| If you like, you can purchase your vehicle at the end of
your lease. All you have to do is contact Renault in Paris at
tel. (+33) 01 40 40 33 35 (drop the country code and leading zero if
calling from outside France) at least 8 days prior to the termination of your
lease, and they will arrange for 2 weeks worth of
temporary registration and insurance (appending to the end of your lease
duration) while further assisting you in regard
to financing.
The vehicle
will be a European-spec model, so you shouldn't plan to export it to,
say, North America. However, the full cost of your lease (not including any
pick-up and/or drop-off charges that might apply) will be subtracted
from the sticker price of the car (more precisely, the portion of that price
not including the French 18.6 percent value-added tax, VAT), and that remaining amount would be
the amount you would owe (plus
VAT on only that reduced amount). The standard sticker price
(including VAT) for a
particular version of a particular model is listed in Euros on that
model's specs page, accessible via the thumbnail image of the model on our
Rates & Reservations page.
The sticker price of the vehicle you actually receive
via the tax-free, short-term leasing program may be
higher, for your vehicle may come with more than the standard features.
Of course extras of this sort come with such lease at no additional cost; but if you choose
to purchase the vehicle outright, you will be charged for them.
Now, when you figure that the insurance for the duration of said lease is
included in the lease cost (a good value in Europe, where insurance is typically twice what it costs in, say,
the United States); and that the cost of the lease would be subtracted from the
pre-tax price of the car; and that the lease duration would effectively
be a nice, long test drive; and that you can return the lease early if you like,
eventually receiving a refund for unused days;
this option becomes pretty attractive if you plan to keep a vehicle in Europe.
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