Area: Greater Seattle, WA
Lease signed: July 5th 2014
Picked up vehicle and returned our 2012 SL Leaf lease: July 12 2014
Dealership: Eastside (Bellevue)
2014 SV with charge/LED, silver
Down payment: $4k (that was my preference)
Monthly: 23 payments of $114.5 each
If we want to purchase at end, it's about $17k.
It was definitely part of the July 4th frenzy. For several days I bargained hard with several dealerships. As usual, some were clueless, some indifferent (the closest one to us, Campbell-Nelson, repeated its 2012 attitude of "we're not going to try too hard, we're too satisfied with ourselves anyway"). But 2-3 were really into it. The winning offer came through only at the last day, but at least one other dealership offered a similar deal, alas a day too late.
I insisted on the SV+charge (was originally also looking at the S+charge but changed my mind after seeing all that's missing, our 2012 was an SL). It's the trim that ran out first around here; it seems no dealership would share its remaining ones with any other. The hauled ours from Wenatchee ~150 miles away (in principle you could QC it across the mountains, but the dealership ppl would probably not know how
. We could walk off the lot with a black one, but my wife was against for good reason.
I could also easily walk off the lot on July 5 with an SL for only a teeny bit more, but I dislike leather seats. Feels decadent to me, and seems like it's mandatory with the SL. Around here it seems the SL is by far the most common 2014 remaining.
I plan to join the 21st Century and order that gizmo that enables Leaf Spy (we didn't even have a smartphone when we got our 2012). We'll charge mostly trickle (I like how that charger became so much smaller and sturdy-looking!), but plan to get a Clipper Creek with NEMA 14-50 to take advantage of 6.6kW and enable longer trips using RV sockets, as well as the occasional quicker charge at home (it so happens that 14-50 is also the standard socket for pottery kilns of which we have one in our garage).