Car Buying Advice--Luxury vehicles with highest residual values currently

schmatschmat

You guys are constantly looking at Money Factors and residual values - thought it would be a very useful thread for those of us who are nearing the end of our lease terms, and don't particularly care what vehicle we purchase, but are just looking for a great deal on a luxury automobile, be it sedan, wagon or SUV.

As an example, my last car purchased was a GMC Denali truck, which I picked up under employee pricing, with a residual value of 72% after 36/10. Nothing down and $450 a month on a $65,000 truck.

Are you able to provide guidance towards either general models, or as in the case of the Denali package, specific models that are currently carrying a disproportionately high residual value, or great combination of residual, MF, etc to help us find the sweet spot in leases?

Michaell

schmatschmat said:

You guys are constantly looking at Money Factors and residual values - thought it would be a very useful thread for those of us who are nearing the end of our lease terms, and don't particularly care what vehicle we purchase, but are just looking for a great deal on a luxury automobile, be it sedan, wagon or SUV.

As an example, my last car purchased was a GMC Denali truck, which I picked up under employee pricing, with a residual value of 72% after 36/10. Nothing down and $450 a month on a $65,000 truck.

Are you able to provide guidance towards either general models, or as in the case of the Denali package, specific models that are currently carrying a disproportionately high residual value, or great combination of residual, MF, etc to help us find the sweet spot in leases?

Not really - we've got over 200 specific make / model lease threads we maintain. We'd rather keep the interest localized then try to answer general questions in one thread; could get real messy, real quick.

Find the threads for the models you are interested in and post your questions there.

One last thing - a high residual is only part of the equation. You also have to factor in the MF, any available lease cash and the discount from sticker you can get.