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Leases are icky when you put on more then 60 miles a day. Better off owning the car at that point.

In my case, I buys\sell cars fairly often so my cost of ownership is gas and maintenance items (or driving for free). You know my system, stick with 10k cars and turn every year or 30k miles. It works..

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Sounds like you need to weigh how much you want AWD between the Kia and Suzuki. I don't think you could go wrong with either one.

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Each company is different. It's between 15-30 cents per mile over.

It's misleading advertising. This is only a good deal if you have absolutely zero intentions of buying the car at the end of the lease. We do this crap too. You can lease an Evo for 259 a month right now. Fine print, its a 24 month, 24,000 lease, requires like 3000 down, plus tax title and licence. So, like $5000 cash down.

It's a great deal if you're like my dad who would always lease cars, and always expected to have a car payment. But it requires a lot of money down, on a short lease. Chevy wants like $2800 down + TTL for a 24/24 lease. This means you're putting nearly $5000 on a 2 year lease where you're only eating up 25% of the value of the car, leaving you with like 70-75% left to finance if you go to buy it. So not only are you not getting a subsidized rate, you're financing 3/4 as much, and you already put 5000 on that lease.

I figure 250/m for 24 months is $6,000 + they want $2800 down. So 8,800 of total principal payments. That's based on a car that MSRPs for nearly 40k. Look how much is going to be left at the end of 2 years. Like I said, we do that same crap on Evos, but it's not a good deal unless you truly just wanna lease it for 2 years and get something else.

If you plan to buy out a lease DON'T PUT huge chunks of money down on the lease!

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I honestly plan to buy whatever car out at the end of a lease. Really the lease would be a delay of my purchase as I am short on cash now, so I'd expect to put some money down at that time if I need to. I know I drive quite a few miles Shawn but I hate my POS honda which would prolly make it through another 20k miles if I put like 400 into it to fix a few things. I just want something with a warranty where I put gas/oil into, gets decent gas mileage and everything in the car works. Which is why I am going newer.

The whole 10k car deal requires effort to find cars often and then it also requires that I either fix a decent amount of things myself or pay to fix things that break on $10k cars.Plus I like new shit ;)

But in all honesty, the Subaru lease and Kia one both seem pretty decent, the Kia one seems like a no brainer if I want that car.

Whatever I get, unless I hate it I'd plan to keep for at least 5 years, hopefully longer. All of my excess car money goes to the evo and fixing that and if I looked at another car I'd be upgrading/changing the evo not the DD.

And 40 miles on the volt gets me 2/3 of my daily miles but I refuse to buy a "government motors" vehicle. I should as we all own them and paid for them but I honestly think they make some pretty iffy cars. I like the cruz and the corvette, everything else is meh.

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Nevermind the fact you almost bought a 'Vette ;)

The Volt is the single car I would consider a lease on, anything else, if you eventually want to own it...just buy it. Lease-to-own makes zero financial sense unless you're simply trying to buy something you can't afford, especially with all the 0% for 60 months financing deals manufacturers are offering.

What I see happening here is you originally wanting a $15k car, falling into the dealership numbers game trap, looking at only monthly payments rather than total cost, and ending up with another car closer to the $30k mark.

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I didn't buy a vette though :) Like I said that is the only good car they make and it was going to be a used one anyway lol. Anyway side tracked.

Well if I truly wanted to I can afford 500/mo payments, I just didn't like the idea of that, seems silly lol. I don't have a car payment anymore, the evo's was done like a year ago and that was 405/mo.

If I could wait until spring I would as then I could use my bonus/tax return as a downpayment which would easily be 10k but the honda just sucks complete ass in snow/winter and needs a good chunk of change to keep it running.

I should've been shopping sooner so I didn't run outta time for car shopping but work has been hell lately.

So really not sure what to do. Not sure why leasing the Kia would be a bad idea, seems like everything looks alright and Trogdor's right, the lease rate is really cheap. It's no different then buying now or later if you plan to buy. I could always just take the low ass mile lease and plan to buy the car out at the end and drive it a ton of miles. Then have really low rates and save up for buying it later. it's taking a hit now or later, lease just delays it really.

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*edit*

It's obviously your money and we all look at our finances differently so this is just my 2-cents :)

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How is 13.9k a big buyout though on a car that is 3 years old and ~35,000 miles. That is some of the cars I am looking at now, and its slightly cheaper.

I dunno, maybe I am looking at this wrong, but the lease rate is low so the financing is a decent deal, its not free money like 0% but pretty good.

So I pay 300/mo for 3 years then get a loan for like 10k or less as I'd put a few thousand up prolly and on a 3 yr old car with low miles its still a cheap car payment that I end up owning and I know everything that happened to the car from start to finish and I have a good warranty still.

I appreciate everyones input, I rarely ever buy stuff like this and that is why I am asking. This discussion is helping out a lot and making me see all the sides of the equation. Please continue :)

edit: beat your edit :)

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I see that ;)

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So am I really looking at this strangely or wrong? It's a 24k car that with the lower rates I am paying financing yes but I don't think its like raped in the butt financing where you end up paying 2x the cars worth.

I dunno, input?

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I agree with Kracka, if you are going to end up buying the car anyway, why not just buy it from the beginning? Get locked in to 0% interest and not have to deal with any possible hidden surprises later on.

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Keep payments lower and I am not so sure that they will let me finance 24k or whatever it is.

The big problem is that I have two houses, one I technically don't have anything to do with but hurts my debt to income ratio. I am cosigned on a condo with my dad as he needed me to get a loan back in 08 when things went to shit for his business but that is all paid for and I am just on the loan which hurts me.

So trying to finance 24k could be an issue which is why I didn't think that is a good idea.

I dunno, maybe I should just buy a shitbox that is slightly better than my shitbox.

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Step 1: Have your dad refinance his condo to get your name off it.

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Just refinanced it like a month ago...can't get me off it. Used the fannie/freddie upside down shit to do it from the govt.

He owns two other houses too and a business, so they wouldn't let him take me off. I don't even want to know all the nonsense he has to deal with on finances lol. Mo money mo problems for him i guess.

But that is the reason I didn't look at getting a brand new car to begin with and the lease seemed like a way to just get a new car.

So for real though, is leasing it really that bad when you only have 13k to pay off at the end? What if I ended up saving for the buyout amount and paid cash, then that is only 3 years of very low interest on the car. I see several people saying the lease to own is dumb but I just want to know which part makes it so icky. Edumacate me :)

This is also the reason I am locked in a dumb ass mortgate for my house and can't refinance to something good. We actually bought my house in cash and I paid my dad as I had the other loan at that time.

Lot of crazy financing mumbojumbo.

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At the risk of affecting the chances Dave buys a Kizashi, leasing to own isn't a terrible idea like people think it is as long as you are well informed about how to do it.

You want your lease:residual to be as close to 50:50 as you can get it. This way your payments don't go up $100 a month when you buy the car. You also need to take in to account that interest rates will be higher. Not only will they be higher because lease rates are subsidized. It will also be higher because it's now a used car.

Are you paying TONS more money than you would if you were to buy it? No. Kare11 actually ran a story about this recently showing that you save money in most cases by leasing for 3 and financing for 3.

That said, and this is where I go back to trying to sell Dave a car, 0% for 72 is lower than any lease rate and any interest rate you can get on a 3 year old used car!

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0% for 72? That's almost unheard of. What's the warranty? 7/100?

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Ok, now I get what you are saying Bobby with the whole 50/50 thing lol, I was a little lost reading it at 1am last night enjoying a sorrow drink after the vikes game :)

So I think I am looking at this correctly then, or at least you are one person saying its not "stupid" to do it that way.

But i understand the interest rates will go up for several reasons which is why I said I'd plan to put down some of my own money to offset as much of that as I could at the time. But aside from that it doesn't seem too dumb. But I guess I wanted to hear what the people saying leasing is dumb think and why. Just because extra interest? Well that is what noobs like me get for not putting money down or financing an entire car lol. I am ok with paying someone some extra money to buy me a car essentially. But seriously just looking for honest opinions. I am pretty good at paying off structured debt, aka something with payments I dont' have problems with, I account for them every month and they get paid off in a timely manner. Then I pay off big chunks with tax return/bonus at work.

I am by no means a financial expert and I love to spend money espeically other peoples, lol, which is why I am asking advice. Hell I had to talk myself out of signing papers last night at Kia as I just want a car and I felt like that one fit the bill. But I wanted to make an informed decision. I am an engineer so I am good at math, so feel free to math it up.

I guess bottom line is it comes down to how much I want to pay someone else extra for something to have it right now instead of waiting type of deal.

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Yes, 7/100 on that car. And they had a bumper to bumper for 3/36k or something, well minus radio i think haha.

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Yep! 0% for 72 months on an AWD sedan that comes with a 100,000 miles warranty!

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Figure this. 300/m for 3 years then 400+interest for 3 years. If you split the difference it's $350 a month for 72 months. But that doesn't include interest on the second 1/2 of that.

So the Suzuki is about $335/m with the 0%. Averaging the 3 years of lease vs 3 years of loan you're probably somewhere like $360-370 a month for the total of 72 months, on a front wheel drive car.