Since I posted earlier about my adventures in contacting NMAC and possibly extending the lease on our 2013 S, I thought I'd provide an update and ask some questions:
We did extend the lease for six months, which carries us to the end of September. That's VERY interesting timing as we all now know, thanks to the arrival of the 25% greater range SVs and SLs for 2016.
The 2016s will arrive on September 7th, or so someone at NMAC tells me. They called me in late April to tell me that I could extend my lease for an additional six months (to March 2016), and that I'd have to pay only four of the six payments. While I had them on the phone I asked when the 2016s were arriving, and the woman looked it up. (I probably should have asked more questions.) We're still deciding on whether to do that second six-month extension, but it seems like a no brainer, since it's a pretty good bargain and it doesn't lock us in for a long time.
Has anyone here been directly contacted by NMAC about the $5,000 (or is it %6,500?) lease buyout offer? We haven't. The only way I know about it is from InsideEVs and this forum. I think it's very weird that they would have such a program and not, you know, tell the potential customers about it. Perhaps our first lease extension kicked in early enough that they're not telling us about the $5,000 offer until we're closer to the end of our lease...?
I've seen numerous people online saying that the residual on their 2013 Leaf is around $15,000, leaving them with a roughly $10,000 buyout total, which I find baffling. Our residual is around $19,000. We did get a somewhat lower payment thanks to VPP pricing (I think it was only about $20/month less), but I'm surprised that our residual on a plain ol' S is so high. Opinions?