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I have analyzed the offer, and here is what I come up with:
36 month Residual = 50%
Money Factor = .0010, or 2.45%
$1799 up front costs include:
$399 first month payment
$595 aquisition fee
$805 cap cost reduction.
If these assumptions are true, then it looks like Cadillac is also offering the dealers lease cash (which would not surprise me). It looks to me to be about $1250, based on their publicized Cap Cost.
Can you verify all of this information for me, and point me in the right direction where I made any mistakes?
Thanks in advance.
Do you have the residual and MF for 2001 Honda Accord EX 4cyl and 6cyl for the month of May? Did they change the program from last month? Thanks for the info.
Best Reagrds,
Curt
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We have a few days to do our own fixes, but this is bad; our mileage was low. Wish I'd video'd the car before husband took it in, and will before we do the final turn in-
Thanks Again - Damon
This is another car I am considering. What are the lease factors and residuals for the 'car', for 36, or 39 months?
Also, are there any incentives out there?
By the way, the reason I am looking at these GM cars is because I have a bunch of GM funny money (credit card) to apply to the 'down payment' - about $3200 or so.
Damon
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Amazing how much the Rendevous is expected to depreciate. There is no way I would lease one of those.
Damon
Could you tell me what the Residual and MF for a Passat 1.8 GLS 2001.5 would be? I checked last month and just want to make sure they have not changed. I am looking at both 36 and 39 month leases with 12K miles. Thanks for all the help.
I understand that Audi recently started a special lease deal for the Audi TT Roadster (and other vehicles).. Could you provide me with the money factors and residuals for a 27 month lease with 12K miles and 15K miles - No $ down.
Thanks again,
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You certainly have picked a cool car. The TT is definitely one of my favorite vehicles on the road today. Even though its lease money factors really aren't that special, its residual values are still high enough that it makes a decent car to lease.
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Anyway, what is the concept behind multiple security deposits? I am also looking at a BMW 330i, and elsewhere in the town hall they say that BMW financial offers this solution to "BUY DOWN" the money factor.
How much does each security deposit reduce your money factor by? The gentelman on another posting said he used 9 security deposits to reduce his money factor to .0011 on a 330i lease.
And if this is the case, why does anyone try to reduce the cap cost when they can reduce the MF and get the security deposits back?
Help!!!!
39 months 36000 miles
mf .00095 res 54%
tax is 8.25%
with taxes in payment 418.44 plus sec bank 1st mth and dmv upfront
we started at 480 and down to this just want to make sure this looks good he said there was a program and called me with new price also how much would mf and res change if we do 36 mths
thanks
car man
I am interested in leasing the 2001 Audi 1.8T. What is the standard interest rate for people with excellent credit? Are there any special lease rates on this car (I'm in the NYC area, but I'm willing to drive quite a bit if other states offer better deals)? Could you tell me the residual for 36 months, 15,000 miles?
How does this 2001 model being out for almost a year, and the 2002 model coming in a few months affect the negotiations? It is already about 9 months old, so when I drive it off the lot, won't it have depreciated much more than if I had driven it off the lot when it first came out? Other than getting a a new model year car with improvements, are there other factors I should consider?
Thanks.
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I don't think that the fact that this is a 2001 model will really have much ability on your ability to negotiate a good price on it, until right before or after the 2002 models hit showrooms. At that point, dealers may be more anxious to unload the older 2001 models, but right now the fact that you are interested in an '01 will not give you much more bargaining power than you normally would have with this car.
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I've saved up quite a bit of money, and I want to pay cash for whatever I go with. My budget is between $7500 and $9000. My choices seem pretty clear: buy a used car or lease a new one. After running some lease calculations on new cars with MSRPs in the $20,000 range, it seems I can budget around $9000 for total lease payments with a 24 month lease. Mind you, this includes interest payments, which I would like to avoid.
Here's my question: how do dealers deal with customers who want to pay for leases up front go out of the way to screw customers who want to pay up front? Is the basic calculation for overall payments on the kind of up front transaction I want to make the negotiated price minus the residual (plus fees and such)? Am I missing something?
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Suppose liger1 want to buy a $20k (msrp) car, and the 24 month residual is 75%. His good "prepay" rate is 0.0025 (6%).
If he calculates a normal lease payment, he would get a monthly pretax payment of $295.83 (208.33 princ + 87.5 inter). Multiplying this by 24 yields $7100 due at the signing (plus tax and fees).
However, wouldn't he be slightly better off making a payment to reduce the cap cost?
Suppose he pays $5000 to reduce the cap cost. His monthly lease payment would then be $75 (0 princ + 75 interest). Multipling by 24 and adding to the ccr results in $6800 plus fees due at signing, saving $300.
Not a whole lot of money, but considering its just how you do the math, why wouldn't you?
One last time; I just received word that my 01 A6 4.2 is due to arrive in the next 10-14 days. I'm preparing the final set of numbers to wrap up negotiations with the dealer. The 36 mth/12k lease was originally calculated 2/15/01 on invoice plus $2,600, which, including options and delivery, totals $50,300. The corresponding MSRP is $53,495.
With a $3,500 cap cost reduction, lux tax of $485, acq fee of $495, .0032 MF, 56% Residual, and 5% MA sales tax, the payment is about $755. On previous occasions you have indicated that both the quoted residual and MF were unfavorable and that the dealer may be padding the MF. I'd like to see if you have access to the current captive MF & residual figures for both 12k/36mth & 12k/39 mth leases. Won't bother you again - I promise!
Thanks again!
PS: I agree, the 2.7T is a better deal, but I just had to have the V8.
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Thanks in advance.
$ 43,460 MSRP
$ 39,800 out the door (incl. license, tax, and all fees)
$ 4,000 Cap cost reduction (total drive off, incl first month pymt)
$ 24,314 Residual (approx 56%)
.0032 money factor
39 months
$475 per month + tax for 39 months. I have done the calculations myself, and this seems like a really good starting point....the dealer stands to make about $800 due the holdback cost (the car is not even on the lot yet). Can it be that they are this straight forward and that I only need to negotiate the price of the car down a few hundred dollars or so? Or is my math totally screwed up?
What do you think?
ps. hopefully the $4000 Cap cost reduction can be put in a security deposit account?
I only posted because I wasn't sure what you were suggesting he do. Calculate a lease payment with no downpayment, then write a check for 24 times that amount, or make a large downpayment, calculate the lease payment (ends up interest only) and write a check for the total of the downpayment plus interest payments.
Anyway, I'm just going to go back to reading and learning. Thanks car_man for the service you provide to everyone.
I just took a look at the deal that you are considering and you calculated the monthly payment correctly. In my calculations, I came up with $474.32 per month. You certainly can try to get them to lower the price of the car somewhat, but overall I think that this is a fair deal. The $4,000 down payment that you are thinking about making will not have the same effect upon your monthly payment as additional security deposits totaling the same amount of money will, but the exact amount that they will lower your payments by will depend upon how much is deduced from the money factor for each one.
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Thanks!
Tom
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Thanks very much for the reply. One of the knowledgeable guys on the BMW 3-series board here at Edmunds indicates that BMW FS will extend lease promotions for 60 days beyond the expiration date as long as you are approved within the promotion period (I am). If this is the case, I'd be covered as the promotion would be good for me until 9/2. My car should be in long before that (hopefully). I called the finance dept. at my dealership and they seemed to confirm this. Does that sound right to you? You're right also that the MF could be less in July. I can only hope!
Tom