$3000 more for the hybrid model shouldn't be an issue, $3000 tacked onto the base MSRP doesn't make much of a difference to your payments. In the end the hybrid model starts paying you back.
yea thats not bad at all over the course of a 3 year lease its an extra $83/mo. Although all that shifts when you start factoring in money down...$3000 more for the hybrid model shouldn't be an issue, $3000 tacked onto the base MSRP doesn't make much of a difference to your payments. In the end the hybrid model starts paying you back.
yea but you just used the hybrid premium divided by 36 mo. You need to factor in money down or else your math is skewed.a three year lease, with 83 bucks extra per month, will you get your money back in fuel savings? I highly doubt that... let's do a little math here:
for 30k miles, 26mpg vs 22mpg is only a savings of 733 bucks, if paying 3.5 per gallon...
83 x36 months, you just paid 2988 to save 733....
if you buy the hybrid, you will have to drive it for 135k miles to get back the 3k you paid...
infiniti's other hybrids - the Q50 and Q70 (M35) - are about increased performance. perhaps they should have gone that route with the QX60 as well. come to think of it, on the Q50, the price difference of the hybrid is a few grand (as in the QX60), it gets slightly better gas mileage (as in the QX60) AND it gets better performance (UNLIKE the QX60). what gives?you save 24.5 bucks per every thousand miles driven on a hybrid qx60...
so dont buy a hybrid to save money... buy it if you care about leaving a small carbon foot print to save the environment...
or if range between fill ups matters to you...
so far all the short term tests of their hybrid systems seem to prove that it's good, just need to wait for the long term test reports from owners and reviewers.I think I'll wait until the technology has been around a bit longer. Nissan is still pretty new with hybrid vehicles, but I know they are pretty good.