what do the numbers look like on paper, it's pretty confusing what they showed me
Sorry jaygee15, missed your reply earlier. Sorry for the long post but here's how my numbers worked out. It can be confusing but I believe the math works out. However, I'm only an electrical engineer so I could have something wrong. Finance people always find a way to perplex me...
In my case car was a GT2 AWD with MSRP of $52500. Negotiated price was $48,699.
The key is the negotiated price. If you do the lease cash deal make sure the negotiated price is used.
Here's the gross capitalization cost which is what the ?real' cost is :
(sorry for the poor images, Kia needs to get in the 21st century and quit using stupid forms in printers. Just pdf the whole thing)
Note the tax is on the depreciated amount of the car over the lease term plus the ?rent' charge. They also add in the acquisition fee and any other dealer extras. They got me here for the ?road & key', what ever that is, so watch for these dealer add ins.
Next in part B below they add my down payment (trade in) to the $7000 lease cash rebate for a total of $12000.
This total is the total down payment. They then take out the taxes, lic/reg fees and first month lease payment from this as shown in part A above. Note you have to pay sales tax on the lease cash since it is a rebate not a discount. This is the tax in part A. Once these are subtracted from the ?down payment', the rest ?buy's down' the lease, in my case by $10780.37. The lease amount is then based on the remaining amount minus the residual plus the interest (rent charge) divided over the 36 months.
As a side note, I plan to buy out this lease however somehow my paperwork got screwed up and Kia took over 6 weeks to get my account set up. I had to make an additional payment before I could get my buy out quote. So my buy out is $41755 which i'm still checking but I think sounds right. It includes a close out fee plus the tax on the ?residual' amount, but since I made two lease payments, it's hard to figure the exact amount. Interestingly note the warning on the bottom of the second figure above. The buyout quote dosn't appear to have anything crazy like that in it.
Hope this helps, if not too late.