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Old Aug 9, 2004 | 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by fortknox82
I guess i still dont quite understand how a lease works b/c for me to lease an srt-4 for 3 yrs it was going to cost me $379 a mth and that car was stickered at 22844 where a crossfire is stickered at about 10k higher than that and the monthly payment is less on a crossfire??
Its all about depreciation and markup.

1) The crossfire (theoretically) will not depreciate as bad as a Neon.
2) The crossfire, since based on a pre-existing platform, has quite a bit of markup (The SLK has already recooped the engineering and development costs for the crossfire). Therefore chrysler is willing to provide a large capital cost reduction (aka, reduce the sticker price for lease)
 
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