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Select Toyota Dealerships: 36-Mo Lease on 2023 bZ4X XLE Electric Car Expired

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Select Toyota Dealerships are offering a 36-Month Lease on 2023 Toyota bZ4X XLE Electric Car as listed below. This offer is limited to select locations/dealerships only.

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    • 36-Month Lease on 2023 Toyota bZ4X XLE Electric Car $1999 down + $129 per month = $6643 total
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    • 36-Month Lease on 2023 Toyota bZ4X XLE Electric Car $1999 down + $139 per month = $7003 total

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This was in the news. I haven't contacted the dealer yet but it looks like $2210 pay down and $125 a month. My simple math says about $185 a month.

This excludes any dealer discounts. But may exclude some other fees. I have never leased so no clue.

Great as a third car. Note that this model didn't get very good reviews - hence it being priced accordingly.

https://www.toyota.com/midwest/de...icles=bz4x
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Correct.
Toyota built this as a compliance car to fill a gap in the lineup and has zero focus on it or care. If anything, it is the 'look we built an EV, it sucks!'. The first production run had WHEELS FALLING OFF. They recalled every single one! The car is slow and just utterly wild in it's idiocy.

We test drove the badge engineered Subaru version - the Solterra. Same car, different logo.
The list of infuriating choices piled fast. Want to move the driver's seat? BEEPS. CONSTANT BEEPS.
Want to back up? It beeps on the inside and inside only. Who are they warning?! Me? I"M DRIVING THE CAR.
The performance is just bad. It has a quick little bit of torque and then falls on it's face.
Did I mention the range sucks and that the car does not support fast charging so you literally cannot roadtrip it without hour-long-stops?
All in all, it just felt like Toyota was completely uninterested in building it as it is lower margin than gas/hybrid.

Then you have the ioniq 5. Hyundai's focus is straight up on on beating the Tesla Model Y. They are serious and in it. The car is shockingly better looking in person than the BZ4X. The interior feels like tomorrow and has innovative ideas, way more range, way better software, etc.
Korea is currently having the same moment that Japan had in the 90s, Hyundai should be taken seriously, esp in the EV space.
Texas sucks for leases. Have to pay taxes on full amount.

TX offer is $4k down $219 a month plus TTL
This price is only for 2023 which is all sold out

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MSG123
04-24-2024 at 09:50 AM.
04-24-2024 at 09:50 AM.
The 10k miles on this is not that bad, but lower than the standard 12k miles / year leases. If you do the math, the extra 2k miles will cost $300 a year, or an extra $25 / month. That's not that much more. Compared to the Ioniq 6 deal, this is still a super good deal at $154 / month vs $239. However, Hyundai also includes 2 years of free EV charging, and in california, that's worth a LOT. It's enough where the leases become comparable.

Still, I would much rather have the Ioniq 6 over this garbage EV.
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04-24-2024 at 09:52 AM.
04-24-2024 at 09:52 AM.
Quote from Atl golfer :
I had a 1972 GMC Jimmy with a broken gas gauge. Ran out all the time but usually had a filled can with me.

Drove an EV an 2013/14/15. Ran out once. Car company offered free tows - not a long wait thankfully - parked it in my driveway.

What is funny is people act like there are more gas stations around than electrical outlets.

True, there are electrical outlets all over, but your electric vehicle will take several hours to get any meaningful charge from a regular electrical outlet. It only takes a few minutes to fill a tank in a gas-powered vehicle.
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sonicjet
04-24-2024 at 09:53 AM.
04-24-2024 at 09:53 AM.
Quote from Capsloc :
Bunch of hoo-ha in this comment. It's a good city car. It's not a road tripper. It has its niche market. Essentially if you have access to a wall plug at home and drive 20-40 miles daily, it's an amazing car. The majority of people don't need a blazing fast car haha. I own the Solterra and it's the best "Subie" I've ever owned.
I must add:

For $50,000...you get a perfectly fine $30,000 Subaru.

The problem I'm outlining is clear - For $50,000, you should get a $50,000 car and everything else at the price range is dramatically better, the reviewers all universally state it as well. You can get a RAV4 Prime for less and get all of what you just explained plus the ability to put gas in it if you wanted, plus it is quicker for highway merges.
At $199/mo that whole thought is moot and it is an incredible 'car', but at full price it is awful and uncompetitive.
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Madman999
04-24-2024 at 09:59 AM.
04-24-2024 at 09:59 AM.
Would a used Solterra from 26k and under 10,000 miles be a better deal?

https://www.hertzcarsales.com/use...eoRadius=0

Probably gently used in the west coast
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shinra25
04-24-2024 at 10:00 AM.
04-24-2024 at 10:00 AM.
Quote from JimR2075 :
Ok so whats wrong with the car specifically?

Its got poor range relative to most new EVs. Slowish charging too. What else?
You're also limited to two fast charges up to 80% a day so as long as you don't go over that, its not a problem, but if you need to go over say 600 miles in a day, then youre SOL
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04-24-2024 at 10:00 AM.
04-24-2024 at 10:00 AM.
I rented a solterra for a weekend, it was very comfy in terms of ride, but the seat headrests were uncomfortable as a passenger. The center console interfered with my knee too, quite annoyingly. Otherwise it seemed like a solid vehicle. I haven't heard any recalls since the initial wheel bolt torque thing, which is hardly a recall as compared to the ICCU issue that's been plaguing the Ioniq 5.
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04-24-2024 at 10:11 AM.
04-24-2024 at 10:11 AM.
Quote from warmail :
220 EPA range. But some reviews says its even lower in real life and its close to 160 miles.
"220 EPA range" is just for driving and that is the way EPA does this for years. "160 miles" MOSTLY because we have to turn on the heat and cold outside. No EV is perfect yet. . .
EV is not really bad as many people are trashing it
""""We switched to EV to save so much money on GAS for now."""""
I worked on cars for years and right now our families still driving the Lexus, Nissan, and Honda with gasoline engines. AND BZ4X, Tesla 3 and Tesla Y

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bert90987
04-24-2024 at 10:11 AM.
04-24-2024 at 10:11 AM.
Quote from Madman999 :
Would a used Solterra from 26k and under 10,000 miles be a better deal?

https://www.hertzcarsales.com/use...eoRadius=0

Probably gently used in the west coast
I've read that rental cars often have side curtain airbags and other features removed from them to make them cheaper when rental companies buy them for their fleets. I don't know if it's still done. the story I attached is from 2009, so maybe there are laws against it now. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/repo...s-airbags/
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MellowStranger162
04-24-2024 at 10:13 AM.
04-24-2024 at 10:13 AM.
Quote from warmail :
Some people look the spec and reviews and decide some just stuck with brand name.
Exactly. As a Tesla owner, Hyundai Ioniq EV is very nice looking and a good competitor for model Y. This thing is just a half assed attempt, Toyota will make awesome EVs in a few years
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ucb2001
04-24-2024 at 10:19 AM.
04-24-2024 at 10:19 AM.
I got this deal this weekend. I knew the limitations for the car when I went in to get it. I experienced the 12v battery draining that caused the car not to turn on the first day. I was parked and using AC on a hot day with 80% battery, but didn't know that it was draining a smaller battery. I found a solution to do the remote climate startup and after about 5-10 minutes the car was able to start again.

That being said, I really like the car. I like that it's EV, CarPlay, buttons for AC, tires aren't $$$, charging is cheap compared to gas.

Charging was super simple with ChargePoint and it only cost me $2.80 to go from 60% to 85%. The car automatically stopped charging once it hit that %. Supposedly there is a free year of EVgo charging when you use the Toyota app, but I cannot get the app to do it. It seems to get stuck connecting to the EVgo account.
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04-24-2024 at 10:22 AM.
04-24-2024 at 10:22 AM.
Quote from sonicjet :
Correct.
Toyota built this as a compliance car to fill a gap in the lineup and has zero focus on it or care. If anything, it is the 'look we built an EV, it sucks!'. The first production run had WHEELS FALLING OFF. They recalled every single one! The car is slow and just utterly wild in it's idiocy.

We test drove the badge engineered Subaru version - the Solterra. Same car, different logo.
The list of infuriating choices piled fast. Want to move the driver's seat? BEEPS. CONSTANT BEEPS.
Want to back up? It beeps on the inside and inside only. Who are they warning?! Me? I"M DRIVING THE CAR.
The performance is just bad. It has a quick little bit of torque and then falls on it's face.
Did I mention the range sucks and that the car does not support fast charging so you literally cannot roadtrip it without hour-long-stops?
All in all, it just felt like Toyota was completely uninterested in building it as it is lower margin than gas/hybrid.

Then you have the ioniq 5. Hyundai's focus is straight up on on beating the Tesla Model Y. They are serious and in it. The car is shockingly better looking in person than the BZ4X. The interior feels like tomorrow and has innovative ideas, way more range, way better software, etc.
Korea is currently having the same moment that Japan had in the 90s, Hyundai should be taken seriously, esp in the EV space.

Toyota specifically said they believe electric vehicles are more of an impact to the environment than a carbon emission vehicle and they are not in the business of electric vehicles. Their hybrids are where they focus their attention for green initiative.
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warmail
04-24-2024 at 10:23 AM.
04-24-2024 at 10:23 AM.
Quote from bakerzdosen :
Exactly.

Even if all the stars somehow aligned and I got a Toyota bz4x on this deal that had zero issues for the 36 month lease, it still wouldn't be a deal for me. The example you gave isn't far off my situation.

50 mile commute = 100mi/day = 2000mi/month = 24,000mi/year. At 15¢/mile over 10k miles/year, that's an additional $175/mo for this or over $305/month.

Meanwhile, you can get a low mileage 2023 Bolt/Bolt EUV for around $20k ($16k if you qualify and count the tax credit) or ≈$400/mo at 6.75% for 60 months. (Again, closer to $315/mo with tax credit and you'll *own* it.)

And if you can charge at home - especially with a cheap EV plan, ours is 4.5¢/kwh for example - overnight then slow charging doesn't matter and it'd cost you less than $2/day in electricity charges to travel those 100 miles. In fact it'd probably be closer to $1.35/day as those 100 miles would probably end up using 25-30kwh at most - depending on time of year, traffic, and driving style/speeds etc.

A 48A level 2 home charger would be able to charge a Bolt/Bolt EUV an additional 30kwh between midnight and 7am without any issue at all.

A 100mi commute also allows you to easily keep the 65kwh battery in the recommended 20%-80% charge range.

This is all back-of-the-napkin math, but all of that to support what you said: a used Bolt would be perfect for someone with a 50 mile commute if they have access to home charging.
Exactly what I was thinking. You can buy 2021 bolt around 11K with tax credits. To get 4k tax credit vehicle has to be 2 years old.
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04-24-2024 at 10:36 AM.
04-24-2024 at 10:36 AM.
Plus as much as $5k in dealer markup ($150/mo extra)
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warmail
04-24-2024 at 10:38 AM.
04-24-2024 at 10:38 AM.
Quote from BetterBuys :
"220 EPA range" is just for driving and that is the way EPA does this for years. "160 miles" MOSTLY because we have to turn on the heat and cold outside. No EV is perfect yet. . .
EV is not really bad as many people are trashing it
""""We switched to EV to save so much money on GAS for now."""""
I worked on cars for years and right now our families still driving the Lexus, Nissan, and Honda with gasoline engines. AND BZ4X, Tesla 3 and Tesla Y
I'm talking about the difference in EPA and real life mileage. Most of the EVs have a difference between 5 to 10% from EPA range but this estimated close to 30% difference from EPA range.
https://www.caranddriver.com/feat...ld-tested/
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04-24-2024 at 10:39 AM.
04-24-2024 at 10:39 AM.
Quote from warmail :
Exactly what I was thinking. You can buy 2021 bolt around 11K with tax credits. To get 4k tax credit vehicle has to be 2 years old.
Used EV tax credit is limited to lower income. 75K invididual income limit. 150K married income limit.
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