The first Fiat 500e electric vehicles are being delivered on schedule and as promised. The first deliveries started around mid month. Due to the low lease price of $199 per month, the 500e is basically sold out for the remainder of 2013. However, when customers arrive at dealerships to finalize paperwork and pick up their Fiat 500e, many are being counter-offered on the lease.
While Fiat advertised a lease payment of $199, many dealers are counter-offering up to, and even higher than $300 per month. In fine print on Fiat’s literature, there is a disclaimer that says “Offer requires dealer contribution… Dealers actual terms may vary.” Fiat is offering $1500 in lease cash to sell the car, but Fiat is also advertising the cost of the lease as $1500 less than the actual cost hoping the dealer will contribute its lease cash to the deal.
Members of the Fiat 500e forum are not too happy, and they’re even calling on dealers to let them know if they would stick with the $199 lease.
For $199 this is a great price for this car. I pretty sure im trading in my ford SUV for this machine.
You must have missed the part in the article that says the 500e is sold out.
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We looked at one day before yesterday after riding in a friends and purchased another yesterday that had just arrived! Beautiful Silver 500e E-Sport with black interior and a sunroof… Love the car.
Another reason to cheer Elon Musk on.
Let’s eliminate the dern dealers. They seem to foul up deals.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the Tesla cars and wouldn’t mind owning one if it weren’t for the price point. But people who had made initial preorders on the Tesla Roadsters back in the day saw their price increase as they waited for their cars to be delivered to them. Granted they were sinking financially at the time and were needing to boost profit margins. Here it looks like the dealers are just trying to make an extra buck. Either way everybody just fouls up.
http://www.dailytech.com/Update+Tesla+Motors+Raises+Roadster+Price+Angers+Those+Who+PreOrdered/article14002.htm
That’s why I bought a LEAF. Couldn’t be happier. Been driving 25 years and this is the most fun I ever had in a car!
Just ordered mine yesterday, got one right away since someone else pulled out I guess (despite 40 person waiting list, go figure). The car is in transit, I should have it in the next 2 weeks.
Cost is $338/month including taxes, zero down. I will get $2500 back from CA, I will need to spend $1000 on the Level 2 charger at home – and all in all this is a great deal since I will save about $250/month in gas and I will also save over $200/month in toll road fees since I can carpool on the 5/405 instead of paying for the 73 – I am stoked 🙂
I’m keeping my Ram truck though as my beach mobile…
Where did you buy the car. I’d like to get the same deal. Thx.
Hey Rodger!
If you’re still looking for one, we got an incredible deal from David Engles at Niello Fiat in Sacramento. They bought out our Honda lease and we drove our beautiful electric orange 500e for no money down and under $300 a month.
We purchased from Autonation Roseville Fiat. No dealer markup. Really easy to work with and nice people. Monique and Shawne are who we dealt with. Ping them they have a few coming in that are not spoken for. Tell them David and Mary sent you 🙂