We've just run into a similar situation, and we were lucky enough to get a salesman who doesn't work on commission to give the straight poop.
As you have found out, a lot places don't even want to deal with it. The ones that do generally are going to roll the payoff amount into your next purchase, so that you are still paying for the other car, just via a new payment. When we went over the numbers with the person, she indicated that we would be about $5k short on a "trade-in" and considering our remaining payments were under $4k, she recommended that if we were going to buy, it might make more sense to keep both until the lease expired - assuming we could afford a double car payment for another year. We haven't decided yet what to do, but that may be our option since the new car would be a convertible and the "old" car is an SUV. Oh the pleasures of a changing mind.
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