Leased a Cadillac yesterday.....

[Bruce330cic]

Leased a 2014 ATS 3.6 RWD Premium yesterday. Silver exterior over black interior. I wasn't planning on leasing a new car with 4 more months on the BMW lease, but the Cadillac lease deals on the remaining 2014 ATS' are just too good to pass by. My drive off was just 1st month payment, the usual dealer fees, and registration and my monthly lease fee is $485 including tax for 39 months/12K miles a year! On a car with an MSRP of almost $50K!

We're picking it up in a few hours. I'm excited but this car has so many doohickies on it, it is going to take me a while to figure everything out. I really liked the ride and steering feel on my test drives and the magnetic ride control system is awesome. The interior is really classy and will be a nice place to spend my time creeping at 13 miles an hour into work and back home again....

After 5 BMWs, 2 GTIs, 1 Honda and 1 Golf, I'm kind of weirdly excited to have my first American car.

[JST]

Originally Posted by Bruce330cic

Leased a 2014 ATS 3.6 RWD Premium yesterday. Silver exterior over black interior. I wasn't planning on leasing a new car with 4 more months on the BMW lease, but the Cadillac lease deals on the remaining 2014 ATS' are just too good to pass by. My drive off was just 1st month payment, the usual dealer fees, and registration and my monthly lease fee is $485 including tax for 39 months/12K miles a year! On a car with an MSRP of almost $50K!

We're picking it up in a few hours. I'm excited but this car has so many doohickies on it, it is going to take me a while to figure everything out. I really liked the ride and steering feel on my test drives and the magnetic ride control system is awesome. The interior is really classy and will be a nice place to spend my time creeping at 13 miles an hour into work and back home again....

After 5 BMWs and one VW GTI, I'm kind of weirdly excited to have my first American car.

Nice, congrats. That does sound like a compelling deal. I need to drive an ATS at some point.

[clyde]

Enjoy! I think it'll be fun, but interested to hear how you feel about it as time goes by.

[ZBB]

Sounds like a great deal. The ATS is a well designed car -- seems to fix the weight issues my '08 CTS had...

But one warning -- be prepared to be disappointed by the service experience. That was probably the worst thing I had to deal with when I had the CTS. Things like not having the car ready at the promised time (I had to wait in a 70s-era waiting room for a couple hours once since I didn't have a loaner...), and removal of my basic chrome license plate frame in order to put the dealer frame on (and they tossed the chrome one -- so I had to get them to buy me a new one)..

[bren]

Cool. That makes like 3 of us that own GM products now.

My local Chevy dealer just did a remodel and the waiting room area is easily on par with the BMW/Porsche/Maserati dealer.

[lemming]

Originally Posted by Bruce330cic

Leased a 2014 ATS 3.6 RWD Premium yesterday. Silver exterior over black interior. I wasn't planning on leasing a new car with 4 more months on the BMW lease, but the Cadillac lease deals on the remaining 2014 ATS' are just too good to pass by. My drive off was just 1st month payment, the usual dealer fees, and registration and my monthly lease fee is $485 including tax for 39 months/12K miles a year! On a car with an MSRP of almost $50K!

We're picking it up in a few hours. I'm excited but this car has so many doohickies on it, it is going to take me a while to figure everything out. I really liked the ride and steering feel on my test drives and the magnetic ride control system is awesome. The interior is really classy and will be a nice place to spend my time creeping at 13 miles an hour into work and back home again....

After 5 BMWs, 2 GTIs, 1 Honda and 1 Golf, I'm kind of weirdly excited to have my first American car.

dang.

that's a good deal with no huge cap reduction deposit!

[blee]

Originally Posted by bren

Cool. That makes like 3 of us that own GM products now.

Just realized that in my 20ish-year driving history, I have owned a GM product for all but six. And I've owned an American marque for all but two or three.

[bren]

I'm Jeep'less for the first time since 1994, but I still have american cars - although I think the truck was made in Mexico.

[Jeff_DML]

congrats, big change from your previous car

[blee]

Originally Posted by bren

I'm Jeep'less for the first time since 1994, but I still have american cars - although I think the truck was made in Mexico.

So were/are a couple of mine, hence 'Merican marque. Really, if you want a very American car, you almost need to buy a Toyota these days.