Brand New Leaf (2012 SL) from Carmax for only $26K?

[garygid]

The original use of the vehicle commences with the taxpayer—it must be a new vehicle.

Isn't a dealer using the vehicle as a demo car... the ORIGINAL USE of the vehicle?

Even if the dealer did not claim the Tax Credit, the taxpayer
might not be eligible for the Tax Credit?

 

[Insureit1]

Ok picked up the 2012 LEAF SV today for $22,600 OTD final price (including TT, Freight and license fees) And yes I do get to take the tax credit of $7500. Net cost after tax credit comes to $15,100. Actually held the MCO in my hand and signed the back of the MCO as the original purchaser. They had one blue and black SL left but both had pending sales. One was supposedly being purchased by someone in California and they were going to fly in to pick up the car. This will be a take home company car for one of my employees and I think it was a great deal for a great car. Both sales manager and finance guy keep wondering why I kept asking if Carmax had already taken the tax credit. Got 1.49% for 5 years at Pentagon Federal. This entire process was done via email and fax only taking about 20 minutes of final paperwork.

 

[evnow]

Ok picked up the 2012 LEAF SV today for $22,600 OTD final price (including TT, Freight and license fees) And yes I do get to take the tax credit of $7500. Net cost after tax credit comes to $15,100. Actually held the MCO in my hand and signed the back of the MCO as the original purchaser. They had one blue and black SL left but both had pending sales.

Great deal - glad it turned out ok.

 

[gaswalla]

Ok picked up the 2012 LEAF SV today for $22,600 OTD final price (including TT, Freight and license fees) And yes I do get to take the tax credit of $7500. Net cost after tax credit comes to $15,100. Actually held the MCO in my hand and signed the back of the MCO as the original purchaser. They had one blue and black SL left but both had pending sales. One was supposedly being purchased by someone in California and they were going to fly in to pick up the car. This will be a take home company car for one of my employees and I think it was a great deal for a great car. Both sales manager and finance guy keep wondering why I kept asking if Carmax had already taken the tax credit. Got 1.49% for 5 years at Pentagon Federal. This entire process was done via email and fax only taking about 20 minutes of final paperwork.

Great deal!

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Even though I'm the OP, I swear I'm not the guy from California getting the car.

 

[gaswalla]

What's crazy is that CarMax is also selling a Used 2011 SL with 26,000 miles in Las Vegas (hot, hot, hot) for 21K.

http://carmax.com/enus/search-results/default.html?ANa=4294961840&N=4294966976&Ne=4&D=90&zip=92130&pD=0&pI=0&pT=400&pC=200&pB=0&No=0&Ep=homepage:homepage%20Make&Rp=R&PP=50&sV=List&CD=662+14+966+240+190+398+9&Q=62b7d936-23bd-43c0-b80a-cf6ef99149e0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

 

[cwerdna]

Ok picked up the 2012 LEAF SV today for $22,600 OTD final price (including TT, Freight and license fees) And yes I do get to take the tax credit of $7500. Net cost after tax credit comes to $15,100. Actually held the MCO in my hand and signed the back of the MCO as the original purchaser. They had one blue and black SL left but both had pending sales.

Great deal - glad it turned out ok.

It is an awesome deal. Sounds like it turned out ok. We will see whether he hits problems months after he submits his 2013 income taxes. Best of luck!

I'm not the CA guy who snagged a car either. Too far for me and still sounds fishy.

 

[braineo]

you beat me on your deal, only redeeming grace was GA 5k tax credit, which woud have made it a 10k new car... congrats and hats off!

 

[weekss]

Great Deal! Wish I needed another, I'd be taking a trip

 

[madbrain]

One was supposedly being purchased by someone in California and they were going to fly in to pick up the car

Someone was flying in from California to Maryland to pick up the car ? I hope they weren't planning on driving it all the way back, +/- 73 miles at a time.

 

[TimLee]

Ok picked up the 2012 LEAF SV today for $22,600 OTD final price (including TT, Freight and license fees) And yes I do get to take the tax credit of $7500. Net cost after tax credit comes to $15,100. Actually held the MCO in my hand and signed the back of the MCO as the original purchaser.

Congratulations!
Would appear that the Carmax Nissan dealer was dumping 2012 inventory at the dealership cost (or possibly less than the dealership cost).
I'm not sure why they would do that, but with new 2013 LEAFs showing up in a few weeks or months, occasionally strange deals like this do happen.
Still kind of hard to comprehend a net price of $15,100, for an electric vehicle with a 24 kWh battery.
Although Nissan hasn't released pricing for replacement battery, it probably will be somewhere in the $400, $500, up to $700 per kWh range.
$7200, $9600, or $14,400 battery cost.
So you got a brand new 2012 Nissan LEAF for somewhere between $8000 and $800 more than the cost of the battery.
Would appear resale value of Nissan LEAF is heading towards the worst resale value of any vehicle every produced.
With that, sales will remain slow, or will likely fall.

 

[EVDRIVER]

Ok picked up the 2012 LEAF SV today for $22,600 OTD final price (including TT, Freight and license fees) And yes I do get to take the tax credit of $7500. Net cost after tax credit comes to $15,100. Actually held the MCO in my hand and signed the back of the MCO as the original purchaser.

Congratulations!
Would appear that the Carmax Nissan dealer was dumping 2012 inventory at the dealership cost (or possibly less than the dealership cost).
I'm not sure why they would do that, but with new 2013 LEAFs showing up in a few weeks or months, occasionally strange deals like this do happen.
Still kind of hard to comprehend a net price of $15,100, for an electric vehicle with a 24 kWh battery.
Although Nissan hasn't released pricing for replacement battery, it probably will be somewhere in the $400, $500, up to $700 per kWh range.
$7200, $9600, or $14,400 battery cost.
So you got a brand new 2012 Nissan LEAF for somewhere between $8000 and $800 more than the cost of the battery.
Would appear resale value of Nissan LEAF is heading towards the worst resale value of any vehicle every produced.
With that, sales will remain slow, or will likely fall.

Nissan really needs to step it up with low pack replacement pricing or the car is essentially disposable.

 

[TonyWilliams]

What's crazy is that CarMax is also selling a Used 2011 SL with 26,000 miles in Las Vegas (hot, hot, hot) for 21K.

http://carmax.com/enus/search-results/default.html?ANa=4294961840&N=4294966976&Ne=4&D=90&zip=92130&pD=0&pI=0&pT=400&pC=200&pB=0&No=0&Ep=homepage:homepage%20Make&Rp=R&PP=50&sV=List&CD=662+14+966+240+190+398+9&Q=62b7d936-23bd-43c0-b80a-cf6ef99149e0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

That's mine... from San Diego. They've had the car since July 2012, and paid me $23,000.

 

[edatoakrun]

...Nissan really needs to step it up with low pack replacement pricing or the car is essentially disposable.

Six LEAF sales reported completed in the last two weeks at prices varying from $17.9 k to $ 26.5 k.

http://motors.completed.shop.ebay.com/Cars-Trucks-/6001/i.html?LH_Complete=1&_nkw=Nissan+LEaF&_dmpt=US_Cars_Trucks&_sc=1&_sop=7&_sticky=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

 

[edatoakrun]

What's crazy is that CarMax is also selling a Used 2011 SL with 26,000 miles in Las Vegas (hot, hot, hot) for 21K.

http://carmax.com/enus/search-results/default.html?ANa=4294961840&N=4294966976&Ne=4&D=90&zip=92130&pD=0&pI=0&pT=400&pC=200&pB=0&No=0&Ep=homepage:homepage%20Make&Rp=R&PP=50&sV=List&CD=662+14+966+240+190+398+9&Q=62b7d936-23bd-43c0-b80a-cf6ef99149e0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

That's mine... from San Diego. They've had the car since July 2012, and paid me $23,000.

And it looks to me to still have had all 12 battery capacity bars, whenever the photos were taken.

You think maybe it was a mistake to have listed it as having lost a bar almost six months ago?

#53 Jul 30, 2012 TonyWilliams San Diego, CA 25344 miles 14.5 months 02244 Jul 30, 2012 907-7839

http://mynissanleaf.com/wiki/index.php?title=Real_World_Battery_Capacity_Loss#four_bars" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;