I'm coming up on the end of my lease and thinking of buying the car as I only have 17,000 miles.

Anyone know know if Audi is willing to negotiate the buyout given the current economy.

 

If they aren't able to sell it to anyone they will lower the price. If they can sell it at the price they want, the will. For example, when I bought my A6, I got it for $1400 off because no one was buying it as it was a MT6 A6 which not everyone wants.

 

In Short Audi doesn't negotiate lease buyouts.

 

Not sure about Audi, but we just bought out my wife's XC90 and got a reduced price - after we were told that Volvo doesn't negotiate buyouts.

 

It never hurts to ask and make a lowball offer. The worst they can say is "no".

 

Just offer to buy it for a certain price (fair one ofcourse) if they say no then act like you're going to buy a car from them for MUCH cheaper. I did that with my Nissan Xterra during my lease (6mo into it) and they fell for it! They called me back 2 days later and offered a price lower than the actual buyout price (but more than I offered), I think I save around 1-2k.

Just try it out and see.

A few things to keep in mind.

1. This will work... Don't say because its a Nissan it's different, in fact, this was a 1st gen and only 6 months into the lease and I made the offer while hundreds of other people were on a waiting list for the same (top of the line model) X.
2. They'll take more money than less. I think the Frontier was like 5-6 grand less.
3. You probably wont get a deal off the rip, they may have to call you back.