Find Infiniti Dealers in Tempe, Arizona

I leased a G35 yesterday with premium, splash & cargo net. I offered invoice + $100 the day before and they agreed. When I got there yesterday the deal became "their" invoice + 100. "Their" invoice added their costs for tint, paint sealant and door guards totalling $288. I balked and said that I offered $100 over the real invoice, not their dummied up invoice. They refused to budge, so I figured I was still getting a good deal so I relented. Their factory invoice was $50 cheaper then Edmunds because of a lower destination charge. So in reality I got the car for $338 over published invoice with everything figured in. The tint in AZ is a must, door guards don't hurt and the paint sealant a waste. I payed $1930 up front which included first month, tags, acq fee, and $369 doc fee. The payment is $469 including 7.95% tax per month for 36/12. $400 of the lease loyalty was used to pay the last lease payment on my 05 G35. During the signing of the paperwork I got an email from a dealer in Mission Viejo, CA. He had agreed to enhance the deal he had already offered me two days before. It took him two days to respond that he would pay the $400 lease payment on my G35. Upfront I would only pay first months payment, $45 doc and $50 temp permit to drive to AZ. The acq fee was rolled into the monthly payment of $449 including tax. In all I would have saved close to $2000 for the term of the lease. I showed the salesman the deal and he told me there was no way they could match it. I said I needed a few minutes and went outside to give my wife a call. After much discussion I decided that I had a good offer in Scottsdale, I wouldn't have to put 400 miles on my new car right away and spend 14 hours driving to go to CA to get a new car. When I walked back in the salesman gave me a $100 gas card to relieve the pain ;) I love my new G, much nicer then my 05. Few disappointments. The blue tooth doesn't work like a blue tooth headset. With a headset I can use voice dialing for any phone number in my phone book, no voice programming needed, the G35 blue tooth does not offer that feature. The premium package stereo is still not that great. I test drove an Accord coupe that had a better sounding stereo. XM says their sound is CD quality, not even close. It seems a step below FM quality. Glad to be in another G for 3 more years!

Warming up doesn't have only to do with the coolant -- warming up the oil is what gets the fuel mileage up where it belongs. It'll take most of an hour at highway speeds and longer than that around town. "Back in the day," I equipped my MGB with an oil temperature gauge, prior to when I moved to Edmonton. It gets cold in Edmonton. I learned that it took as much as an hour after the coolant reached "normal" until the oil temp quit going up. Even at that, the stable oil temp when it's cold outside is lower than it is in summer. This is much of why many of today's cars call for really low viscosity oil. The EPA standard drill may not allow (or require) a sufficiently long warm-up before measurements are taken. OTOH, a short (or no) warm-up is probably most representative of how most use their vehicles. Oh, and don't forget the effect of having a broken-in engine. New engines are tight, which, combined with cold weather, can yield pretty disappointing results. This probably isn't your issue though, given that you've had your car a year.