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The wife and I are shopping for a new Leaf, so we stopped by the Nissan dealership nearest our house in The OC. The first salesman we spoke with knew absolutely nothing about the Leaf, so he turned us over to another salesman who he described as the "Leaf Expert." This young man was also very nice, but his knowledge of the Leaf wasn't much better than the first guy's (example: he told us the big metal box under the hood was the battery). This was also his second day working at the dealership, which may have had something to do with it. Anyway nice guy, but I walked away with the feeling that I knew more about the Leaf than he did, and I've been researching them for less than a week.
Anyway we got to drive a few laps around the auto center and then we sat down to talk about numbers for a bit. As usually happens in car stealerships, we got turned over again to a Sales Manager, who offered us a $279/36 month lease deal on the SV we had been looking at, and mentioned a $13,000(!!!) rebate from Nissan on the 2016 Leafs. We had to leave for another appointment so I was not able to press for details, but later when I went to Nissan's web site I could find no mention of any sort of rebate.
So I'm hoping that you knowledgeable folks can give me the straight scoop. My initial idea was to either lease a new Leaf or buy a used one, but a $13,000 rebate on top of the $7500 tax credit is pretty tempting, making a new Leaf cost only a few thousand more than a used one. Is this rebate for real? Is it documented anywhere? Or are these guys just trying to bamboozle us?
Anyway we got to drive a few laps around the auto center and then we sat down to talk about numbers for a bit. As usually happens in car stealerships, we got turned over again to a Sales Manager, who offered us a $279/36 month lease deal on the SV we had been looking at, and mentioned a $13,000(!!!) rebate from Nissan on the 2016 Leafs. We had to leave for another appointment so I was not able to press for details, but later when I went to Nissan's web site I could find no mention of any sort of rebate.
So I'm hoping that you knowledgeable folks can give me the straight scoop. My initial idea was to either lease a new Leaf or buy a used one, but a $13,000 rebate on top of the $7500 tax credit is pretty tempting, making a new Leaf cost only a few thousand more than a used one. Is this rebate for real? Is it documented anywhere? Or are these guys just trying to bamboozle us?