lease timing based on residual and money factor

[bmw_guy_2020]

I'm planning on taking delivery of an M3 coupe on July 1.

This is the current lease information for an M3 coupe posted on www.ridewithg.com (for Jan 2011):

36month | 15k miles | residual 58% | .00175 base money factor

BTW - Is this type of information posted somewhere on this site as well?

Anyway - do these figures seem about typical for this model? From what I understand the best deals are usually in Nov/Dec.

However, do you expect that these figures will get better, worse or stay about the same over the next few months?

I'm probably going to pull the trigger in April or May unless there is a good chance that these numbers will get worse before then.

Or I will try to delay the purchase if the figures are expected to improve after April/May.

Can anyone here speak from experience on this?

[Glop]

January rate are really good, especially on the convertible. You can find the info, search for leasecompare. You can only lock for 60 days on the east coast, 90 days on the west coast.

I placed an order on a E93 vert with 12k/year, 63% residual, 0.0009 base MF (+0.0003 for ED) with, for me as I have 7 MSD will makes it 0.00071. That's 1.7%... this is probably very close to as low as it's gonna get, it might go lower but the difference will be small at this point. I wouldn't wait.

[bmw_guy_2020]

Originally Posted by Glop

January rate are really good, especially on the convertible. You can find the info, search for leasecompare. You can only lock for 60 days on the east coast, 90 days on the west coast.

I placed an order on a E93 vert with 12k/year, 63% residual, 0.0009 base MF (+0.0003 for ED) with, for me as I have 7 MSD will makes it 0.00071. That's 1.7%... this is probably very close to as low as it's gonna get, it might go lower but the difference will be small at this point. I wouldn't wait.

Yes - I noticed that the January rate for the convertible is very good.

Unfortunately, I don't want a convertible - I want a coupe with a sunroof.

Do the lease numbers for the coupe look pretty standard or do you think the lease numbers will get worse by April 1?

[Glop]

Same as with the vert. Looks close enough to as good as it's gonna get (to me anyway).

[Kyoshi71]

Do you really need 15K per year though? unless I'm wrong, I think the site only provides figures for 15K per year. 12k per year would be even more favorable if you could compare.