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Originally posted by mbTDI:
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Lease special is looking VERY enticing... anyone have any experience with these?
Wonderful Mazda looks, great handling, so-so performance from the crappy rotary engine plagued with various problems. Get a 350Z instead. 
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Originally posted by Big_B:
the version with the push button shifting on the steering wheel, no clutch. I was not impressed at all.
FWIW, the manual version also has an extra 39hp over the auto (238 MT, 197 for the AT)
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Originally posted by cjbaldw:
Originally posted by mbTDI:
opinions??
Lease special is looking VERY enticing... anyone have any experience with these?
Wonderful Mazda looks, great handling, so-so performance from the crappy rotary engine plagued with various problems. Get a 350Z instead.
i'm only looking at the rx-8 b/c lease specials currently make it VERY cheap
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Originally posted by mbTDI:
Originally posted by cjbaldw:
Originally posted by mbTDI:
opinions??
Lease special is looking VERY enticing... anyone have any experience with these?
Wonderful Mazda looks, great handling, so-so performance from the crappy rotary engine plagued with various problems. Get a 350Z instead.
i'm only looking at the rx-8 b/c lease specials currently make it VERY cheap
Are you considering how much the down payment is?
I know you said before that rebates and S-Plan pricing would offset the down payment, but I don't believe that it does.
I believe that $299 price assumes that you're already buying at Invoice (which is roughly S-Plan) or at least something close to it and that you take the MAC cash. Graduate Rebate actually went away this month as well but may come back next month as it often does. So you can't get that $500 either.
Now you don't have to put the $2600 down you can roll it into the monthly payment, but then it'll be more than $299, it'll actually be $425 or so.
Plus there's TTL, which depending on the state, is another roughly $2,000. You have to either put that down as well, or again, roll it into the note. So, in the end, that low monthly payment isn't so low.
Even if you were able to shave $2,000 off the down payment by negotiating you'd still have either pay $2600 down or roll it into the note, making the price not so cheap anymore.
You also are only getting a base RX-8 at that price. And that may be fine with you. It's certainly not lacking in performance at that package level; and is actually faster without the added weight of options. But you don't Leather, HIDs, Fogs, Moonroof, Heated Mirrors, Power Seats, Bose, and perhaps most importantly DSC or TC. The RX-8 can be extremely squirelly in the rain without DSC.
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Originally posted by mbTDI:
Originally posted by cjbaldw:
Originally posted by mbTDI:
opinions??
Lease special is looking VERY enticing... anyone have any experience with these?
Wonderful Mazda looks, great handling, so-so performance from the crappy rotary engine plagued with various problems. Get a 350Z instead.
i'm only looking at the rx-8 b/c lease specials currently make it VERY cheap
The payment is relatively cheap at 299/month but that's with 2599 down AFTER 2000 cash back. The best lease deals are always the zero down lease deals. As a general rule I never put money down on a lease, it's not like I'm buying myself equity or anything if I do and then if I ever need to transfer the lease agreement I'm out the cash amount I originally put down. If you go zero down and need to ditch the car, all you have to do is find someone to take over the payment and you're done with no lost cash out of pocket.
I bet you can lease a 350Z for the same payment or less if you put down 2600 dollars as well. Take a closer look at the deals out there...
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Originally posted by sigma:
Are you considering how much the down payment is?
Yep... figured that all out today and it doesn't look like i'm doing it. It didn't help that the salesman was a dumbs**t and everytime I asked about the lease would respond with info about a sale... he quoted me MSRP of $34500 and told me that "s-plan may get me another hundred or so dollars off" and he'd be happy to work up the payment based on that amount... i hope he was kidding 
Oh well... guess I'm dieseling for a while longer!
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