I'm not sure if we are entering or exiting Cloud Cuckoo Land.
From AutoBlog, September 6:
Until the end of September, Lessees will get an incentive of up to 10 grand, depending on their leased model.
Incentives up to $10,000
Audi released a bulletin to its dealers detailing a new program available to BEV lessees. The promotion is available for the month of September 2026, and it will give lessees a buy-out incentive of up to $10,000 for certain models.EV lease clients across the United States will be able to avail themselves of this promotion from now until the end of the month, and this is good news for lease customers who’ve grown quite fond of their Audi BEVs and want to keep them even after their lease agreement....
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Possibly related at Medium, August 30:
Man’s $160,000 Porsche Taycan is now ‘worthless’ as dealership refuses to take it back
A man who spent $160,000 on a Porsche Taycan tried to trade it in for a used 911 and was told the dealership did not even want it back.
Lee Alexander Davey, a UK YouTuber who posts as The MacMaster, has been documenting his financial nightmare with the electric Porsche for months.
After finally deciding he had had enough, he took the car to be valued and discovered what many EV owners are now finding out the hard way.
“I’m basically left with a car that’s worthless,” he said. “Even the dealership does not want this car back.”
The valuations
He tried everywhere.
Porsche offered him around $59,000.
WeBuyAnyCar came in at roughly $53,000.
CarWow could not do better than $35,000.
The Porsche dealership he originally bought it from valued it at around $54,000 but then told him they were no longer accepting used Taycans as trade-ins.
They did not want the car at any price....
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Bringing to mind a long ago vignette. From the intro to a 2011 post:
...I'm reminded of a situation I watched back in the day. A trader sold a position to another firm a few minutes before a trading halt. The news was negative. The buyer D.K.'ed (Don't Know) the trade, meaning we'd still own the position, at which point the head of the firm got on the phone and told his counterpart "I don't want the shit, whyd'ya you think I sold it to you?"
On the other hand, from April 2020:
The '98 Porsche Electric
1898.
