Quote (Caedus @ Feb 5 2016 06:42pm)

What to the last? 275 a month, with 0% interest (which you're not going to get on a luxury car with a massive length) is $23100 over seven years. Unless it was (several years) used there's no way you got it for 275 a month. A full loaded Q50 is about $55,000 USD. 359 sounds like a bi-weekly lease for a well-equipped by not fully loaded Q50. 275 sounds like what farmer wear rubber boots for.

I have a friend who is dealer principal/general manager for a dealership, and I know quite a few people who work in the industry, you're not getting a $55,000 car for cost. If they give away cars at cost they lose money, sometimes quite a bit. Very rarely a house deal will see a used car go for exactly what was paid for it, but never a new car. I've bought three cars on a killer house deal and I still paid above what they actually paid for the car. This is not the same thing as the dealer invoice that the marketing boys make commercials about to make it seem like you're getting a great deal.

At the $50,000+ that the Q60 is going to be, there's better cars in the segment.

Quote (stupidkid282 @ Feb 5 2016 07:30am)

How is it any less performance oriented than the g35/37?

Quote (AXIS @ Feb 5 2016 11:24pm)

Am I the only one interested in that sweet mod list?
"muffler delete, etc."

Quote (badasses @ Feb 5 2016 10:51pm)

I used to work at mercedes where they give out special leases for their employees for roughly $250-300 for a c class and $300-400 for a e class , it's only for a year but then you can restart the process for when the next model year car comes out.

Then mercedes just takes the car and sells slightly marked down kind of like a demo.

Was one of the nice perks of working there

Quote (Caedus @ Feb 5 2016 10:29pm)

I'm not familiar with Mercedes but VW/Audi/Porsche does that too. Well, not for dealership employees usually but for corporate, national and finance/credit employees. They give one year leases to their employees then sell the cars at dealer lease return auctions. A couple of the really big dealerships do that as well.

I would have assumed those numbers would be higher though because a lease is still paying depreciation no matter who gives it or not. 3600 for a C-Class seems really low for depreciation. I would have thought 400-500 for a C-Class and 500-600 for an E-Class.

Quote (badasses @ Feb 6 2016 02:14am)

yeah the mercedes dealer in canada or at least in bc are all owned by corporate - so their bosses report directly to Germany

it's low for depreciation because it's meant to be a "perk" for the employees

and you can actually have TWO cars under that program so some of my coworkers got one for himself/herself and one for their family