for AFS to fund. Added Audicare, Lojack, and whole bunch of craps to reach the residual value 
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Audi Care is optional.
IIRC someone observed recently negotiating w/t DOWN to the $1200 or 1600 range.
So far at 15 months I’ve had one ugly wheel rash repair ($125) and one nail puncture repaired ($0 at Discount Tire).
I would need to do at least 9 more cosmetic wheel repairs (one per month until the lease ends) just to break even on 1200 for the coverage.
(And others have suggested that I overpaid for the wheel repair. I didn’t shop on price, I picked a place with stellar reviews and the cost was too nominal to troll for lower bids.)
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Anyone in need of 20” OE summer tires for their lease? I’m selling a set of take offs
I am intersted in getting an Etron GT, but was curious on features and technology. Is the car pretty bare bones and does it have the technology to compete with the iX or Tesla or is what you see is what you get?
thats a very broad question. here is a sticker of base eTron GT (which they call premium plus). i have an iX and a RS GT so know them both well and i had a X for a few months as well. solid all around car with fairly comparable tech.
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I lied, deals this month are wicked for the RS e-tron GT with how much Audi is supplying in lease cash!
But I still don’t regret picking mine up when I did lol, but at least next time I know I should extend my lease another month or so to get wicked deals on the face-lift ones in 2 years.
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Update to this, I calculated the payoff wrong. Apparently since I totalled the car, I’m effectively “terminating” the lease early, therefore I would owe the remaining payments (minus the remaining rent fees), similar to if you default and the car gets repossessed.
The payoff is completely different vs if you were trading in said vehicle to another Audi product, where it would be your Net Cap Cost - what you’ve paid towards the lease.
One great thing, however, is that once Audi/VW Lease is notified of the total loss, they will backdate the insurance payment to the date of issue, so if it’s between your payment date + the 10 day grace period, but they receive it after the 10 day grace period, they will reverse any late fees.
In addition, they will not report late payments to credit agencies until the 29th day past your payment date. But if they do report any late payments, they will reverse what they report to the agencies, so any lowered score will correct itself the next time they send the updates out to the agency.
This is not from any Audi/VW FS agent, they are clueless Customer Service Rep. This is a dedicated total loss department with a seperate phone #, they only speak to you if you have a case with them.
Details? I haven’t seen anything great recently but I also haven’t been looking.
I believe he’s referring to the $10,000 national Audi credit. Is this stackable with the $7,500 EV credit?
RS GT lease rebates are $12500 customer credit + $7500 rebate. Base GT is now only $5k + $7500.
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Picked up an RS for the wife recently. She got annoyed when I got a 25 M8 because it was faster than her X3M. No joke! 
Had to correct that because you know what they say about happy wife….
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I grounded my '23 RS ~$700/mo effective one-pay last week, two months early.
Very nice car for the price. Never had to take it in for service due to a defect, though there were electronic and software gremlins that would come and go occasionally.
Good power, good enough brakes, very comfortable suspension, and rear axle steering is magical.
The two-speed gearbox is great from a performance perspective, but a PITA day-to-day if you drive in Comfort mode and don’t like the car downshifting and pausing one mississippi two mississippi BANG if you goose it a little too hard.
The air suspension is very comfy but feels like it has virtually no travel and will regularly hit the bumpstops on large dips at high speed; not very confidence inspiring.
Steering is accurate, but light and lifeless. Combine that with the car weighing 5k+ lbs and it’s a competent handler but nothing special. That’s a luxury EV for you.
MMI is functional but way behind iDrive in…just about every way.
The front doors rattle like they’re full of rocks; the car has a really disappointing overall level of squeaks and rattles for something so expensive. The interior materials and quality feel like they’re priced about right for a base etron GT, but not a $160k RS. I guess that’s why nobody pays that much for one 
ADAS suite is OK, not great. It’s all Porsche hardware and it seems they DGAF. Adaptive cruise acceleration can be adjusted from lazy to quite aggressive, which is nice, and is overall well tuned. Lane centering is bad, worse than Audi’s own system in their entry level cars. You get used to it, but it’s a system where you don’t even dream of going hands-off for more than a second or two at a time. It is nice it can be enabled on any road at any time, though.
Great looking car and got lots of compliments and gawking from all quarters, and my toddler loved the goofy dancing lightshow crap the headlights and taillights do when locking and unlocking.
For the price, I can easily ignore the annoyances.
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