Best Lease Car Deals Available? (Vol 5)

[NickGibbs]

NickGibbs said:

Not a bad deal on an Abarth Spider


£298.51 incl VAT monthly rental
£2686.59 incl VAT initial rental
This vehicle is in stock
Personal contract hire
Contract term: 24 months
Rental profile: 9 + 23
Annual mileage: 10000
1.4 litre Petrol Manual

https://www.vertuleasecars.co.uk/personal-lease-ca...

Marks down for a £300 processing fee and for the Vertu leasing site being one of the very worst I've tried to search on. Almost impossible

[PenelopaPitstop]

NickGibbs said:

Not a bad deal on an Abarth Spider


£298.51 incl VAT monthly rental
£2686.59 incl VAT initial rental
This vehicle is in stock
Personal contract hire
Contract term: 24 months
Rental profile: 9 + 23
Annual mileage: 10000
1.4 litre Petrol Manual

https://www.vertuleasecars.co.uk/personal-lease-ca...

Bad deal at £9552.32!

£5,973.71 total for manual or £6,002.71 total for automatic:
https://www.contracthireandleasing.com/independent...

https://www.contracthireandleasing.com/independent...

Some other companies and dealers also offer them. Check Abarth dealers websites.

[EyeHeartSpellin]

adaM3 said:

EyeHeartSpellin said:

All, despite the relentless need of people on the internet to turn even car leasing in to a dick waving contest/CV review/G8 Summit - can I say thanks a lot for this thread.

I have got my order in of the S6 Black Edition all confirmed. Love my current A6 Black Edition except for power and traction so that should sort it! Cheers for all the tips and jargon busting.

Could you tell me who you ordered this through? I tried various people yesterday and eventually I callled Audi who said they are no longer accepting orders for the S6 due to the new A6 coming out.

Hi mate, I went with CVL (https://centralukvehicleleasing.co.uk/). I put the form through last week, sorry if the above gave the impression it was yesterday.

[NickGibbs]

PenelopaPitstop said:

Bad deal at £9552.32!

£5,973.71 total for manual or £6,002.71 total for automatic:
https://www.contracthireandleasing.com/independent...

https://www.contracthireandleasing.com/independent...

Some other companies and dealers also offer them. Check Abarth dealers websites.

Good spot! That is tempting

[culpz]

PenelopaPitstop said:

NickGibbs said:

Not a bad deal on an Abarth Spider


£298.51 incl VAT monthly rental
£2686.59 incl VAT initial rental
This vehicle is in stock
Personal contract hire
Contract term: 24 months
Rental profile: 9 + 23
Annual mileage: 10000
1.4 litre Petrol Manual

https://www.vertuleasecars.co.uk/personal-lease-ca...

Bad deal at £9552.32!

£5,973.71 total for manual or £6,002.71 total for automatic:
https://www.contracthireandleasing.com/independent...

https://www.contracthireandleasing.com/independent...

Some other companies and dealers also offer them. Check Abarth dealers websites.

Parker's have been showing these for a while:

https://www.parkers.co.uk/abarth/124-spider/car-le...

Very good deals but these have been on there for a while and i'm not sure if they're still available. They're stock so i assume they are.

[FastWilly]

The Mrs's XF 2.0d just been picked up by Manaheim, two smallish scrapes and an alloy to be repaired. £80 to refinish each scrape and £60 for the alloy.
Cheaper than getting them done ourselves.

[PenelopaPitstop]

NickGibbs said:

Good spot! That is tempting

I looked at them last week and checked some offers and reviews. Might be worth checking availability, there was more offers last week.

[Motorunion]

Fast Bug said:

Large fleet dealers don't just do leasing, they do pure end user fleet business and have a pretty good idea of what they sell most of so will pre order vehicles. If you do lots of taxi/chauffeur business you'll order hundreds of Obsidian Black E220d SE saloon/estates at a time, you'll order Obsidian Black S350d lwb in lumps of thirty-fifty at a time. Mid spec C Class will be ordered by the hundred in various colours with and without premium/premium plus packs, same with A Class as they're your bread and butter. They'll also be taken by rental companies in batches, usually they'll want something quickly. C Class saloon is made in South Africa and takes an age to ship, so you'll constantly be topping up your pipeline stock of those.

Also the last couple of places I've worked at will look at current stock levels and approach the manufacturer and one of the leasing companies they supply to and see look we've got X amount of Y in stock. What support is needed/can be given for a batch deal. If everyone agrees then the deal is put out to market. In most cases the leasing company will agree that the dealer will register all of the vehicles before a set date (usually end of the quarter) if they've been sold or not. 9 times out of 10 all of the cars will be sold, on occasion they won't much like the Mini deal Arval did, they've still got some of those in stock too!

I appreciate that you may have run a dealership, but big fleet can work differently. I for one would hate to be in charge of a big fleet department as they have to forecast (guess!) what will be needed months in advance. My last place got caught a little bit with their pants down with the shift from diesel to petrol happened so quickly. We had lots of diesel A Class in stock, and virtually overnight people wanted petrol. Lots of vehicles on stocking plans can get expensive really quickly if you get it wrong. The likes of Lookers and Sytner Group will have thousand of cars both physical and in pipeline stock as lots of people won't wait. New starter company cars are often the most impatient people around

I vote for a daily piece from Fastbug on the workings of the leasing, to help us through the lean months.

[-C-]

I'm looking for a new lease, currently own an E91 320d M Sport touring but it's manual and my annual mileage has gone through the roof with commuting. It's 60 miles each way but thankfully an hour on average, so manageable.

Mileage allowance needs to be 36k and something big, auto, diesel and economical.

I'm using my car allowance so don't want to spank too much money. The best deal I have found so far is:

Skoda Superb Sportline DSG estate. Met grey or silver, otherwise standard.

2.4k down 35 x 405.

It's in budget, spec looks fine and it seems cheap, given the issue I have with mileage.

I'm struggling to better it in reality, unless anyone has any ideas

[Gareth1974]

-C- said:

I'm looking for a new lease, currently own an E91 320d M Sport touring but it's manual and my annual mileage has gone through the roof with commuting. It's 60 miles each way but thankfully an hour on average, so manageable.

Mileage allowance needs to be 36k and something big, auto, diesel and economical.

I'm using my car allowance so don't want to spank too much money. The best deal I have found so far is:

Skoda Superb Sportline DSG estate. Met grey or silver, otherwise standard.

2.4k down 35 x 405.

It's in budget, spec looks fine and it seems cheap, given the issue I have with mileage.

I'm struggling to better it in reality, unless anyone has any ideas

A Golf GTD DSG or a Volvo S90 Momentum auto are the only other things I can see at that mileage for £400 on a 6+36.

[2003bluecat]

PenelopaPitstop said:

I looked at them last week and checked some offers and reviews. Might be worth checking availability, there was more offers last week.

We went to look at a couple on Monday.

The exhaust sound is amazing, for a 1.4 it's bark is definitely worse than it's bite. I think they look better in the standard metallic black too which is the no cost colour.

A lot of car for the money and very nice inside.

Just not sure SWMBO is that keen unfortunately. Especially with the decent* deals on the 595, 208 GTI by Peugeot Sport and Polo GTI at the moment - I think a more sensible car may win out.

• By decent I mean cheaper than the Abarth 124

[DJM7691]

-C- said:

I'm looking for a new lease, currently own an E91 320d M Sport touring but it's manual and my annual mileage has gone through the roof with commuting. It's 60 miles each way but thankfully an hour on average, so manageable.

Mileage allowance needs to be 36k and something big, auto, diesel and economical.

I'm using my car allowance so don't want to spank too much money. The best deal I have found so far is:

Skoda Superb Sportline DSG estate. Met grey or silver, otherwise standard.

2.4k down 35 x 405.

It's in budget, spec looks fine and it seems cheap, given the issue I have with mileage.

I'm struggling to better it in reality, unless anyone has any ideas

It seems like a lot of money, but then again at the mileage you're doing it's probably still not a bad option. If you go and buy a nearly new, you willd estroy the value of it anyway. If you buy 5-7 years old, you'll destory what value is left, but also could be forking out a huge amount as bits start needing replacing, so at least this way its hassle free and consistent. Is ther anyway to increase Warranty to 100k miles?

[tigger1]

2003bluecat said:

Especially with the decent* deals on the 595, 208 GTI by Peugeot Sport and Polo GTI at the moment - I think a more sensible car may win out.

• By decent I mean cheaper than the Abarth 124

How decent were the 208 gti deals? (what was the deal?)

-C- said:

Mileage allowance needs to be 36k and something big, auto, diesel and economical.

The best deal I have found so far is:

Skoda Superb Sportline DSG estate. Met grey or silver, otherwise standard.

2.4k down 35 x 405.

I'm struggling to better it in reality, unless anyone has any ideas

For almost 17k over 3 years, that seems expensive.

What if your circumstances change - will you definitely be doing 36kmiles/year for the next three years? Equally, you could take a lower mileage lease and pay the excess - BUT excess miles can get very expensive, they're sometimes limited to a certain number of miles and then quite punitive.

I'd definitely consider buying. A 20k loan over 3 years from a bank might cost you 1k in interest (3.3% over 3 years), but must get you near to the purchase price of a new/ lightly used octavia / superb estate (23/26k respectively new?). Admittedly, selling it becomes your problem, but you can do what you like with it in the meantime as it's your car.

[ryebread]

-C- said:

I'm looking for a new lease, currently own an E91 320d M Sport touring but it's manual and my annual mileage has gone through the roof with commuting. It's 60 miles each way but thankfully an hour on average, so manageable.

Mileage allowance needs to be 36k and something big, auto, diesel and economical.

I'm using my car allowance so don't want to spank too much money. The best deal I have found so far is:

Skoda Superb Sportline DSG estate. Met grey or silver, otherwise standard.

2.4k down 35 x 405.

It's in budget, spec looks fine and it seems cheap, given the issue I have with mileage.

I'm struggling to better it in reality, unless anyone has any ideas

Have you thought about Electric? At those miles you're spending about £250 a month on fuel plus a lot on maintenance (service, oil, brakes etc).

An i3 range extender is £500 a month on similar terms, not a great deal either but probably works out cheaper than the Octavia and it's a very nice car. It's what I did when I had a similar commute

[tigger1]

Motorunion said:

I vote for a daily piece from Fastbug on the workings of the leasing, to help us through the lean months.

I vote he uses his industry weight (and that time) to get some good deals sorted for us instead.

[ilikejam]

tigger1 said:

-C- said:

Mileage allowance needs to be 36k and something big, auto, diesel and economical.

The best deal I have found so far is:

Skoda Superb Sportline DSG estate. Met grey or silver, otherwise standard.

2.4k down 35 x 405.

I'm struggling to better it in reality, unless anyone has any ideas

For almost 17k over 3 years, that seems expensive.

What if your circumstances change - will you definitely be doing 36kmiles/year for the next three years? Equally, you could take a lower mileage lease and pay the excess - BUT excess miles can get very expensive, they're sometimes limited to a certain number of miles and then quite punitive.

I'd definitely consider buying. A 20k loan over 3 years from a bank might cost you 1k in interest (3.3% over 3 years), but must get you near to the purchase price of a new/ lightly used octavia / superb estate (23/26k respectively new?). Admittedly, selling it becomes your problem, but you can do what you like with it in the meantime as it's your car.

Good advice. 67 plate Sportlines with less than 5k on the clock are listed under £20k on Autotrader right now. A bit of haggling and a 3 year bank loan might cost you £19k over 3 years - but you'd have something to sell that I'd wager would be worth more than £2000, making it cheaper overall. Plus no worries about mileage.

[ryebread]

PenelopaPitstop said:

Bad deal at £9552.32!

£5,973.71 total for manual or £6,002.71 total for automatic:
https://www.contracthireandleasing.com/independent...

https://www.contracthireandleasing.com/independent...

Some other companies and dealers also offer them. Check Abarth dealers websites.

Plus £300 admin fee, still works out about 21.9% so decent. Alternativley you can save £1500 over the 2 years if you go for the ordinary non-Abarth 124 if that fits anyone's fancy. Slightly less better value and obviously doesn't look or sound an nice but performance still isn't far off. Could make a nice cheap second fun car for some

[2003bluecat]

tigger1 said:

2003bluecat said:

Especially with the decent* deals on the 595, 208 GTI by Peugeot Sport and Polo GTI at the moment - I think a more sensible car may win out.

• By decent I mean cheaper than the Abarth 124

How decent were the 208 gti deals? (what was the deal?)

£227.17 on a 3+35, 8k miles and £198 fee all inc vat. Not the cheapest, but cheaper than I could actually find the 124 for, within our budget and ticks all the boxes of what we (SWMBO) are looking for.

We need to have a look at new/nearly new prices though cause the rate they are losing value (£10k off list in 2 years with 10k miles) suggests there could be deals to be had, especially on nearly new.

But my heart really thinks a 595 or 124 will be so much more fun.

[Greendubber]

2003bluecat said:

tigger1 said:

2003bluecat said:

Especially with the decent* deals on the 595, 208 GTI by Peugeot Sport and Polo GTI at the moment - I think a more sensible car may win out.

• By decent I mean cheaper than the Abarth 124

How decent were the 208 gti deals? (what was the deal?)

£227.17 on a 3+35, 8k miles and £198 fee all inc vat. Not the cheapest, but cheaper than I could actually find the 124 for, within our budget and ticks all the boxes of what we (SWMBO) are looking for.

We need to have a look at new/nearly new prices though cause the rate they are losing value (£10k off list in 2 years with 10k miles) suggests there could be deals to be had, especially on nearly new.

But my heart really thinks a 595 or 124 will be so much more fun.

Just had a quote from Stoneacre for a 595 Comp. It was £753 down and £251 per month on a 3 year lease with 12k p/a miles.

Seemed decent enough.

[g40steve]

Greendubber said:

2003bluecat said:

tigger1 said:

2003bluecat said:

Especially with the decent* deals on the 595, 208 GTI by Peugeot Sport and Polo GTI at the moment - I think a more sensible car may win out.

• By decent I mean cheaper than the Abarth 124

How decent were the 208 gti deals? (what was the deal?)

£227.17 on a 3+35, 8k miles and £198 fee all inc vat. Not the cheapest, but cheaper than I could actually find the 124 for, within our budget and ticks all the boxes of what we (SWMBO) are looking for.

We need to have a look at new/nearly new prices though cause the rate they are losing value (£10k off list in 2 years with 10k miles) suggests there could be deals to be had, especially on nearly new.

But my heart really thinks a 595 or 124 will be so much more fun.

Just had a quote from Stoneacre for a 595 Comp. It was £753 down and £251 per month on a 3 year lease with 12k p/a miles.

Seemed decent enough.

My 208 GTI By Peugeotsport ends in July looking for another if possible?
The deal I have was crazy cheap £799 down 23 X£133 those days are long gone!