Posted on 02/25/2013 8:17:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
O'Brien Mitsubishi, based in Normal, IL, is offering something way outside the norm: an absurdly low lease price – the cheapest we've ever seen – for on an electric vehicle.
AutoblogGreen reader Josh K. could hardly believe what he saw when driving by a rotating banner advertising the a Mitsubishi i-MiEV recently: $69 a month for 24 months. That compares with the official Mitsubishi lease program from last fall, which was $249 a month for three years.
Yes, it sounds too good to be true. So we called the dealership and had the lease offering confirmed.
Salesman Scott Lovett explained that, starting January 1, the dealership began running a 24-month lease promotion for the Mitsubishi i ES that gives customers two options:
$69 per month for two years, after which the car is returned. The customer has to pay tax, title and license up front, which Lovett estimated at about $2,100.
$169 per month with no money down, and tax, title and license is rolled into the monthly payment. It's also a 24-month lease program.
About 90 percent of the i lease takers are having Level 2 charging ports installed at their homes...
(Excerpt) Read more at green.autoblog.com ...
might as well just drive a golf cart like they have around Sun-City, AZ.
Looks like you’d need two of them....one for each foot.
“About 90 percent of the i lease takers are having Level 2 charging ports installed at their homes”
So it’s $60 a month plus $2000 in electrical bills..
Looks like a Tata Nano.
So it’s $60 a month plus $2000 in electrical bills..”
Plus the cost of the electrician to rewire your house to accommodate the charging port.
I wouldn’t drive one even if it was gasoline operated. Just pretty ugly.
“I wouldn’t drive one even if it was gasoline operated. Just pretty ugly.”
i’d rather take public transit with the rest of the loudmouth afros than be seen driving that oversized golfcart.
At least the Tata won’t run out of juice halfway to your destination.
About half or less the cost of coal. Cost about 6 cents kWh here. Grand Coulee Dam alone capacity = 7,000 MW. Average coal plant 1/10 that.
“At least the Tata won’t run out of juice halfway to your destination.”
A really fat guy got hit from behind by one of those Tata Nanaos that was going at top speed.
They had to take the fat guy to the hospital.
To have it removed.
Leftists love to drive ugly impractical cars.
Every time we see one of these on the road, my four year old grandson, says, “grandma there’s a Barack Obama car.”
I think this would be a FABULOUS deal for a young city dweller with a garage where he or she could charge it.
So, how is a young, broke urban dweller going to get a favorable terms (or for that matter, any) lease and then charge it in their (probably $750K and up in “the good, trendy part” of the urban center) home?
The lack of places to charge it that are NOT in your garage is the problem. So is simply PARKING it, which might easily cost more than the lease!
Such cars if mandated are a de facto family size limiter. You can’t pack three kids in or the food to feed them into the car.
....of course grandma helped him with that once! We are making sure this little one will grow up NOT TO BE A LIBERAL MARXIST!
Such cars are death wagons.
A family in such a box has no chance of survival in a serious emergency. It’s as bad as being dependent on “mass transit.”
Someone is bringing that kid up right!
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