u/Cyberdoll77

We have never leased before so I would appreciate your opinions.

We are 18 months into a 24 mo lease on an 2025 IONIC6. We love it so much! Our plan was to purchase it when the lease is up. Today we got a call that it's a very popular car and the dealership wants to buy it out from us.

Is this normal? Do they usually do this to get owners to get into the cycle of leasing?

How can we have equity?

Benefit for us is we will go over our mileage when the lease is up, so this will free us from that.

I'm just generally confused and would appreciate any thoughts on this.

Thanks!