06-21-2016, 09:48 PM | #1 |
Enlisted Member
23
Rep 41
Posts
Drives: 10 E90 335xDrive
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Tigard, OR
|
I Need Business Vehicle Advice
Hey everyone, I am looking for some advice on what vehicle to lease for my business.
I am going to be opening a restaurant. Its a Fast Casual Mexican franchise, and I have signed a deal to open a minimum of 5 locations. After a 2 years process trying to find the right property to lease, We finally found a location that will work, we have signed our lease documents and hopefully we will be open by the middle of September. I also have 2 more locations coming down the pipeline in the next year or so. In our business we do catering orders. Not a huge amount, but enough that it is a good idea to have a vehicle specifically for delivering those orders. I will also be using it to drive from location to location ( the second location is 50 miles from the first), plus it will be wrapped in a graphic so it will be a great advertisement. I have trying to decided what vehicle to lease that will work well for what I need. I am looking for something that has a flat cargo space, so wagon, hatchback, or small suv. The rear seats need to fold mostly flat (a slight slight angle will be ok), it needs to have decent cargo room or at least decent space for pans of food. It also needs to get decent gas mileage since I will be driving it quite a bit. I do not want to spend more than $450 a month on a lease (36 months 15K miles or more a year). Im looking for a normal average vehicle, so dont suggest a 328i wagon or something. LOL I car that is a wagon or hatchback will work the best, but I am also open to a small suv. It does not have to be AWD. I live in Portland, OR so it is not necessary despite what some people in this city believe. What do you guys/gals think? Any advice? Just to narrow it down. I refuse to get anything Toyota, or anything from FCA (Fiat, Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Ram). Right now the front runner is the Ford C Max. It is a really cool car with lots of cargo room, cool gadgets, and it gets 42 mph city, plus they have awesome lease deals.
__________________
My Rides:
2010 335xi- MHD, Custom Painted Style 67's, Super Sports, 2007 GMC Yukon Denali, 69 Chevelle Malibu, 69 Chevy C20 (Project Truck), 77 Chevy K20 |
06-21-2016, 10:55 PM | #3 | |
Enlisted Member
23
Rep 41
Posts
Drives: 10 E90 335xDrive
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Tigard, OR
|
Quote:
__________________
My Rides:
2010 335xi- MHD, Custom Painted Style 67's, Super Sports, 2007 GMC Yukon Denali, 69 Chevelle Malibu, 69 Chevy C20 (Project Truck), 77 Chevy K20 |
|
Appreciate
0
|
06-21-2016, 11:41 PM | #5 |
Major General
3140
Rep 5,583
Posts |
I don't know catering but it seems to me if your transporting food you don't want a cargo area with windows. Windows would let in sunlight and create radiation heat, glass may be able to cut down on UV wavelength but not the infrared. Even if your transporting warm food not sure windows are the right way to go.
|
Appreciate
0
|
06-22-2016, 12:03 AM | #6 | |
Enlisted Member
23
Rep 41
Posts
Drives: 10 E90 335xDrive
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Tigard, OR
|
Quote:
__________________
My Rides:
2010 335xi- MHD, Custom Painted Style 67's, Super Sports, 2007 GMC Yukon Denali, 69 Chevelle Malibu, 69 Chevy C20 (Project Truck), 77 Chevy K20 |
|
Appreciate
0
|
06-22-2016, 10:09 AM | #8 |
Major General
4545
Rep 8,942
Posts |
You can get a 2016 exec demo 3-series sport wagon for very little $ right now. My dealer has one $55k MSRP listed for $44k with I believe 3k on it. Would lease well under $400 a month.
__________________
2022 Macan S
2016 F31 328i xDrive Sport Wagon 2006 E46 330ci ZHP Convertible |
Appreciate
0
|
06-22-2016, 10:44 AM | #9 | |
Enlisted Member
23
Rep 41
Posts
Drives: 10 E90 335xDrive
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Tigard, OR
|
Quote:
__________________
My Rides:
2010 335xi- MHD, Custom Painted Style 67's, Super Sports, 2007 GMC Yukon Denali, 69 Chevelle Malibu, 69 Chevy C20 (Project Truck), 77 Chevy K20 |
|
Appreciate
0
|
06-23-2016, 12:52 AM | #12 | |
Enlisted Member
23
Rep 41
Posts
Drives: 10 E90 335xDrive
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Tigard, OR
|
Quote:
1. Cost- leasing a vehicle is much cheaper than financing. Our margins are going to be very thin and we don't want to spend anymore than we have to. 2. Taxes- there are better tax advantages to leasing than buying. Unless you buy a vehicle over 6000 gvw which is a weird loophole. Now once the business is up and going and in 3 years when the lease comes up then I will most likely end up buying something for myself and use it for business enough to benefit from the tax advantages
__________________
My Rides:
2010 335xi- MHD, Custom Painted Style 67's, Super Sports, 2007 GMC Yukon Denali, 69 Chevelle Malibu, 69 Chevy C20 (Project Truck), 77 Chevy K20 |
|
Appreciate
0
|
06-25-2016, 09:54 AM | #13 |
General
19494
Rep 19,902
Posts |
Why not go with one of the new small commercial delivery vans offered by Dodge, Ford, or Nissan? Seems to fit the bill perfectly and all are designed for heavy commercial delivery use and low maintenance costs. Throw in vinyl silk screen graphics (easily removable upon lease turn in) and you have a mobile billboard for your business. You can lease these vehicles as turnkey for the purpose (i.e. warm food delivery catering) if you go to a fleet-service provider. They'll provide the vehicle to spec with the necessary storage apparatus for food and add the graphics as well all for a single monthly lease cost, and write-offable as business expense.
Good luck with the new endeavor.
__________________
A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
Last edited by Efthreeoh; 06-25-2016 at 10:02 AM.. |
Appreciate
0
|
06-25-2016, 02:07 PM | #15 | |
Enlisted Member
23
Rep 41
Posts
Drives: 10 E90 335xDrive
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Tigard, OR
|
Quote:
__________________
My Rides:
2010 335xi- MHD, Custom Painted Style 67's, Super Sports, 2007 GMC Yukon Denali, 69 Chevelle Malibu, 69 Chevy C20 (Project Truck), 77 Chevy K20 |
|
Appreciate
0
|
Post Reply |
Bookmarks |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
|
|