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I'm quite happy with my decision to lease (Ioniq 5). Leaves me with a win win decision at the end of the term.
This is an odd example to write an article on though. "We can't find a catch," they say. Mate, 95,000 mi is like 8x the typical mileage on a car by year. It might as well be 8 years old, which makes the pricing much more reasonable.
If the car will make it to 200,000 miles, you'd expect a used one with 95,000 miles to be worth ~50% of original sales price.
And that's just the baseline. Some vehicles hold value exceptionally well, like my Toyota Tacoma, the used prices are absurd, it's worth something crazy like 75%+ what we paid for it in 2021.
Not so for a lot of EVs. I threw 3 examples into the article (Audi e-Tron, Dodge Charger Daytona, and then I guess the Ioniq 6 itself, the sporty ones with a speed markup). It's newsworthy just because it's unusual, it's like the used market is saying something about the vehicle is not worth what the manufacturer thought it was worth on day one.
I took my Jeep (Grand Cherokee) to the dealer before the warranty expires because it is clicking and popping from the front. It took them 2 days to decide it must be the front CV, meanwhile sales kept calling trying to convince us we wanted to "upgrade" to a 2024 model with almost 40k miles on it... the 2023 we brought in doesn't even have 24k yet.
Edit: I don't know how they could have thought anyone would go for that.
They are used to Jeep customers.