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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
NFH is wrong; you are right. I've discussed this with salesmen, and the BMW residual calculation is simply a percentage of the MSRP of the car you lease, as equipped. They don't have an accelerated depreciation schedule for options or anything like that.
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Really? From what I understand about residuals and option prices/effects on residual, they must really be taking a bath on that. There's no way a $50k MSRP Z4 is really worth 25% more than the base 3.0 $40k Z4 after three years of lease. I guess they make it up for it on the high margins on options, anyway. I think nav costs the dealers like $1k or so, where the MSRP is $1800.
I'll have to talk to my dealer. The Z4 residuals seem very good, and if I could get a Z4 3.0 lease with nav, HID and the premium packages to around $500/month (which is where is appears that it should be, since that's about $48k MSRP and the math comes out to about that if they give you the same kind of lease packages that you can get on the Z4 2.5 automatic), it would be hard to pass up.
I'm driving the SMG Z4 3.0 and M3 this weekend, so I'll let the group know my thoughts.
As to the hardtop, news reports and the message boards suggest it was to be available as a factory option on 2004 Z4s, but I can't find anything on the BMW site. The aftermarket options are kind of hit or miss, it seems.
