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Just thought I would share my experience with everyone here thinking about leasing this van. I am in the Seattle area:
We had the opportunity today to put down a deposit on a PacHy Platinum that they had enroute. Turned out it had a VIN and they were able to give me numbers.
Don't waste your time trying to lease this van yet. The dealer(s) know ZERO about how it will work, especially with the tax credit. I just wasted 2.5 hours of my day trying to haggle with them and got no where. The numbers just seemed WAY out of wack. They didn't seem confident in what they were showing me just because they don't have any history to go off of for the hybrid.
They gave me 48 months, 0.002 MF, Residual of 50%, MSRP was 49k (I think they marked it up, Platinum with a couple cheap extras, I wasn't too happy about this) After convincing them to hypothetically take $7500 off the MSRP as a "discount" for the tax credit, the monthly payment was still at nearly $650/month with $3K down payment.
Like some have said here already, this will be an extremely expensive lease. I hope others can find better deals. Maybe the dealers around here are just not in the loop yet. If not, maybe wait 6 months and see how the inventories pick up, and once they get all the lease information figured out.
I am really bummed, but happy at the same time that we didn't talk ourselves into this lease. It will be an awesome van I am sure. But if these are the lease numbers...you might as well finance the entire thing.
I think the biggest issue here is Chrysler's website. They had this same exact van starting at a $500/month lease, BEFORE the tax credit is factored in. The website is what got me in the dealerships door. Don't be fooled.
We had the opportunity today to put down a deposit on a PacHy Platinum that they had enroute. Turned out it had a VIN and they were able to give me numbers.
Don't waste your time trying to lease this van yet. The dealer(s) know ZERO about how it will work, especially with the tax credit. I just wasted 2.5 hours of my day trying to haggle with them and got no where. The numbers just seemed WAY out of wack. They didn't seem confident in what they were showing me just because they don't have any history to go off of for the hybrid.
They gave me 48 months, 0.002 MF, Residual of 50%, MSRP was 49k (I think they marked it up, Platinum with a couple cheap extras, I wasn't too happy about this) After convincing them to hypothetically take $7500 off the MSRP as a "discount" for the tax credit, the monthly payment was still at nearly $650/month with $3K down payment.
Like some have said here already, this will be an extremely expensive lease. I hope others can find better deals. Maybe the dealers around here are just not in the loop yet. If not, maybe wait 6 months and see how the inventories pick up, and once they get all the lease information figured out.
I am really bummed, but happy at the same time that we didn't talk ourselves into this lease. It will be an awesome van I am sure. But if these are the lease numbers...you might as well finance the entire thing.
I think the biggest issue here is Chrysler's website. They had this same exact van starting at a $500/month lease, BEFORE the tax credit is factored in. The website is what got me in the dealerships door. Don't be fooled.
