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I got the same email, and when I tried to sign up this morning, the first question it asked was how many email addresses I check at least once per week. (Why anyone would care, I have no idea.) I answered one, and the site told me I didn't meet their requirements and ended the sign up process...

Wait a second -- the finance guy at a car dealership LIED to customer!?!?!? This simply has to be the first time that's ever happened in the history of mankind!!! (In case anyone is missing my point, my sarcasm is directed at car dealerships, and not anyone participating in this thread.)

Congrats on the new Leaf and a great deal. I suspect you'll love it, hopefully as much as my wife and I love ours. A quick heads up based on our experience, though: Even after a couple of years of ownership you'll still break out into a Joker-esque laughing fit, ala Nicholson in the 1989...

Time for yet another follow-up to the clown show that is NMAC/dealer/customer communication. As mentioned above, I recently bought my 2013 Leaf, on June 25, to be exact. I was never notified by my dealer or NMAC or Nissan about the lease buyout promotion; I learned of it online and had to...

I'd love to see the S get a boost, but your comment is the first I've seen anyone mention it. Is this based on anything aside from it obviously being a good idea for Nissan, their customers, and the environment?

Right now, the big unknown re:2016 Leaf is the pricing. I think it's safe to assume, based on the online reports we've seen, that the SV and SL trim levels will get a 25% bigger battery pack. But what will Nissan do about price? I think that if they create a 25% difference in the range, then...

Sorry about the car/carS typo. Yes, it was cars.com. I just looked for in-stock Leafs, and then clicked on the "Special offers" link for one of the cars. (For some reason not all the cars in the list have the "Special offers" link.) I verified this just now, and it still says $5k until...

I don't know if anyone mentioned it on this board yet, but it seems that the NMAC discount for buying (not leasing) a Leaf has been bumped from its long-running $3,500 to $5,000. Go to car.com, search on Leafs, and then in the entry for one of the cars click on the "Special offers" links and...

As I posted elsewhere on this site, I just bought my 2013 S via this buyout promotion, and I found there's quite a lack of communication between dealers and Nissan/NMAC. I had to educate my dealer about the promotion, including getting the NMAC bulletin #, and even then, my dealer's NMAC...

I just completed the purchase of my leased 2013 Leaf S, and wanted to pass along a couple of points: 1. Dealing with my local dealer and NMAC was frustrating, to say the least. It felt like the car buying equivalent of the classic "Who's on First" comedy routine. My advice: Be persistent and...

I think they're facing three major constraints: 1. What fits in the existing cars. (Any redesign this close to the Leaf II is out of the question.) 2. What do they want to keep producing after the Leaf II comes out. Like a car redesign, it makes no sense to make a new pack for a limited run...

My guess is that no matter how accurate or inaccurate the published stories are, Nissan's position would be to say nothing. That way they're not establishing a precedent about commenting on products before they're announced. But my guess is that what we've heard so far -- S soldiers on with...

If anyone is having difficulty, as I am, getting their dealer to find out the NMAC promotion exists, tell them to look up bulletin 15-1-2064v3. This is a number I got from a woman at NMAC within the last half hour. FWIW, when I told her that both the dealer and their NMAC representative were...

Latest bizarro world detail: The local finance guy now tells me, via e-mail sent last night, that his NMAC contact had never heard of the $6,500 promotion and she was pursuing it "from her people in Dallas". This has gone from being a relatively simple transaction to a parody of bureaucratic...

Yeah, I didn't think it would be either. After all, these guys are in the business of selling cars, so why should it be such a hassle to, you know, buy a car from them??? One other detail: In chatting with the finance guy, he confirmed that the "doc fee" would be $75, which happens to be the...

I'm currently waiting to hear from the finance guy at my dealer. My wife and I stopped in this morning, and he said he would have to get a confirmation from his "Nissan rep" (which I confirmed meant his contact at NMAC, not the Nissan Mothership) of the post-$6,500-discount residual, since the...

I've seen references to it varying, but I've never seen a summary of who gets what offer. And the offer also varies with the year of your lease. In general, I think NMAC has done a poor job of handling this situation, even beyond the variable offer amount. Assuming I can get the details...

Honestly, I don't know why the dealer should be involved, except to fill out DMV paperwork, but I've seen comments here and elsewhere online where people talk about having to work with their (clueless about the buyout offer) dealer. I plan to drop by my dealer Monday morning (since phone calls...

I strongly suggest that anyone considering a lease buyout do their research to see what the law is in their state regarding "documentation fees". After seeing the discussion in this thread, I did some googling about and found that this fee varies a lot by state, and that some states limit the...

I'm very close to taking the $6,500 lease buyout offer, but wanted to remind people here of another potentially nasty detail: The bogus "documentation fee" many dealers charge. I saw a comment from someone in another thread on this board saying that his/her dealer charged $800 for this, which...