I was forunate and ordered my 3.0 at about $2000 over invoice in Sept. You should hopefully be able to deal at least within $1500 by May if not better than that if you are aggressive in your dealing tactics! I can't help you out with lease rates or residuals. As for the Jeep that you are considering, one word of advice, Don't!! I got rid of my 99 Grand Cherokee in exchange for the X5. There is absolutely no comparison. The Jeep is a hunk of dirt, pardon my French! I hated that car and evidently I wasn't the only one because when I was selling it, there were several other 99's for sale in the newspaper as well.

Hi,
I'm an owner of an E39 Touring that I am leasing at a 'great deal'. I e, there was plenty of room to negotiate on price at the time I was shopping for the car and, the lease factors (money factor/residual value etc) were quite attractive a that particular point in time.
Now, in May my lease is up and I will either extend it OR look at an X5 3.0 manual.
Would any seasoned X5 owners / dealer be able to indicate whether I would be hallucinating when hoping for the following come May:
- negotiate the price within 1-1.5K within invoice
- hope for lease rates between 5-7%...
- high residual value..
I know I want the cake and eat it too, but I dont want to start looking at anything else (i e Jeep etc) that can tow the boat I'm looking at.
Thanks
Peter