Acura

2010 Acura TSX Lease Rates – February

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logo_acuraMy Take: So my wife wanted me to call Jerry Ede about leasing a 2010 TSX base model again. Certainly not her first choice, but she’s trying to get the best deal right now between all of the cars she wouldn’t mind driving. At first, she didn’t want to drive another Acura because she wanted something different. We are deciding between the Jetta Wolfsburg, Tiguan S, CR-V LX, Toyota Prius and to an extent, the G37. But the G37 payments came out to be a bit higher than she’d like to pay, so it’s pretty much out of the running. I’m not saying it was a bad deal, because it was phenomenal (see more on the G37). The issue was that it was beyond her targetted monthly payment of $370 with tax and little to no drive-off.

At first glance, a TSX with a MSRP $30,120 and a invoice of $28,169 as your sale price, your payments would be around $360 plus tax with all fees due at signing. Now there’s a $500 dealer cash available for all 4-cyl non-tech models, so I would personally shoot for $500 below invoice PLUS maybe 1% of that holdback, or another $300, making it a $800 below invoice price. That would yield payments around $336+tax with all fees due at signing. Looks okay, but I’m not seeing too much of a difference from December since the higher MF is practically eating away at the $500 cash.

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2010 Acura TSX

2010 Acura TSX Base
36-month | 15k miles | residual 59% | .00189 base money factor

2010 Acura TSX with Tech
36-month | 15k miles | residual 56% | .00189 base money factor

2010 Acura TL Lease Rates – February 2010

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logo_acuraMy Take: The residual value for the TL has dropped by 1% since the end of last month. To make matters worse, the money factor got bumped up a significantly as well. However, AHFC is providing $1500-$2000 cash to dealer (non-Tech and Tech) which CAN be used for leasing. When there’s dealer cash like this, you can typically start at Invoice, substract the dealer cash, then tap into some of that holdback (assuming your dealer is VERY eager to lease you one of these). This means that a base TL $35,915 MSRP with an invoice price of $33,483 should cost you no more than $31,983 in most markets. In areas where competition is fierce, you can probably have the dealer share some of the $1077 in holdback. I’d probably ask for around half, making a final sale price somewhere in the $31,500 vicinity. So what does this mean for you? If you get the sale price and opt for the 12k miles per year lease, you should expect your monthly payments to be around $393 per month + tax; with inception fees due at signing (somewhere around $1500). If you can negotiate these numbers (or better), I think you’ll find yourself in a pretty good lease.

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2010 Acura TL

2010 Acura TL 3.5L
24-month | 15k miles | residual 64% | .00204 base money factor
36-month | 15k miles | residual 57% | .00204 base money factor
48-month | 15k miles | residual 49% | .00225 base money factor
60-month | 15k miles | residual 40% | .00275 base money factor

2010 Acura TL 3.5L w/Technology
24-month | 15k miles | residual 61% | .00204 base money factor
36-month | 15k miles | residual 54% | .00204 base money factor
48-month | 15k miles | residual 46% | .00225 base money factor
60-month | 15k miles | residual 38% | .00275 base money factor

2010 Acura TL 3.7L SH-AWD
24-month | 15k miles | residual 61% | .00204 base money factor
36-month | 15k miles | residual 55% | .00204 base money factor
48-month | 15k miles | residual 47% | .00225 base money factor
60-month | 15k miles | residual 39% | .00275 base money factor

Lease rates provided by LeaseCompare.com

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Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year everyone! As you all know, I will be going on vacation tonight and I will not be returning until the weekend of the 16th. This means that there will not be posting any lease rates until I return. I know you will miss having all the information all on one website, but don’t feel bad, you can still find it floating around the web. In any case, remember that the price tags for practically ALL BMWs are going up starting January 1st, so today IS your last day to snap up 2010 models for a lower price tag. The lease cash is still available on all BMWs right now so don’t sleep on this.

Other notable promotions that will also end come January 4th:

  • Lexus December to Remember (No idea what the deal is here)
  • VW (Sign-then-drive, waiving 1st monthly payment)
  • Audi (waiving security deposit)
  • Mazda (Sign-and-drive)
  • Infiniti (Limited Winter Engagement; really attactive lease numbers for the G37. 2010 G37s are coming next month, so the deal could be extended OR become less attractive)
  • Honda (Happy Honda Days; for the most part, the lease rates are pretty good on the more popular models like the Accord)
  • Toyota (Camry is a REALLY good deal right now)
  • Acura (The $1500 and $2000 rebates will probably disappear come January 5th on the TSX V6 with and without Tech).

Now before I head out, there will be some temporary changes that I plan to implement starting today.

  1. New users cannot register in the forums. During my absence, I will be disabling the new user registration approving new users MANUALLY because I’ve been slammed with spammers these past couple weeks and I do not want to come back to a bunch of spammers peddling their viagra, cyalis, ringtones or webcam girls. Since I won’t be able to moderate the forums on a daily basis I felt this was the best option while I am away. New users will be approved upon my return.
  2. Current users will still have access to the forums. This means if you have already registered, you can post as you please.
  3. You may use this blog post as your general Q&A post. Since the blog part of the site handles spam much better than the forums, you may ask your questions here if you like. Just remember that using certain explicit language or hyper linking to other websites will get your comments flag as spam, so it would have to be approved manually.

That is all folks! Enjoy the New Year, hopefully we get some really good lease rates this year (I know I need it because my TSX has about 4 payments left).

See you all when I get back!

G