Actually, speaking of windows...how cool is it that the back windows roll all the way down? Seems at odds with the safety mindedness of nav lockout, but whatever.

 

So after all that, what was your reasoning for putting $2000 down? I mean it seems like that would have only saved you $50 a month. To me, anytime someone puts something down on a lease then in essence they are payment shopping. I am a person that says "never say never", But I cant come up with one reason why anyone would ever put anything down on a lease.


After thinking about that for a second...... I guess I can think of one reason why people do it..... They can put the down payment on a credit card (which is even worse)

 

Dude, the $2,050 is taxes and first payment. I share your philosophy of no money down on a lease.

 

~$1500 for taxes? To me, anything above the first payment seems like money down. You dont pay the sales tax separately on a finance deal, you roll them into the loan. You could have done the same thing on the lease.

 

If you roll them in, you pay a finance charge on it. The counterpoint is that there is an advantage of not rolling them--if the car is totaled, you lose the money. Paying finance charges on taxes just seems wrong to me.

 

Putting $1500 out of pocket and then get smashed by a big rig and loosing every dime of that just seems wrong to me!

 

I am guessing the finance charges on a $1500 down payment would be around $70. Thats around $3.00/month for a 24 month lease. Sounds like cheap insurance to me.

 

+1... still the same situation if you pay the taxes up front. you ain't gettin em back from uncle sam if you wreck!

 

MSRP 40,665
1999 Firebird trade in (couldn't sell it on my own)
No money due at signing
12,000 miles per year
39 months
346.50 per month

 

What did they give you on your trade? I am guessing around $5500?

 

They gave me 7000.00 - It was in pristine condition with only 25000 miles and it was a convertible. Would have loved to sell it on my own but I guess where I live it's not very sought after being rear wheel drive. If it was an 8 cyl. I'm sure it would have sold a lot easier, but it was just a 6 cyl. I don't know if I got a good deal or not, what do you all think.

 

myy boy just went out and bought one which he put down his first payment , and just first payment prob taxess not suree.. but he pays 566 for 39 months.. not badd i guess for nothing down

 

When I did the calculations really quickly, I thought it came out to 5500 for the trade, but they may have charged you a higher money factor or played around with the residual. Hard to tell with out all the details

 

I just worked the deal on my 3rd G35 sedan yesterday. 07 Sport, Platinum Graphite with Stone interior, with Premium, Navi, Tech. Got VPP on the lease, and with $1000 down, plus first payment and fees, comes to $520/month for 39 months.
Hopefully picking it up today.

 

42 month lease - 15k/year
$1000(first payment)
monthly payment of $540