meeno

I'm waiting for my dealer to locate the enthusiast 6MT...we agreed on $28K. I plugged in the numbers at leasecompare.com and found this:

39 month lease, 3315 due at signing, 315/month plus tax (12k mi/year.)

That sounds pretty good right?

Sharif@Forged

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If your credit is excellent, I would put nothing down if you can on a lease. Save your cash and apply it to the payment each month. Are you planning on buying the car at the end of the lease?

meeno

Yes, but that could change...thats why i like the lease

DiRN

Yeah, that's good. I'd go for it.

EnthuZiast

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0 Down a higher payment is a far better plan.
Stretch that $3K+ out as far as possible.

Norel350Z

I put tax and fees down amounted to exactly 3k... i have the same lease, and perfect credit and im paying 389 a month, so your 315 with an extra 300 down makes sence, id def take it... also what was the total cost of the car, that is going to affect the per month price, mine was 28000, i had all mats splash and cargo.. Enthuz was right, def don't put money down if you can avoid it, but because of leasing laws in NY i had to put some cash down. 315 is a great price though, def go for it

DrVolkl

Excellent price...I was paying $340 a month with 1k down on a 2k2 maxima (leased in 02).

The only thing to avoid is any lease that is longer than 3 years. Don't do it...cause you'll be stuck....unless you are positive you're going to buy it at the end of the lease.

I ate poop trying to get out of my lease and into my Z...but that's how it goes sometimes.

Norel350Z

you ate poop.. didn't know that was a dealer lease incentive

ya 3 years is a long time, but sometimes if you are going to stick with the same company they may cut you a deal... My plan is to try to get out of my lease signed 09/03 sometimes around 9/06 if the rumors are true and the 06/07 years have FI or major changes ill have to give up 6 months of a lease

DiRN

That's actually the new NMAC penalty-free early lease termination program.

DrVolkl

Yeah...didn't eveyone do that? It was that or option B, getting bent over.

It was worth it to get into the car tho...haven't missed my maxima yet, and I loved that car.

dchengmd

Not just that, but if you put anything down on a lease you run the risk of losing it all if you total the car before the lease is up. For example, if you put $5000 down on the lease, drive the car off the lot, and crash/total it on the way home, guess what? You just lost $5000. Your insurance will pay the leasing company for the value of the car, but you don't get your $ back.

Put as little money down as possible and as EnthuZiast said, spread out what you were originally going to put down to make the higher payments.