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Originally Posted by chrisny
Isn't that just 1% lower residual than the '13's, and same money factor?
I don't see how that's so terrible for a brand new model, first month out.
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From a purely business perspective for BMW it makes sense since the demand is there for the new model. In real life you cant convince any thinking person person that in 3 years a final run 2013 X5 would retain 1% more of its value than a whole new model that came out just a month later. I would argue that there are a truck load more F30's than X5's out there and yet the residuals came out at 60/61% and have stayed there.