Best lease car deals available?

[Blown2CV]

Toaster Pilot said:

Snollygoster said:

Sonic said:

All 5 door, all tornado red. 2 with DSG, 1 manual. It's just too good of a deal!

I'm hoping as we ordered them together they'll get sequential plates which would make for quite an amusing photo opportunity

Ask Scott to ask the the dealer to do this. When they are registering car, the dealer will have 20 or so registrations in chronological order with just 1 letter of the last 3 different.

Depends on the dealer - I bought a new car a couple of years ago from Arnold Clark and they would only slap a random registration on it and not let me choose from X available ones. Fits in with the whole "pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap" model I guess, no frills.

they probably don't want each customer spending half an hour with the sales admin scanning through pages and pages of meaningless registrations in the customer's hope of finding a free perceived vanity plate, as the paperwork piles up in the admin's in-tray. They won't find what they are hoping for anyway!

[Blown2CV]

Joey Deacon said:

I usually run cars around the shed budget but every now and again I toy with the idea of leasing something dirt cheap. Last time I did the maths it worked out around £40 a month more expensive to run a brand new Skoda Citigo than my Shed E46 318.

Basically I am after the lease car with the cheapest monthly payment per month and with the smallest deposit. Can we have the actual monthly cost, not "it's only £99 a month! (With a £3K deposit)" So far the cheapest deals I have found so far have been a Skoda Citigo and a Fiat Panda for £109 a month with a £109 deposit.

I do 10K miles a year and bonus points for free servicing (The skoda deal comes with this) and cheap road tax.

Can anybody find a cheaper way to run a brand new car than leasing a Skoda Citigo?

citroen c1. Drive these cars before signing is my warning to you.

[Snollygoster]

Blown2CV said:

Toaster Pilot said:

Snollygoster said:

Sonic said:

All 5 door, all tornado red. 2 with DSG, 1 manual. It's just too good of a deal!

I'm hoping as we ordered them together they'll get sequential plates which would make for quite an amusing photo opportunity

Ask Scott to ask the the dealer to do this. When they are registering car, the dealer will have 20 or so registrations in chronological order with just 1 letter of the last 3 different.

Depends on the dealer - I bought a new car a couple of years ago from Arnold Clark and they would only slap a random registration on it and not let me choose from X available ones. Fits in with the whole "pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap" model I guess, no frills.

they probably don't want each customer spending half an hour with the sales admin scanning through pages and pages of meaningless registrations in the customer's hope of finding a free perceived vanity plate, as the paperwork piles up in the admin's in-tray. They won't find what they are hoping for anyway!

Sales admin can print/email a list of about 50 reg's off and can crack on with the rest of her day. You then have 24 hours to pick it. Usually no one will have a problem with this is you ask the dealer. Considering you're buying a car from them, they can spare you 5 minutes of their time.

Chronological order being the next one along. For example, when my last car turned up with another 6 or so cars on a transporter, the reg's were nearly identical, all being "YE14 LX?" with just the last letter different, and were in order so K, L, M, N, O, P.

When they are registering the cars, it just picks the next one available in their AFRAL system.

[Chicane-UK]

I wonder how VW dealerships feels about all these lease companies being able to undercut them by miles on Golf R's.. who would go and buy one with these prices?

[Blown2CV]

Snollygoster said:

Blown2CV said:

Toaster Pilot said:

Snollygoster said:

Sonic said:

All 5 door, all tornado red. 2 with DSG, 1 manual. It's just too good of a deal!

I'm hoping as we ordered them together they'll get sequential plates which would make for quite an amusing photo opportunity

Ask Scott to ask the the dealer to do this. When they are registering car, the dealer will have 20 or so registrations in chronological order with just 1 letter of the last 3 different.

Depends on the dealer - I bought a new car a couple of years ago from Arnold Clark and they would only slap a random registration on it and not let me choose from X available ones. Fits in with the whole "pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap" model I guess, no frills.

they probably don't want each customer spending half an hour with the sales admin scanning through pages and pages of meaningless registrations in the customer's hope of finding a free perceived vanity plate, as the paperwork piles up in the admin's in-tray. They won't find what they are hoping for anyway!

Sales admin can print/email a list of about 50 reg's off and can crack on with the rest of her day. You then have 24 hours to pick it. Usually no one will have a problem with this is you ask the dealer. Considering you're buying a car from them, they can spare you 5 minutes of their time.

Chronological order being the next one along. For example, when my last car turned up with another 6 or so cars on a transporter, the reg's were nearly identical, all being "YE14 LX?" with just the last letter different, and were in order so K, L, M, N, O, P.

When they are registering the cars, it just picks the next one available in their AFRAL system.

what about if two people choose the same one. If it was me I couldn't be arsed with it. It's like getting an assistant in tesco to spend ten minutes helping you pick out the best potato. They're all very similar indeed, and moreover no-one cares...

[Sonic]

theboss said:

Blown2CV said:

Circa 15% of the monthly payment is a lot for paint. On that basis I went with red and no options. After all it's not like you have to give a st about re-sale, it's purely aesthetics. On PCP it never seems to affect the price as it boosts the residuals slightly.

Nuts I agree - which is why I went red - start ticking options boxes and the whole deal starts losing its bargain factor.

Mine is the manual order in Sonic's trio. This 'poor relation' has had automatic diesels for a good few years so cut some slack guys!

I'll have to start referring to you as "the poor sibling".

[burwoodman]

Blown2CV said:

Joey Deacon said:

I usually run cars around the shed budget but every now and again I toy with the idea of leasing something dirt cheap. Last time I did the maths it worked out around £40 a month more expensive to run a brand new Skoda Citigo than my Shed E46 318.

Basically I am after the lease car with the cheapest monthly payment per month and with the smallest deposit. Can we have the actual monthly cost, not "it's only £99 a month! (With a £3K deposit)" So far the cheapest deals I have found so far have been a Skoda Citigo and a Fiat Panda for £109 a month with a £109 deposit.

I do 10K miles a year and bonus points for free servicing (The skoda deal comes with this) and cheap road tax.

Can anybody find a cheaper way to run a brand new car than leasing a Skoda Citigo?

citroen c1. Drive these cars before signing is my warning to you.

Sounds ominous-they really that bad? I can imagine it is lacking in power and refinement

[Blown2CV]

burwoodman said:

Blown2CV said:

Joey Deacon said:

I usually run cars around the shed budget but every now and again I toy with the idea of leasing something dirt cheap. Last time I did the maths it worked out around £40 a month more expensive to run a brand new Skoda Citigo than my Shed E46 318.

Basically I am after the lease car with the cheapest monthly payment per month and with the smallest deposit. Can we have the actual monthly cost, not "it's only £99 a month! (With a £3K deposit)" So far the cheapest deals I have found so far have been a Skoda Citigo and a Fiat Panda for £109 a month with a £109 deposit.

I do 10K miles a year and bonus points for free servicing (The skoda deal comes with this) and cheap road tax.

Can anybody find a cheaper way to run a brand new car than leasing a Skoda Citigo?

citroen c1. Drive these cars before signing is my warning to you.

Sounds ominous-they really that bad? I can imagine it is lacking in power and refinement

the fundamental thing is you get precisely what you pay for. Mrs 2CV has one. She couldn't care less about cars but even she wants something more solid and refined next time. The plus-side it that it has so little by way of complexity that it's very reliable for a French. It's not bad, it's just cheap. If you're coming out of a BMW, regardless of age, it will feel very different to what you're used to. Hence the recommendation for a test drive.

[Fast Bug]

Blown2CV said:

they probably don't want each customer spending half an hour with the sales admin scanning through pages and pages of meaningless registrations in the customer's hope of finding a free perceived vanity plate, as the paperwork piles up in the admin's in-tray. They won't find what they are hoping for anyway!

We don't have the time, we do 2000 vehicles a year in the fleet department without throwing retail in to the mix. We have 2 people that register vehicles, and we're not going to hold a reg number for 24 hours. I think we get a choice of 3 from the DVLA system, so like it or lump it that's your reg number. Sometimes they come out in order if we're registering a batch of vehicles, but we're not going to fanny around for ages doing it on purpose

[Blown2CV]

Fast Bug said:

Blown2CV said:

they probably don't want each customer spending half an hour with the sales admin scanning through pages and pages of meaningless registrations in the customer's hope of finding a free perceived vanity plate, as the paperwork piles up in the admin's in-tray. They won't find what they are hoping for anyway!

We don't have the time, we do 2000 vehicles a year in the fleet department without throwing retail in to the mix. We have 2 people that register vehicles, and we're not going to hold a reg number for 24 hours. I think we get a choice of 3 from the DVLA system, so like it or lump it that's your reg number. Sometimes they come out in order if we're registering a batch of vehicles, but we're not going to fanny around for ages doing it on purpose

but but but... the customer is always right!!

[BrabusMog]

Blown2CV said:

burwoodman said:

Blown2CV said:

Joey Deacon said:

I usually run cars around the shed budget but every now and again I toy with the idea of leasing something dirt cheap. Last time I did the maths it worked out around £40 a month more expensive to run a brand new Skoda Citigo than my Shed E46 318.

Basically I am after the lease car with the cheapest monthly payment per month and with the smallest deposit. Can we have the actual monthly cost, not "it's only £99 a month! (With a £3K deposit)" So far the cheapest deals I have found so far have been a Skoda Citigo and a Fiat Panda for £109 a month with a £109 deposit.

I do 10K miles a year and bonus points for free servicing (The skoda deal comes with this) and cheap road tax.

Can anybody find a cheaper way to run a brand new car than leasing a Skoda Citigo?

citroen c1. Drive these cars before signing is my warning to you.

Sounds ominous-they really that bad? I can imagine it is lacking in power and refinement

the fundamental thing is you get precisely what you pay for. Mrs 2CV has one. She couldn't care less about cars but even she wants something more solid and refined next time. The plus-side it that it has so little by way of complexity that it's very reliable for a French. It's not bad, it's just cheap. If you're coming out of a BMW, regardless of age, it will feel very different to what you're used to. Hence the recommendation for a test drive.

A friend went from an A4 to an Aygo which I think is the same as a C1 and lasted 3 months with it before he took a bath on the lease and bought a 2nd hand 5 Series, and this was a 3 miles each way station car.

[Snollygoster]

Blown2CV said:

what about if two people choose the same one. If it was me I couldn't be arsed with it. It's like getting an assistant in tesco to spend ten minutes helping you pick out the best potato. They're all very similar indeed, and moreover no-one cares...

You can't choose the same one. Yes, if you print a list off twice it might well happen. But this is why dealers won't offer this It's only if some asks, some dealers may do this. But we are talking 5% of the time if that.

I completely agree with you and couldn't care less about a registration, but just saying if the chap wants his 3 Golf R's to be xx15 xxx, xx15 xx+1, xx15 xx+2 he can.

[Calza]

On the look out for a deal on a 20k miles PA lease, 2-4 years considered. Big diesel estate.

Currently have a quote from Tilson at £17.6k for 2 years (6+23 ~600pcm maintained). for an E350 Bluetec AMG Line Premium Plus.

Is this going to be about as good as it gets for a higher mileage lease?

[nw28840]

Any deal out there on an Audi A6 Avant (2.0 TDI or the 3.0TDI Quattro) ?

Friend close to pulling the trigger on one and trying to find him a better deal....

[boroandy87]

Blown2CV said:

Fast Bug said:

Blown2CV said:

they probably don't want each customer spending half an hour with the sales admin scanning through pages and pages of meaningless registrations in the customer's hope of finding a free perceived vanity plate, as the paperwork piles up in the admin's in-tray. They won't find what they are hoping for anyway!

We don't have the time, we do 2000 vehicles a year in the fleet department without throwing retail in to the mix. We have 2 people that register vehicles, and we're not going to hold a reg number for 24 hours. I think we get a choice of 3 from the DVLA system, so like it or lump it that's your reg number. Sometimes they come out in order if we're registering a batch of vehicles, but we're not going to fanny around for ages doing it on purpose

but but but... the customer is always right!!

I hate this, they always take forever to discuss it with relations and or business partners. I'm happy to supply a list of available numbers but always warn that I may end up using it as im not holding any. So decide quickly!

We do about 1000 just through me, no time for messing about.

[Fast Bug]

Blown2CV said:

but but but... the customer is always right!!

To be honest it's only a tiny minority that ask, 95% of what I do is large fleet and they couldn't give a monkeys

[xandir]

thelawnet said:

All ex-VAT/10,000 miles, monthly costs averaged out unless stated:
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Edited by thelawnet on Wednesday 15th October 03:55

Now, that's a great post for the "Best lease car deals available" - Cheers thelawnet

Mike

[Liszt]

Been a few years since I worked on AFRL systems but I recall the dealership has a pool of reg marks allocated to it. When you come to register you can either be show a number from the pool or specicially choose one from the pool.

[Blown2CV]

Liszt said:

Been a few years since I worked on AFRL systems but I recall the dealership has a pool of reg marks allocated to it. When you come to register you can either be show a number from the pool or specicially choose one from the pool.

A pool of equally uninteresting numbers.

[nine6four]

xandir said:

thelawnet said:

All ex-VAT/10,000 miles, monthly costs averaged out unless stated:
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Edited by thelawnet on Wednesday 15th October 03:55

Now, that's a great post for the "Best lease car deals available" - Cheers thelawnet

Mike

Agreed, many thanks