From a 96 Corolla to a 04 Acura RSX to a Lexus to a BMW and now at 27 i leased 2 new 2012 c-250 coupe sport and a E-350 sedan sport and couldnt be any happier! (and no my parents never bought me any of these cars... hard work pays off!!!)

 

Welcome, congratulations, well-done.....and yes, hard work does pay off, as you will again find keeping two black cars looking clean!

 

thank you very much!
very true! keeping 2 black cars clean is hard, but when you buy 2 cars at the same time, negotiating wanting free car wash every 2 weeks at the dealership is always a plus!!! Especially when the dealership is across the street from my office.

 

getting free car washes was the easy part at my dealership.
I bought a 2012 C350 coupe and a 2012 ML 350 at my dealership...they love me there!

 

Whats this about free car washes, I have bought 4 Mercedes every 2 years from the same sales guy and never get free car washes... Conversely, they take $7,000 off the sticker of a new coupe (got 2) and lease them for 24 months, paying $299 each (including maintenance) with $2,500 total out of pocket for $45,000 sticker coupes... Can't complain.

At least I have a younger brother who is money hungry, get a nice car wash for $5 tip... Haha.

 

@jctevere $299 a month!? lease payments...

 

Haha, yeah, I paid $2,500 out of pocket at signing (includes taxes and all fees and first month) and pay $299 a month (including maintenance). However, these are certainly not typical lease payments. It is a combination of a short 24 month lease, which at the time had an OUTSTANDING residual (so you only pay off a slight amount of depreciation), as the new coupes were projected to have a high residual value at the end of the lease. Its also 12,000 miles per year.

Ultimately, I also had the car discounted $7,000 from MSRP ($1,000 in Mercedes loyalty, $1,500 in J.P. Morgan Chase discount (1 per year), and another $4,500 in straight discount from the dealer due to being a great customer (leased two that day, and refer tons of business to him, even better, they wrote one up in December 2011 and the other up in Jan 2012, so I was able to use the J.P. Morgan discount twice!).

Whats scary to think is that he said he still made "some" money on the deal - goes to show you how much the car is marked up!

To put things in perspective, I got a ~$44,000 MSRP C250 Coupe for about the same you would pay to lease a middle of the road nissan altima...

@ OP - Hard work definitely does pay off. I started when I was 11 and saved everything I made. So my first car was a 2008 G37 coupe (got the first one at the dealer, second one was a 2009 C300 4matic - got a leftover and a pretty good price), now my third one is a C250 coupe. I really am impressed with the Mercedes Brand, and how much they are willing to work on the lease payments, its almost like a game to me to see how low they will go. My G37 was $5,000 due at signing, $510 a month for the same terms as my C250 coupe. So I had half the out of pocket and still reduced my monthly by $210 a month for a car that was $3,000 higher MSRP (G37 was ~$41,xxx).

 

damn, and i thought i was a good negotiator.

Next time i'll take you with me to dealer!

 

Congratulations, definitely the way to do it

 

I know this thread is a few days old but that is amazing! Ace, I hope I can follow in your footsteps and become a successful and likely responsible adult as you are. Quite a milestone, and you picked the most beautiful color possible for a Mercedes in my personal opinion. Great cars!

Off Topic:

As for SportStick - I remember you answered some of my early questions on this forum before I actually purchased a Mercedes, thank you so much for the advice as I truly love my new E-Class! Haven't seen you around on the W211 forums as much but perhaps it is a hit and miss deal. Cheers.

 

Why do you need 2 cars?

 

You must be new here.

 

What are you trying to say?