SUV lease deals in California

The SUV shelf is the deepest one we carry, and it runs across nine brands rather than one showroom. The biggest stacks right now: 177 cars of the Kia Sportage from $356 a month, 123 cars of the Sorento from $412, 188 cars of the Subaru Crosstrek from $330, 263 cars of the Hyundai Palisade from $406, and 234 cars of the Santa Fe from $359.

The same rules run here as everywhere on the site. No live bank program for a term means the deal is not shown at all. The payment already carries California tax, the money factor and every fee sit on the page, and the Hunter Score rates the deal rather than the car. Browsing takes no account and no credit check.

Smallest and cheapest to run: the Hyundai Kona opens the range at $189 a month with 68 cars in stock and a Hunter Score of 98 on its strongest deal, the Nissan Kicks sits alongside it, 690 cars from $296, and the Kia Seltos covers the same slot, 51 cars from $348. The Honda HR-V rounds it out, 139 cars from $331.

The volume middle is where most families land: Sportage, Tucson (206 cars from $266, Hunter Score 98), Nissan Rogue (435 cars from $360, scoring 80), Subaru Forester (126 cars from $374), Honda CR-V (318 cars from $406), Mazda CX-5 (195 cars from $331) and Volkswagen Tiguan (270 cars from $385). If all-wheel drive on every trim matters, the Subaru side of that list is where to start.

Not every third row is a real seat. The full-size pair are the Hyundai Palisade (263 cars from $406, its best deal scoring 98) and the Kia Telluride (95 cars from $495): adults ride in the back on a real trip. The Kia Sorento (123 cars from $412) and Hyundai Santa Fe (234 cars from $359) put a third row in a body that still parks easily, which is the right answer when the extra seats are occasional rather than daily.

Bigger again: the Nissan Pathfinder, 220 cars from $398, the Honda Pilot, 107 cars from $600, and the Subaru Ascent, 31 cars from $394. On electricity three rows exist too: the Kia EV9, 7 cars from $610 with a Hunter Score of 95, and the Hyundai IONIQ 9, 1 car from $695.

Most of the volume nameplates now come both ways, and on a lease the question is simply whether the hybrid's monthly premium is smaller than the fuel you stop buying. The hybrid shelves: 201 cars of the Palisade Hybrid from $428, 170 cars of the Santa Fe Hybrid from $469, 54 cars of the Sportage Hybrid from $359, 65 cars of the Tucson Hybrid from $392, 47 cars of the Sorento Hybrid from $460 and 71 cars of the Telluride Hybrid from $592.

Open both versions of the same nameplate and compare the monthly side by side rather than trusting a rule of thumb: the gap swings with the bank program, and in some months the hybrid is the cheaper lease outright because its program carries more lease cash. That comparison is the whole reason the numbers are on the page.

Every monthly here carries California sales tax, which on a normal retail lease is charged on the payment rather than on the full price of the car. Each deal also names its term, its annual mileage and the credit tier the payment assumes, because a low number with an unnamed mileage cap is exactly how a teaser is built. Set your own ZIP on a deal and the engine recomputes the tax to where you will register the car.

If the drive-off is what you are optimizing, the whole catalog can be repriced to a true $0 due at signing, which moves the first month and the fees into the monthly instead. That is a cash-flow choice rather than a discount, and both versions are visible when you open a deal.