I’m in the PNW and these deals I constantly see on here for the east coast, and Texas can’t even be touched out here. What is the cause of this?
West cost has too much money
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Competition in dense urban environments. Some dealers will deliver.
Strange. I see a lot of California deals that are insane and only for CA residents.
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I guess I don’t really consider California the Pnw lol. Only good deals I feel like I see in CA are electric vehicles
What is PNW???
Washington State and Oregon. Harder to find good deals here. And MF is almost always inflated.
I’m in the south, in NC, and I attribute our low lease tax (3%) and insane growth rates to how difficult it is to find a decent deal here. I always have to find something out of state and wait until last day of month to have a local guy try to match it.
Good deals on EVs in California because there is enough of a market for them that they can be sold at volume.
The SF Bay Area has lots of rich techies scooping up EVs and PHEVs, so deals are not as good as Southern California. $200/mo is a “low consideration purchase” for the techies.
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IMHO, the South doesn’t have good deals. Most of the amazing deals are in SoCal, NY, NJ, PA, MD, and NoVA. The occasional MA deal too. We have a lot more competition dealer wise. Whereas the Seattle area only has like 2 or 3 BMW dealers, we have 15+ within an hour drive of Central NJ
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Agree. When you are paying an 8000/mth mortgage on a $1.5M 3br/1.5 bath 1250 sq. Ft bungalow, a 200/mth lease payment is inconsequential.
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I’m in Seattle metro. Agree that deals are hard to find in the PNW, but not impossible. Portland is better for MB and BMW. Seattle is better for Subaru, Kia, Hyundai etc.
Heck, even our registration costs are astronomical.
Just part of the cost of living, I guess.
DC is the same way, 4 BMW dealerships within 45 (on Saturday morning, not rush hour), even more infiniti dealerhaips. And if I wanted to get ambitious both Baltimore and Richmond have 1 or 2 of all the major dealerships under two hours away. More competition equals better options for consumer.
Only issue is taxes are bad for leasing in VA and MD.
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I know several Google/Facebook/apple/etc… techies (and I’m definitely not super bitter that I didn’t follow them into computer science). I assure you most aren’t buying/leasing compliance electrics. If you are going to be paying 400 bucks a month for a parking spot in the Mission District you aren’t putting a 200 buck a month car in it.
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Yeah definitely don’t think TX is a good deal (I live here). 6.25% tax on selling price is painful!
You are looking at the wrong demographic. Look at San Jose, not San Francisco. Intel, Cisco, and Walmart.com not FB and Google.
The east coast can be spotty. I live in PA and aside from a certain BMW dealer in Ohio that had a firesale and produced the $100 330e and a few other unicorn deals, I can’t recall anyone else scoring what they consider a hackr lease deal on the western side of the state going into Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, etc.
A lot of good deals seem to come out of the DC Metro area and NYC/NJ, places with a high population density and multiple dealers within a certain brand that are aggressive. You rarely see deals from the south and most Florida dealers seem to take back a nice chunk of the dealer discount with their absurd doc fees.
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bad may be an understatement, horrific comes to mind.
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don’t expect those to happen in the future either at that particular dealership. Change in ownership + need to get old units off books = firesale.
Yea I am reading some of the deals others have found, and I find the quotes in TX are nowhere near as good in comparison. Originally leased my BMW In NY and feel like I got a great deal there, but here in TX it seems less impressive. I know some of it has to do with the sales tax up front difference in TX.