Best Lease Car Deals Available? (Vol 9)

[AMG_V12]

Nickbrapp said:

Never seen this before, I thought you had no option to buy the car at the end!

Some companies offer option to buy. Out of interest what car is it and have you been given a price?

[Jay_P]

Nickbrapp said:

Never seen this before, I thought you had no option to buy the car at the end!

You could make a tidy WBAC profit if the price being offered is right!

[tazgalsinh]

Jay_P said:

Nickbrapp said:

Never seen this before, I thought you had no option to buy the car at the end!

You could make a tidy WBAC profit if the price being offered is right!

We purchased the wives Karoq in May. Managed to knock £500 from the price by haggling on the phone. It's now worth £4.5k more on wbac.

[stressfree]

Busssie said:

so are you saying that even though it states its the 2021 model you will receive the 2022 face lifted model? is this guaranteed by the broker or are they just saying you will get the face lift model when in reality the 2021 dinosaur out of date model will show up on delivery day?

btw who uses car satnav it has apple car play so waze and google will work!!

No guarantees, but you might get the facelift model, depending on when the car will be built. Look at it as a nice bonus. Happened to me when I ordered Leon Cupra 4 years ago, came with the updated spec to what I ordered. To be honest, face lift is mostly cosmetic: led lights inside, different headlights design, might be a new colour, have a look on toyotablog for more details.
Had to use satnav, when trying to get home and phone has no reception.
I just handed the 2wd Design back and over 2 years and 18k miles, it averaged 46mpg calculated. Have to wait for the Excel until February.

[stressfree]

Depends on the lender. PSA and VW offered to buy the car at the end. ZEN Auto said not possible, but gave me the name of the auction house collecting the car. Called them up and they said of course you can buy 2 year old RAV4 Design in pristine condition, for £27000. I handed it back, as brand new from the broker is £28000.

[Jaykay_]

stressfree said:

No guarantees, but you might get the facelift model, depending on when the car will be built. Look at it as a nice bonus. Happened to me when I ordered Leon Cupra 4 years ago, came with the updated spec to what I ordered. To be honest, face lift is mostly cosmetic: led lights inside, different headlights design, might be a new colour, have a look on toyotablog for more details.
Had to use satnav, when trying to get home and phone has no reception.
I just handed the 2wd Design back and over 2 years and 18k miles, it averaged 46mpg calculated. Have to wait for the Excel until February.

What was your experience with the cvt gearbox?

[carl0]

Ursicles said:

Ursicles said:

Been offered the Hyundai Santa Fe

36 months
10k per annum
Metallic paint included

£1,094 down, £364 a month

Seems decent to me as list price is £41,225 and 2 yr % is 23.8%

Thoughts?

EDIT: Only free colour is brown, anything else pushes it over £40k for tax man and price rises by £50 a month! Sod driving a brown car for 3 yrs.

Edited by Ursicles on Thursday 7th October 14:36

Have ordered it - figure I can live with the brown!

Metallic paint as an option even though it's free the tax man looks at the list price and it goes over the £40k mark.

Speak to Mike Linehan at Stoneacre. I found them through leasing.com.

What's the lead time on Santa Fe ?

[Ursicles]

Paper work went in last night, finance approved this morning and the confirmation note says Jan / Feb, but potentially sooner.

Seems like the semi-conductor crisis is lessening as apparently Samsung have done a deal with some of the far east car companies to supply them.

[stressfree]

Jaykay_ said:

What was your experience with the cvt gearbox?

Took me a week to adjust after the DSG, but cannot say anything bad about it. Yes, it is noisy when you are pushing the car, but then every other car I had is, in the similar condition. It is much better in traffic and getting away from the lights, then DSG: very smooth and easy to control power delivery. You need a test drive, if not driven one before.

[skinnyman]

Considering selling my Golf GTI due to ridiculous 2nd hand prices, and was struggling with what to replace it with, so I had a look at the electric lease cars available at work via salary sacrifice, they have the following available:

Mini electric level 2
iD3 Pro Life
Mokka elite nav premium
Peugeot e208 GT

All are roughly £300/mth, that includes insurance, maintenance, tyres, services etc, the whole shebang, as well as no deposit. In the current climate, what are peoples thoughts on these offers? I'd save £100/mth in petrol vs electric, plus all the other associated cost I'm currently paying.

There's other cars available, but then the prices climb, Lexus US 300e for £350, VW iD4 for £370 etc etc.

[ToastMan76]

Busssie said:

or how about this from the same company

https://www.expresscarleasing.co.uk/car-leasing/to...

totyota rav 4

36 months £292pm
initial payment £878
10000 miles pa

again to the untrained eye this seems decent so what am i missing with this? is it a low spec version?

All advice welcome

Icon is the base spec mind. Weve just leased through Zen £2.1k 335pm 36mnths 10k miles pa for a Rav4 Black Edition which imo looks so much smarter and better specced.

[worsy]

skinnyman said:

Considering selling my Golf GTI due to ridiculous 2nd hand prices, and was struggling with what to replace it with, so I had a look at the electric lease cars available at work via salary sacrifice, they have the following available:

Mini electric level 2
iD3 Pro Life
Mokka elite nav premium
Peugeot e208 GT

All are roughly £300/mth, that includes insurance, maintenance, tyres, services etc, the whole shebang, as well as no deposit. In the current climate, what are peoples thoughts on these offers? I'd save £100/mth in petrol vs electric, plus all the other associated cost I'm currently paying.

There's other cars available, but then the prices climb, Lexus US 300e for £350, VW iD4 for £370 etc etc.

Plus the Tax and NI saving don't forget.

[JQ]

skinnyman said:

Considering selling my Golf GTI due to ridiculous 2nd hand prices, and was struggling with what to replace it with, so I had a look at the electric lease cars available at work via salary sacrifice, they have the following available:

Mini electric level 2
iD3 Pro Life
Mokka elite nav premium
Peugeot e208 GT

All are roughly £300/mth, that includes insurance, maintenance, tyres, services etc, the whole shebang, as well as no deposit. In the current climate, what are peoples thoughts on these offers? I'd save £100/mth in petrol vs electric, plus all the other associated cost I'm currently paying.

There's other cars available, but then the prices climb, Lexus US 300e for £350, VW iD4 for £370 etc etc.

Bear in mind the £300pcm is not the full cost of salary sacrifice. You need to work out the impact on your pension of the reduction to your gross salary, it's more than you might imagine. I'm sure there's been a few threads on here about it.

For reference my wife can get salary sacrifice and £300pcm is an Audi E-Tron, £330 is an Audi Q4 and £305 pcm is a Mercedes EQA. A Mini Level 1 is £229pcm.

You can privately lease a VW e-up for £197pcm with no deposit.

[Catflap2]

ToastMan76 said:

Icon is the base spec mind. Weve just leased through Zen £2.1k 335pm 36mnths 10k miles pa for a Rav4 Black Edition which imo looks so much smarter and better specced.

Interestingly the Black Edition was removed from the Toyota Configurator about a week ago. So guess there is no MY22 Black Edition.
Did look nice (assuming you like black) but the Dynamic is similar with gloss black plastic bits and a few more colours. However the Excel has the best kit and what I was considering.

[skinnyman]

JQ said:

Bear in mind the £300pcm is not the full cost of salary sacrifice. You need to work out the impact on your pension of the reduction to your gross salary, it's more than you might imagine. I'm sure there's been a few threads on here about it.

For reference my wife can get salary sacrifice and £300pcm is an Audi E-Tron, £330 is an Audi Q4 and £305 pcm is a Mercedes EQA. A Mini Level 1 is £229pcm.

You can privately lease a VW e-up for £197pcm with no deposit.

The prices above are with tax & NI contributions taken into account, so £300/mth is the total cost to me. Won't affect pension as I'm on a defined contribution scheme, which is calculated pre any salary reductions schemes, such as cycle to work, childcare vouchers etc.

The savings would be higher if I were a 40% tax payer, but I make additional pension contributions to keep myself below the 40% threshold, but even as a 40%er the Audi Q4 E-Tron is still £370/mth, so those prices you've mentioned seemed very good, wish I could get them via my employer

[FamousPheasant]

My Volvo V90 got picked up last week. The funder was ALD and it's interesting to see it's gone straight to Arnold Clark and now up for 28,300 - it didn't touch the auctions. I was paying 293 on a 1+23 and a new one would cost 33,500ish. The 7K I paid over the term looks a pretty good deal to me on those terms. Was only charged for 2 wheel refurbs at 100GBP which I thought was very reasonable - I was expecting more.

That's my last lease for now. Had three great deals (Audi A4, Giulia Veloce and the V90) through this thread but the deals are far less appealing now. Looks like I will be smoking about in my 12 year old XFR for a while yet.

[jollysoutherner]

JQ said:

Bear in mind the £300pcm is not the full cost of salary sacrifice. You need to work out the impact on your pension of the reduction to your gross salary, it's more than you might imagine. I'm sure there's been a few threads on here about it.

For reference my wife can get salary sacrifice and £300pcm is an Audi E-Tron, £330 is an Audi Q4 and £305 pcm is a Mercedes EQA. A Mini Level 1 is £229pcm.

You can privately lease a VW e-up for £197pcm with no deposit.

Have you got any details for the VW e-up?

[Greendubber]

Ursicles said:

Paper work went in last night, finance approved this morning and the confirmation note says Jan / Feb, but potentially sooner.

Seems like the semi-conductor crisis is lessening as apparently Samsung have done a deal with some of the far east car companies to supply them.

Hyundai make them so they're alright, can't sell cars fast enough apparently!

[Rscut]

Anyone else receive the absolutely ridiculous offer on the X4 from CUKVL? £417.59 for 10k (23 pavements) and 12k initial rental! A barrage monthly cost is £900!

[Lambo89]

Rscut said:

Anyone else receive the absolutely ridiculous offer on the X4 from CUKVL? £417.59 for 10k (23 pavements) and 12k initial rental! A barrage monthly cost is £900!

Yep! Insane!