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Posted by J L N [Email] (more from J L N) on Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:36:57 Share Post by Email
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Well, I trotted on down to my local dealer at lunch today to check out the 9-5 fire sale. I fully expected to walk away with nothing (and still have nothing to this point) mostly because I have a '99 9-3 SE in excellent condition I'm leasing that still has one year and 10 months left on it. By my projections, my 9-3 with be sporting nearly 26,000 more miles than the 60,000 my lease allows for, so my hope was that the dealer might be desperate enough to unload 9-5s to make it worth my while to not wait and pay the roughly $4,000 in over mileage charges (assuming it is still in great condition at that point) I'm likely to incur otherwise.

Anyway, I doubt this is a stellar deal but I'm curious enough to ask for opinions. They have quite a few program cars with roughly 2,000 miles on them, and all have the luxury package items, H-K stereo, heated seats, etc. All have the 2.3L base engine and one of them is a wagon. The offer he made for any one of them is as follows: Three year lease @ 15,000 miles per year, $2,000 down, at $560 per month. The reason that seems so high compared to the deals on saabusa.com web site is that the $5,000 incentive (plus another $500 for lease loyalty) they are offering to make the standard lease look so good would be going against the my buyout for various factors that go with evacuating a lease early and being over on projected mileage, or at least that is what I'm being told. I'm also trying to quantify the factors of starting off with a fresh warranty, the no-charge maintenance thing, and the fact that the 9-5 just plain costs more than a 9-3.

Sorry that was so long winded. Anyone with any comments? Is this a boondoggle? Thanks in advance.

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