Incredibly good lease on 2025 XLT

[ZeusDriver]

Get 'em while they're hot! (This lease deal from Ford Finance expires in a few days, I believe. Maybe they will extend it. I don't know. )

I tend to keep cars for a long time, so it is very much unlike me to get a new vehicle after having bought my low mileage 2022 XLT less than a year ago.

But I stumbled into the Ford website, and checked lease prices. I saw an XLT for $301 per month for 10,500 mpy. The lease on a Pro was more than twice that. I assumed that it was a typo. It's not. So now I am driving a brand new 2025 XLT for less than its expected depreciation alone. I did three years, figuring that by the lease expiration, I would trade for the new generation Ranger EV (or less likely for the EREV F150. )

But regardless of any trade plans etc, I had more than the lease term left on my financed 2022, and was paying about $100 more per month, so it seemed like an absolute no-brainer. Over the next three years, I will pay less than I had been paying, and have a newer vehicle to boot, with full warranties, brand new batteries and tires, etc, etc. and a few more nice features, such as the tailgate step, and lane keeping that actually steers the car instead of just vibrating the steering wheel.

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[bc1]

Too bad no one in my family needs a vehicle now or I'd get them one.

That said, I was looking at the Teslas when Hertz was getting rid of 1 year old rentals for 20 to 30 grand. If I see a 2 or 3 year old lightning show up for 20 grand or so then having another one is a no brainer.

Who needs a new one with a generator. Add a tow bar to another lightning and head down the road and maybe get 500 miles or so. Put the wife in the second one and she could be the pusher!!

 

[ZeusDriver]

Who needs a new one with a generator. Add a tow bar to another lightning and head down the road and maybe get 500 miles or so. Put the wife in the second one and she could be the pusher!!

I love this! What could be better? And the fun choices: should they match, or be in contrasting colors? And should the rear one maybe towed backwards?

 

[JRDM2]

How did you get out of the old lease? Not that I’m looking to get out, I just got mine two months ago.

 

[PrimeRisk]

Get 'em while they're hot! (This lease deal from Ford Finance expires in a few days, I believe. Maybe they will extend it. I don't know. )

I tend to keep cars for a long time, so it is very much unlike me to get a new vehicle after having bought my low mileage 2022 XLT less than a year ago.

But I stumbled into the Ford website, and checked lease prices. I saw an XLT for $301 per month for 10,500 mpy. The lease on a Pro was more than twice that. I assumed that it was a typo. It's not. So now I am driving a brand new 2025 XLT for less than its expected depreciation alone. I did three years, figuring that by the lease expiration, I would trade for the new generation Ranger EV (or less likely for the EREV F150. )

But regardless of any trade plans etc, I had more than the lease term left on my financed 2022, and was paying about $100 more per month, so it seemed like an absolute no-brainer. Over the next three years, I will pay less than I had been paying, and have a newer vehicle to boot, with full warranties, brand new batteries and tires, etc, etc. and a few more nice features, such as the tailgate step, and lane keeping that actually steers the car instead of just vibrating the steering wheel.

https://www.ford.com/trucks/f150-lightning/?gnav=header-electrified-vhp

Did you trade in your '22 or do you have 2 Lightnings now?

 

[PrimeRisk]

Too bad no one in my family needs a vehicle now or I'd get them one.

That said, I was looking at the Teslas when Hertz was getting rid of 1 year old rentals for 20 to 30 grand. If I see a 2 or 3 year old lightning show up for 20 grand or so then having another one is a no brainer.

Who needs a new one with a generator. Add a tow bar to another lightning and head down the road and maybe get 500 miles or so. Put the wife in the second one and she could be the pusher!!

I'd never consider buying a used rental car. Why? Because *I* have driven some of those rental cars.

 

[Zaptor]

I'm not in the market, but I see $437/mo zero down for SR and $429/mo $7529 down for ER for my zip code in the PNW " Pricing for December 30, 2025 and 97XXX"... might be market-specific to thin out inventory in regions flush with them...
-Zap

 

[ZeusDriver]

Did you trade in your '22 or do you have 2 Lightnings now?

Traded the 2022. Had enough equity to pay the $6K something down.

 

[PrimeRisk]

Traded the 2022. Had enough equity to pay the $6K something down.

Sounds like a great deal!

 

[PA Lightning]

I saw the $301/ month 24 mo lease, but it requires $6,895 down. The effective lease payment per month is $588 before your lease tax.
The 36 month lease is $439/month with $439 down. Seems like the 36 month is the way to go if you want to lease a XLT

 

[Vulnox]

We are getting close to that time if it happens like last year. I got my Platinum for $403/mo for 24 months back in March. Makes sense the deals would start showing up again as we head into the new year. Be sure to check into it early though, there were basically no Platinums or Lariats left in Michigan when I got mine, it took some work for my sales person to get mine, also how I ended up with white since it was all we could find that wasn't already taken.

 

[Latitude18]

Just posting for the benefit of the community, I signed yesterday on a 2025 XLT for 285/month w only first payment due at signing. Included a 2k Private Cash Offer, without that payment would have been ~370/month. 24 month lease and 10,500 miles annually.

 

[WXman]

When I leased mine 5 months ago, the residual value was 50% of MSRP @ 48 months. That's not the worst I've seen on vehicles in my lifetime, but it's pretty rough. So the only way to get a low lease payment at that point is to 1) get a ton of rebates or 2) put down a ton of money. Generally it's not recommended to put money down on a lease because if something terrible happens you lose it all (leasing institution holds the title and all rights to the vehilcle). And the rebates as we all know are now gone. So, personally I wouldn't lease a Lightning at this point. But that's just me.

For what it's worth, today I was offered $46k for my Flash that came off the assembly line 6 months ago. That's $27k under MSRP in 6 months. Ouch. So if you do decide to lease anyhow, make sure you have every intention of keeping it the full term because getting out of the lease early will cost you a small fortune.

 

[Tired Lizard]

A couple of days ago at a dealer I looked at a 25 Flash with 9.6kW, Max Tow, $59,995 with Ford's incentives. 48 month, 10Kmi/yr. $0 cash was estimated to be ~$610 to ~$700/mo for me.
If I put down $8000, could have gotten the monthly below $500/month, so I passed on it.

 

[RLXXI]

When I leased mine 5 months ago, the residual value was 50% of MSRP @ 48 months. That's not the worst I've seen on vehicles in my lifetime, but it's pretty rough. So the only way to get a low lease payment at that point is to 1) get a ton of rebates or 2) put down a ton of money. Generally it's not recommended to put money down on a lease because if something terrible happens you lose it all (leasing institution holds the title and all rights to the vehilcle). And the rebates as we all know are now gone. So, personally I wouldn't lease a Lightning at this point. But that's just me.

For what it's worth, today I was offered $46k for my Flash that came off the assembly line 6 months ago. That's $27k under MSRP in 6 months. Ouch. So if you do decide to lease anyhow, make sure you have every intention of keeping it the full term because getting out of the lease early will cost you a small fortune.

Same boat except I decided on day 2 I wasn't letting it go back at lease end. Unless something catastrophic happens between now and then, it's a keeper for me.

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