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The old manual transmission, alas good friend, I knew ye well. I had a streak of three consecutive cars with sticks before I got married. I taught my wife how to drive a stick and she was very good at it, but she says that driving them makes her nervous so I'm back in automatic land again. Acura has a pretty attractive lease program available on the 2005 RSX right now. Its current base lease money factor and residual value for a 3 year, 12,000 miles per lease of a 2005 RSX Type S are .00057 and 59%, respectively. Car_man Host Smart Shopper Message Board
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Hello 6422130. Here is the information that you are looking for. According to the latest informaiton that I have seen, if you were to lease a 2004 Honda Pilot EX-L RES through American Honda Finance Corp. this month for 3 years with 15,000 miles per, its base lease money factor and residual value should be .00136 and 59%, respectively. The factor and residual for an otherwise identical 4 year lease should be .00225 and 51%. When negotiating your lease on this truck, keep in mind that Honda is providing $500 dealer cash on it that will help you to negotiate an attractive capitalized cost. Honda is not providing any sort of support on the 2005 Pilot yet. So if you were to lease one through AHFC right now, you would have to use its standard lease money factors. Its current standard money factors for 3 and 4 year leases are .00250 and .00225. The corresponding 15,000 miles per year residual values for a 2005 Pilot EX RES are 62% and 55%. Car_man Host Smart Shopper Message Board |
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| Hi - First post here in Edmunds. I have a 2002 Saturn L300 that I am leasing and I got a call from Saturn saying they will terminate my lease early (June '05) if I lease/buy another Saturn (and I would guess any GM make, like I have done before). I want a minivan next, maybe the Chevy Uplander or Saturn Relay, but in the past GM vans have poor residuals, and therefore are poor lease vehicles, correct? Also being so new (due to dealers maybe next week) there won't be any special deals on these vehicles for a while I would assume. My current Saturn has only 23k miles on it, very good condition - would I get any bonus from a dealer because of this? Thanks in advance. | |
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Hi Car_Man, I am still looking at leases on Jeeps. The weekend paper had an ad for an 05 Liberty Sport for 239.00 for 24/12k. The ad said 1480.00 due at signing. When I called the dealer to get more info he said the MSRP was 23,780.00 and that the total down was 1480.00 + another 700.00 aquisition fee. Does that extra 700.00 sound right to you? Also I plan to try to get the price down to around 21,750.00 or so. Can I push them to lower that payment based off of that or is it in stone since this is a Jeep special offer right now? |
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| I have a 2002 VW Beetle, just over 16,000 miles on it. The lease runs out in January. I want to turn it now. I have replaced it with a Ford and they gave me enough money to pay if off now. However, according to VW, (Huntington Bank) I can't. They say I can't turn it in earlier even though I am willing to pay the final monthly payments. This makes no sense to me at all. Is this true. If so please explain the rationale to me cause I sure as hell don't understand it. Thanks | |
| I'm interested in leasing the '04 Acura TSX. However, the '05's come out 10/26/04- not too long from now. I'm not sure how long it will take edmunds.com to get all the important information up onto their website (like the INVOICE price!). But here's my question: is it better to wait for the '05's to come out and then lease an '04 in the hopes that there will be discounts OR is it better to get an '05 (won't the residual value be higher on a newer car thereby making the lease payments lower?)? Not sure which is the better route....Thanks for the help! | |
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Replying to: Car_man (Oct 18, 2004 3:44 am) The dealer did waive the security deposit in exchange for a slight increase in the money factor. We couldn't come to agreement on my trade, so we didn't do the deal. After thinking about it though, I think that paying the security deposit up front is probably better since I'll get this money back at lease termination correct? Thanks again! dv8tor |
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| Hi Carman! Could you give me the current MF and residual for October in the state of Washington on the 2005 RX 330 AWD w/o Nav, 12,000/15,000 miles per year for 36 months, please? Also, are there any rebates or incentives from Lexus on this vehicle? Thanks very much for all the help you give all of us! | |
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Replying to: Car_man (Oct 18, 2004 4:01 am) thanks |
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| Considering either a 2005 acura TL or 2004 bmw 330i. 3 year, 15,000 mile lease. No cap cost reduction. Acura will sell the car for $31,750, but with a 56% residual and .00207 money factor. Payment works out to about $554 including tax. Both residual and money factor seem high. I currently have a 2001 TL on a 42 month lease, and residual was 56% on that. Seems like it should be higher on 2005. BMW says 57% residual and have given me a variety of money factors, lowest being .0018. Are these good residuals and money factors on these cars? Are these items negotiable? Thanks! | |
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