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Thank you very much for sharing your recent lease deal! Extremely helpful! May I ask how much the down payment was?
The more I read here, the more it seems $3000-4000 off sticker is attainable.
Should have mentioned that part. I actually did put $5k down.
i am in Utah and I just leased a grey AWD IS 350. They originally offered MSRP, and by the end of it, they took almost 4k off MSRP. Let the record show the car had been sitting almost a week before i went to look at it and negotiating also took another week after that. i think they were anxious to get it off the lot since they werent used to these sitting for so long. I believe my money factor is around .0023, the residual is 27k after 39 months and my payment is $614 on the dot.
Very similar to my experience a month ago, although I purchased instead of leased.
And here we go! It's a 2023 F-Sport Ultrasonic with white. Light on the options.
Was a tough round of negotiating, with a lot of moving parts. Had to get it from their sister dealer who had $2k worth of junk add-ons, work on amount off of sticker, APR, rebates, and the trade. Took a few hours, but it worked out well in the end.
Thanks all for the comments earlier. It truly was helpful in gauging where I should have been with the deal. Will take more pics later on...
And here we go! It's a 2023 F-Sport Ultrasonic with white. Light on the options.
Was a tough round of negotiating, with a lot of moving parts. Had to get it from their sister dealer who had $2k worth of junk add-ons, work on amount off of sticker, APR, rebates, and the trade. Took a few hours, but it worked out well in the end.
Thanks all for the comments earlier. It truly was helpful in gauging where I should have been with the deal. Will take more pics later on...
Wow never seen the white before, that is seriously clean. Definitely gotta share more pics of that interior
Negotiating is an annoying hassle but on big ticket items can pay off nicely, congrats.
OurIS 350 F Sport just passed 1000 miles should be well broken in, just did my first full throttle runs to redline… wow it sounds amazing even with the fake engine noise turned off. Pulls really hard at higher revs.
@BBQapple "with the fake engine noise turned off" ?? did you remove that piece from the engine, or is there a button I'm missing? Coming from the 4GS, that fake intake noise was part of the experience, but there was no button to turn it off.
@BBQapple "with the fake engine noise turned off" ?? did you remove that piece from the engine, or is there a button I'm missing? Coming from the 4GS, that fake intake noise was part of the experience, but there was no button to turn it off.
To the left of the steering wheel there is a scroll wheel called ASC. Scroll it all the way down until it clicks to the off position. The click is crucial for it to be truly off.
@BBQapple "with the fake engine noise turned off" ?? did you remove that piece from the engine, or is there a button I'm missing? Coming from the 4GS, that fake intake noise was part of the experience, but there was no button to turn it off.
Originally Posted by TipsyTonio
To the left of the steering wheel there is a scroll wheel called ASC. Scroll it all the way down until it clicks to the off position. The click is crucial for it to be truly off.
Yep. I hated how journalists would repeatedly state that it couldn't be turned off in reviews. Like, isn't this your job? It did take me a couple days to discover the "click", but then I took to Instagram and posted it up.
With the ASC off, my IS 350 sounded exactly like my former IS 300 AWD F Sport. it had a nice growl above 4000 RPM.
Same thing is true in the IS 500. You can turn ASC off, and around 3000 RPM or so the intake box opens up and lets more sound in (and more air in, more importantly). So, you still get a lot of intake roar even with it off. ASC is completely unnecessary if you ask me.
lol…TIL there’s a button for fake sound. That’s fun. I actually like the sound, probably gonna leave it on.
If you get an aftermarket CAI, does that button still work?
Well, it isn't a "button", it's a dial. Here is a photo of mine.
I normally have mine all the way off, but just turned it up a little so that it's more clear as to how it works.
If you turn it all the way down gently, it'll stop moving. Then, if you push/turn it down again, it'll "click" into an off position, and the little white line on the dial will be invisible.
And yes, it would still work if you had an aftermarket intake because ASC is piped in through speakers, not actual sound from the engine bay.
Car has a great natural intake and exhaust sound already, at least my 350 does. And once you hear the fake noise on top of the real noise and can hear the difference, you can’t un hear it.
on a lot of cars it can’t be turned off which makes me not even consider buying the car
04-04-23, 07:34 AM
It did take me a couple days to discover the "click", but then I took to Instagram and posted it up.
