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The ads on tv now have $2200 down and $299/month for 36 month lease.
How long has this been going on? Maybe I should have checked last
November when I went for the new Accord EX4, but the last time I
checked the TSX was going for more like $350/month.

And I still prefer using regular-grade gas, but otherwise the TSX is
more what I'd like to drive. Ah well, it's never a bad thing to save
even a little money, I guess.

J.

"JXStern" <JXSternChangeX2R@gte.net> wrote in message
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> The ads on tv now have $2200 down and $299/month for 36 month lease.
> How long has this been going on? Maybe I should have checked last
> November when I went for the new Accord EX4, but the last time I
> checked the TSX was going for more like $350/month.
>
> And I still prefer using regular-grade gas, but otherwise the TSX is
> more what I'd like to drive. Ah well, it's never a bad thing to save
> even a little money, I guess.
>
> J.
>

The lease has been advertised for some time now locally but it limited to
10,000 miles per year.

Waiving the right to remain silent, JXStern <JXSternChangeX2R@gte.net> said:

> The ads on tv now have $2200 down and $299/month for 36 month lease.
> How long has this been going on? Maybe I should have checked last
> November when I went for the new Accord EX4, but the last time I
> checked the TSX was going for more like $350/month.

Perhaps that was with no down payment (Which is stupid, when leasing.)

Do the math and divide $2200 by 36, add the result to $299, and you've got
about the same cost per month, except you're paying part of it in advance.
(That's the stupid bit...)

I've leased plenty of cars, and never used my cash to do it. I tell them to
recalculate the lease with no Capital Cost Reduction, AND I negrotiate the
price of the car BEFORE the lease calculations.

They just love basing a lease on the full retail price...

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"A lack of common sense is now considered a disability,
with all the privileges that this entails."

On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 13:11:54 -0500, "tww1491" <twaugh5@cox.net> wrote:

>"JXStern" <JXSternChangeX2R@gte.net> wrote in message
>news:h981u2hg44piaa2d5misefknkneeti3pv7@4ax.com.. .
>> The ads on tv now have $2200 down and $299/month for 36 month lease.
>> How long has this been going on? Maybe I should have checked last
>> November when I went for the new Accord EX4, but the last time I
>> checked the TSX was going for more like $350/month.
>>
>> And I still prefer using regular-grade gas, but otherwise the TSX is
>> more what I'd like to drive. Ah well, it's never a bad thing to save
>> even a little money, I guess.
>
>The lease has been advertised for some time now locally but it limited to
>10,000 miles per year.

Aha, didn't see that, equates to about another $20/month (add 2000
more miles, divide by 12 = 80/month, @ 25c/mile). So, at $320/month,
compared to the Accord EX4 $270/month, ... that's about right.

That's a cloth Accord versus a leather TSX, too, what's the leather
option, $1700, that's about $40/month right there! Few hundred bux
cheaper driveoff for the Accord, too.

Thanks.

J.

"JXStern" <JXSternChangeX2R@gte.net> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 13:11:54 -0500, "tww1491" <twaugh5@cox.net> wrote:
>
>>"JXStern" <JXSternChangeX2R@gte.net> wrote in message
>>news:h981u2hg44piaa2d5misefknkneeti3pv7@4ax.com. ..
>>> The ads on tv now have $2200 down and $299/month for 36 month lease.
>>> How long has this been going on? Maybe I should have checked last
>>> November when I went for the new Accord EX4, but the last time I
>>> checked the TSX was going for more like $350/month.
>>>
>>> And I still prefer using regular-grade gas, but otherwise the TSX is
>>> more what I'd like to drive. Ah well, it's never a bad thing to save
>>> even a little money, I guess.
>>
>>The lease has been advertised for some time now locally but it limited to
>>10,000 miles per year.
>
> Aha, didn't see that, equates to about another $20/month (add 2000
> more miles, divide by 12 = 80/month, @ 25c/mile). So, at $320/month,
> compared to the Accord EX4 $270/month, ... that's about right.
>
> That's a cloth Accord versus a leather TSX, too, what's the leather
> option, $1700, that's about $40/month right there! Few hundred bux
> cheaper driveoff for the Accord, too.
>
> Thanks.
>
> J.

The TSX also takes premium and, given our local Acura dealer, more expensive
to maintain. But, then it is a"prestige" automobile.
>