Ripster wrote:
Come on Old Navy at yours and mine ages, you know a lease is nothing but a fleece.
The only way to buy is at 2-3 years old and with cash, but one of these days maybe I will do that, but
not a lease.
Buying at 2 to 3 years old with no warranty for some people would not be an option as they don't feel safe in the purchase. I have a MD. friend who buys new and trades at end of warranty period. Others I know have seek the pease of mind in the lease that ends at the termanition of the warranty period. Myself in the past I would buy new and drive it 10 years or so, before trading or buying again. Nowdays I doubt that I will be driving much more then 10 to 15 years at most, so I have been thinking about the lease program just to have a new playtoy every couple of years. The new Chrysler lease incentives are enticing, but the the old lease bugaboo keeps me from making that move.
Ripster I am thinking about buying either a new Sprinter diesel van with the new normal height roof that is due in '07, or the Jeep GC diesel. But I still cast a roving eye at a 98/99 MB 300D.