Had the opportunity to make a big luxury non-car purchase recently and decided to free up whatever equity was left in my 2025 Rover and move into a lease. All I can say is if you want a current body style Rover now, get a CPO and not new.
Great vehicle and I’ll miss it, but I’m sure another Rover will be in my future down the road.
As for the replacement, I really tried to hack a 13 month S580, but dealers weren’t interested in my offers.
Other than Gwagens, my other favorite Mercedes is an AMG E-class wagon, which I felt was an acceptable “downgrade” from the Rover. The local dealer had this sitting for over 100 days. It’s not the best lease in the world but cheaper monthly than my Rover payments. I got 7% off at buy rate and did full MSDs for a 24/10 deal. It was probably the cheapest MSRP E53 wagon in the country with a $99k sticker as it only had the pinnacle package option checked.
Need to get used to being lower but so far it’s a great daily driver and it’s not even broken in yet. Love that it has electric range. Will get 20% tint all around in a few weeks.