# Weird car lease terms **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 10, 2018, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-car-lease-terms/810364 "2018-03-10T22:59:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-car-lease-terms/810364/1 "2018-03-10T22:59:02Z")
I just ran across this post in a Facebook “buy & sell” group, from a car dealership in NY state : > [@](#): > > Lease a Loaded premier volt for 149 a month for 39 months with just the tax, acquisition fee , 1st Payment down. > **Must have a foreign car owned or leased registered to your household. Don’t have to trade.** > If not it’s 199 a month. > 10,000 miles a year > Car has 4268 miles on it > Miles won’t be penalized in lease > > (and several lines describing the specific car) (bolding mine) (“Loaded premier volt” means a Chevrolet Volt Premier) How common is this kind of offer, conditional on foreign car ownership? Is this the dealer’s initiative or does GM actually have programs like this? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2018, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-car-lease-terms/810364/2 "2018-03-11T01:32:33Z")
I just looked at the lease programs on the Chevrolet website for the Volt. One of them included this qualification, “Current Owners and Lessees of 1999 or newer Daewoo, Daihatsu, Honda, Hyundai, Isuzu, Kia, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Scion, Subaru, Suzuki and Toyota vehicles”, It sounds like they want to attract people who normally buy Japanese cars. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2018, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-car-lease-terms/810364/3 "2018-03-11T01:35:24Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I just looked at the lease programs on the Chevrolet website for the Volt. One of them included this qualification, “Current Owners and Lessees of 1999 or newer Daewoo, Daihatsu, Honda, Hyundai, Isuzu, Kia, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Scion, Subaru, Suzuki and Toyota vehicles”, It sounds like they want to attract people who normally buy Japanese cars. in industry parlance they’re called “conquest” customers. i.e. people wooed away from a competing brand. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2018, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-car-lease-terms/810364/4 "2018-03-11T03:18:02Z")
Pretty mean feat driving a Daihatsu newer than 1999, considering they pulled out of the US 1992-1993 or so. In our global economy, most Toyotas are almost completely made in the US. Meanwhile many “American” cars are made elsewhere. Chevrolet seems maybe better than Ford, but e.g. the Avalanche is Mexican. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2018, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-car-lease-terms/810364/5 "2018-03-11T03:36:37Z")
It’s not a matter of country of origin, but that some car buyers only ever buy one brand’s cars. My last three cars, for instance, were Hondas. Some people only ever buy Ford pickups, rather than GMs. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2018, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-car-lease-terms/810364/6 "2018-03-11T03:41:28Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > It’s not a matter of country of origin, but that some car buyers only ever buy one brand’s cars. My last three cars, for instance, were Hondas. Some people only ever buy Ford pickups, rather than GMs. You scrape it just right, you can get the Calvin peeing on the Chevy logo right off for your next truck.