Good question, for me personally, I love the Audi look. I am not the greatest fan of the BMW iX, although I know it’s a nice car. You’ll probably hate this but I am turning my Tesla lease in for this potentially lol.
I mean mine was $83k and I pay $670 after tax with Audi Care. Is that overpriced? I agree at $850-900/month it’s overpriced. But on the same token, you could argue a Tesla is overpriced or a Lyric is overpriced or any number of other cars that would’ve probably cost me more money per month, despite having a lower sticker price, and nowhere nearly as good of a car.
An arbitrary number like MSRP really means little to nothing here. There was nothing stopping Audi from assigning a MSRP of $100k or 68k to the exact same car, and suddenly the same lease payment looks artificially a lot better or a lot worse.
But that’s just optics. Nothing changed in reality.
A similarly equipped Lyric would be a lot less than the OP’s price for a Q8e so I’m not sure why the Lyric would be overpriced?
The problem is a similarly equipped Lyriq will not drive as a Q8e. I had a friend with a Lyriq driving my Q8e SB and he said it’s just not even close (I did not drive the Lyriq…) the range is about 280 with AC always on in Cali. My was 85k msrp, 15k, 24 months, 778 a month with 2k down
The effective monthly looks relatively comparable to what brokers are offering, but a calc would be rather useful since you’ve posted some information/numbers that seems conflicting.