Stevo

hey guys,
my lease on my e class is up in march. I really want to try to get into a cls lease. For those of you who are leasing what are your payments? What did you put down? Is the residual on this car good? I want to put 3k down and pay under $900. Am i dreaming here?

Eric H.

You are dreaming. Going off a 69K car with 48 Month lease...figure about 500 cap reduction with the 3K money you are putting down..using a .333% money factor (~ what you will get with MB Credit) you are at approximately $1021 including Cali (Orange County) tax.

The residual is 55% making this car a great lease option. My payments on my $74,600 sticker is 1140 w/ Lo Jack & Tax. Just try to get the cost of car down, then negotiate a better money factor. On my car I negotiated it $1700 off or so. US Credit and Chase didn't want to finance me so I had to use MB Credit which typically costs more but also uses a higher residual. Hope this helps.

RJC

Just don't lease through MB Credit, they have they worst rates/payments.

Kanji

You can always try a Credit Union like Wescom or First City in So. Cal? or any Credit Union in your area. They will usually have the lowest Interest rates than market. or Try Autoland.com.

soln

I leased my car from MB credit. I shopped around first and MB matched the lowest price.

RJC

Trust me you could have probably done better if MB Credit matched it...I've delt with them too and many a time, until I saw the light.

Either way enjoy your CLS .