Premium Plus $42.8K:

36 month lease, 15K miles per year, $3K down, $645/month

This mirrors the expiration date of the other AFS programs for February. You can expect Q5 programs to remain this competitive from here on out. If lease rates go up, then the payments will start to rival, and or exceed, Q7 payments, which AoA knows is not a good idea.

The Q5 remains much more expensive than Japanese competitors (Lexus/Acura) so I'm not convinced yet with the current economic conditions that people ignore the extra price tag. But more people might lease now.

Pretty pricy.

I am paying $637/mo. for a $56K MSRP Q7 S-Line. 36 mo./10K with 3K down.

If you want the new and hottest of anything the 1st few weeks, you're going to have to pay a little more for it.

$2700 is not a lot of mark-up in a 42k Audi. The profit margins on these cars are thin.

Audi dealers have NO dealer holdback. There can be 1,000, 2000 ++ in other domestic brands in holdback under invoice. You can't keep the lights on selling every brand new car @ invoice.

Also, with the market and depreciation, residuals on every car are lower than the past. The cost of leasing is going up for everybody.

What you leased a car for in 2007 and 2009 is quite different.

We just got word late last week that we will get in 7 Q5's this week to sell. Most other cars will not arrive until the middle of March.

These lease rates are EXTREMELY competitive. websites like Edmunds have no clue about pricing on this car because they arent officially for sale yet. If any of you read the main page Fourtitude links, you will see that Audi is not as hard hit as almost every other MFG out there. They are going strong with advertising and from what i have read, the Q5 really has a change to be a strong #2 car behind the bland but volume heavy Lexus RX350.

Go drive the Q5 then drive an X3, EX35, or GLK and i really dare you to say any of those 3 are all around a better car than the Audi for the price and value.

Jan 2009 Jan 2008
4,722 6,418 -27%

Sales of the Q5 should reduce the decline but but hard to predict at this point how much.
BMW 'only' lost 15% compared to last year. But most other companies certainly had higher declines.

I find the RX bland as well but that's rather because the redesign looks very much like the previous gen (pity). But the Audi Q5 will look bland in a few years as well (some may find it already predictable/ bland now).

You do pay little bit premium on the Q5 so will be interesting to see how well it will sell in this recession given that Lexus/Acura is much cheaper. Difficult to predict though.

I currently drive a Lexus RX350 (what can I say, it drives like a boat but is a very reliable & comfortable automobile) which is fully paid off so I have the luxury of waiting. But I would be willing to buy a Q5 in the next few months if I found the right price. Forums like these are an invaluable resource to get a sense of current market prices. So thanks in advance to people posting their offers.

Interesting thought. My first Q5 quote was to a fourtitude member. There was a discount. a decent one too. If it comes down to 30 bucks a month...maybe its not the right car for you. Do you really think we're all buying R8's with the crazy money were making on you? I'm by no means a greedy person, but do you really blame the salesperson for wanting more than a flat on a brand new model? An Audi isn't cheap, stop trying to make them cheap. I'll give a deal to anyone who wants an Q5. Not sticker, but definatly not invoice.

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Bring me your lease returns...we need used Audi's

the lease rates are what they are. if you can't afford it, then you can't afford it. As salespeople we make a flat commission no matter what the car sells for. Once we lose any profitability on the car, that flat stays the same. We are not pulling in $80-$100k a year selling you all A4's and A3's that pay us about $200 each. But the 2009 Aston Martin V8 Vantage Roadster i sold this week certainly made up for a lot of Audi's

Modified by ProjectA3 at 5:51 PM 3/10/2009

Bell quoted the $590 I mentioned in my earlier post, but I went with DCH at $599 as I still think Bell had something shady in the deal that was going to bite me in the a** when it came time to finalize all the paperwork. DCH was completely upfront and open and no hidden charges and knew the product the best of all the dealers in my area. Could not recommend them more.

You are a saleman, you have no power in term of giving discount or anything. You have to bring the customer's offer to your sale manager and he'll give you his offer so you can bring back to your customer. Don't act like you are more than a saleman.