I'm interested in this as well. I'm looking at leasing either a nissan or a honda. looking at leasing a 19k car with 3k down for 3 years so I was wondering what I should be shooting for my FICO to reach before trying.
Well, I'm only going by an ad I heard for Toyota on the radio the other day but they were looking for a score of 660 or above (NB Northern California, they described 660 or above as "premium credit"). Others can contribute here but I think there is sometimes a special scoring model specifically for auto loans and the factors that determine the score are different from those that make up a FICO score etc (probably looking more at the performance of previous auto finance etc). Best of luck
I leased a 2003 chevy venture with a fico of 546. Gmac was having a credit rebuilder sale advertised in my local paper. They advertised a score of 550 or above, but I got one. Luke
