Okay rant coming.
Okay rant coming. I just came from a studio and like the Spider a lot, enough to talk about trading my Abarth 500, which is a go-kart fun car. But after dealing with Kia over a lease for a $33k SUV that gets superb ratings Kia's lease absolutely kills the financing of Fiat's lease. For $30 less I can drive away the spider, hold on $30 less? - something seems off to me. I did a zero down, zero drive away for a $33k SUV with $5500 off in incentives. Spider is $27.8k I get loyalty bonuses, work for a preferential company, so more discounts, yet the lease is $30 less with an extra $1000 down? I even called the finance manager at Kia to check my facts and they were exactly right. Money Factor was slightly more in Fiat, but about 0.5%, not enough to cost that much. Acquisition fees were high, residuals were inline with the Kia deal too, nothing earth shattering to throw off the comparison - but it was enough to make me think I was getting taken so I left the car and went home unhappy. Wife (applying the negative logic) came with me, so emotion was not enough to sway the sale.
Options sucked also, there's hardly any manual cars, no Arbarths in manual at all. Getting told manuals are dying off - in a sports car that's terrible news. Okay paddles and semi auto is okay but I find I'm driving like Miss friggin daisy in an auto Spider, just not got a soul if you can't shift car is soul-less.