Connecticut Audi Car Dealers

Hi Car man, can you help? Please forgive the many questions, but it's not as if I can ask a dealer any of this? I am totally confused by the wildly different lease deals on this forum, can you help clarify why everybody's experience seems to be so different? I want to lease a 2011 Audi A4 Quattro with Premium Plus and Nav and bluetooth connect. Edmunds pricing has that at True market Value for $36,466 for Dutchess County NY. MSRP is $38,625, Invoice is $35,985. So here are some questions: 1. Is there a choice of 36 or 39 months and who sets this time? 2. What is the typical or required down payment? Can it be zero as some here have posted? What does zero really mean, does it mean 0, no tax due, no destination fee, nothing? If true zero is not possible, what's the lowest down possible in NY. 3. What is true market value and who says what that is? Can the dealer, if he is not hungry, charge whatever he wants? If I show him that Edmunds says invoice of $35,985, can't he just say, "no, not in NY"? What I'm really asking here is, what do you say to an unmotivated dealer? Buy in CT instead? Is it better to lie and say you want a price for purchase? Does the dealer jack up the price when he knows you want to lease? If yes, isn't that manipulation, shouldn't that really piss off a buyer? 4. Is milage up to me and how does it affect cost of the lease? If I say 10,000 miles will that be less of a monthly than 12 or 15? Will they even consider someone at 10,000 miles? 5. I have a high credit score and no debt, can that get me a better lease price? if so, how does that work, how do I make that benefit transparent? 6. I see no lease incentive program on the Audi site, why so little info? I ask this because it seems every dealer has a different lease price for exactly the same car. I mean, within NY, shouldn't all lease deals in an area that has the same tax rate be exactly the same? If they are not the same, why is this, is it dealer motivation or dealer sleight of hand? 7. Who offers the lease, Audi, or the individual dealer, or both together? How does the dealer make money on a lease? Why does it seem he is desperate to make money off the lease by manipulating numbers? Is this just my imagination? 8. In my mind, because this seems so complicated, and variable, I try to look at only 3 factors, in order to clarify. 1. What is the final best price of the car with the options I want 2. What is the minimum down 3. What is the monthly payment (with 10k or 12k miles) So my question here is, why make it more complicated than that? The dealer gives you his best price with options, then he says what he wants for minimum down, then that sets the monthly payment. What am I missing here if anything? If the dealer is setting these terms by residual and money factor, so what? Should I assume he is always fudging numbers to get more? Should I assume he is not following true residual and true MF? Are dealers that shady, that manipulative? I've had dealers say to me, "well, what monthly do you want" and of course that's just a complete insult to my intelligence because everyone knows if you give them more up front you get a (seemingly) lower monthly, but the dealer said this to make the monthly "look good" as if I was saving money, not to give me a better deal. I walked from that dealer over that comment but he didn't care, "cars were flying out the door" back then. Finally, I want to avoid all the showroom BS, can I get a lease quote that's true and firm online or is it never the same through email compared to going into a showroom? PS: I like cars, I hate the buying process. I believe someday you will be able to walk into a showroom and get a professional tour of the car by the car maker (not a dealer), but make the deal for it at another time and place with a (transparent) professional rep from the car maker (not a dealer). I know that's what many people want, but dream on, right? Thanks!

sorry if this specific configuration has been asked about several times - I get lost looking. Here's my Configuration: 2011 A4 Sedan ,Prem Plus, 6MT Quattro, 12,000 miles. Question: Audi Financial Services money factor and residual for a 36 month and 42 month lease Please, Thanks

Just got back for Dealership in Hartford Ct . Looking at A5S Cab MSRP of $67,600 15K lease with Zero Down for 36 months quoted me $1348.00 per month. Looks like it about two to three hundred dollars a month more than the same priced MB or BMW.

The current version of the Audi A4 was released in 2009, the Infiniti in 2008, so they are only one year apart. Typically cars are restyled every 5-6 years so figure the Infiniti 2013, maybe early release in 2012, the Audi one year after. I've driven both vehicles and own the Infiniti. These are both such good vehicles it is hard to separate them. If I were to own one for say 10 years I'd opt for the Infiniti. Otherwise, the interior of the Audi is superior IMO, and gas mileage. The Infiniti much more powerful engine, all the same tech goodies, worse gas mileage.

I've called dozens of Audi Dealers in the NY, PA, CT, NH, RI, OH area. There were maybe 3 cars on the ground that met my specs (Deep Sea Blue (Brown or Beige), Premium Plus + Nav, 19" 5-Spoke wheels). I was ok with B&O or more equipment too, airbags, mats, etc... Let me just say that any dealer with that actual car was unwilling to trade to any other dealer and only willing to reduce the price by $750. Considering I would have to fly and drive home, that's hardly a discount. I'm trying to work with my local dealer now to get me that car and keep the money in our local economy and save me a trip. Is anyone else running into the same scenario? Oh, most dealers also wanted to charge me an additional $300 for their bogus "doc" fee that they print right into their contracts.