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Old 06-11-2013, 01:05 PM
BAVBMW BAVBMW is offline
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Originally Posted by spdrun View Post
Could you lease the car in CA and "move out of state" within a week or two? If you have a leased car in CA and decide to move to TX, do you have to prematurely return it?
Possibly. Many of the leases have residency restrictions. CA mandates different emmissions than most everywhere else, and part of this includes mandates that companies sell/lease certain percentages of:
"zero"
"partial zero"/Pzev(one of my favorite terms...)
"super ultra low emmission vehicle"/Sulev
"ultra low emmission vehicle"/Ulev
and of course, the lowly "low emmission vehicle"/Lev

So companies will at times offer vehicles at significant discounts in order to meet their quota(s). Sometimes there are even Zip code limitations. I knew quite a few people back in the '90s who were upset with Ford over some deals on half ton trucks. Seemed the trucks they wanted were available cheaper to socal city residents than to the farmers who needed them. Listen closely to the legalese at the end of some car commercials, you'll hear the phrase "Residency restrictions may apply" sometimes.

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