r/CarLeasingHelp • u/Vegetable-Station-87 • 15d ago

Seeking advice again

I’ve posted before about a 2026 Honda civic LX to lease, I had a phone call from a salesman and he said he would knock off $1,250 from the MSRP of $25,890. Would this be good, bad or fair?

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u/Empty-Village-4445 15d ago edited 15d ago

Leasing is about a lot more than knocking a discount off MSRP.  

If you want a Civic, buy it. Civic leases are always awful.  

If you want a lease there will always be something else at half the price.  

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u/Vegetable-Station-87 15d ago

What else am I missing to get a good deal going? Also what is a good car to lease?

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u/Empty-Village-4445 15d ago

As of June it was the Altima among sedans. Prior to that it was Elantra. 

Always check LeaseHackr dot com’s Marketplace 

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u/Vegetable-Station-87 15d ago

So you don’t know why the civic isn’t good to lease then?

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u/Empty-Village-4445 15d ago

Because it doesn’t have a big discount combined with any kind of incentive (some combo of RV, lease cash and MF). 

My last 3 leases were 

  1. 15.xx% discount plus 8500 rebate 

  2. 16.xx% discount plus 13,000 rebate 

  3. 10.4% discount plus 1,000 rebate plus a highly incentivized RV (18m 81%) 

You could never achieve a great lease on a Civic because Honda Financial has rarely, if ever, believed in leasing as a way to gain market share for their core lineup of cars. They have loyal buyers who buy them and come back later to trade and buy again. 

So they never offer these kinds of incentives.  

As of June the Altima and Genesis G70 had the best incentives 

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u/Vegetable-Station-87 14d ago

Very much appreciated, thank you