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Sooooo, why would you be leasing cars and worrying about paying for repairs?
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Sooooo, why would you be leasing cars and worrying about paying for repairs?
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Because I decided in 1989 never to pay for another car repair.
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Nope, until a car is fully paid off you are borrowing. DUH
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So spending several hundred thousands in lease payments is saving you money from car repairs... you must be an awful driver
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Audis/VWs are horribly expensive to maintain. Buy a car that is inexpensive to maintain, has a proven platform for reliability, and there is no way any lease can compare. These aren't 1980's Audis, or the few years they tried to prove to the Italians not to full out nationalize the Lamborghini brand by pushing out a few excellent drivetrains. I know engineers that work in Ingolstadt for Audi that try to design vehicle components to have a series of failures at certain mileage points, and that's all they do. Because they are scared that the vehicles will not be fit to operate on the autobahn. And this is a very familiar trend across all German cars for the last few decades, despite those specific concerns being disproved, all because it's a great fear-tactic sales pitch. I know, fighting words... for the record, I'm anti-brand loyalty for any major purchase. IDGAF, next week everyone can change how they build cars, and I would just buy the best one, German, Indian, Chinese, who cares.
Side note, I have a long-time friend working in automations at Mercedes, he thinks it's a success that less than whatever 25% of Mercedes over 10 years old remain on our roads. I don't think he understands that we don't have the same selection of budget models they do. Just such a wildly different culture when it comes to cars.
So while I know you're just trolling to waste time. The fact of the matter is, if you compare a reliable platform with low-cost maintenance to an expensive maintenance vehicle with long term reliability issues, then I happen to agree. Leasing an Audi is the only way I would actually pay for driving one, because buying one would be stupid. Being smarter than that, I would just buy a good car instead, put my money into a company that gives a shit about making a car that can be reliable after 20 years, or put on 500k miles without tens of thousands in maintenance.
Side note, I have a long-time friend working in automations at Mercedes, he thinks it's a success that less than whatever 25% of Mercedes over 10 years old remain on our roads. I don't think he understands that we don't have the same selection of budget models they do. Just such a wildly different culture when it comes to cars.
So while I know you're just trolling to waste time. The fact of the matter is, if you compare a reliable platform with low-cost maintenance to an expensive maintenance vehicle with long term reliability issues, then I happen to agree. Leasing an Audi is the only way I would actually pay for driving one, because buying one would be stupid. Being smarter than that, I would just buy a good car instead, put my money into a company that gives a shit about making a car that can be reliable after 20 years, or put on 500k miles without tens of thousands in maintenance.
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No one cares and go away. You bring nothing to any conversation.
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Who pays "hundred thousands" in lease payments? Are you stupid?
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No car (excluding exotics) is more expensive to maintain than a BMW. Mercedes has a terrible rep for quality
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If you paid on average of $300/month in lease payments since 1989 that works out to $111,600 dumb ****.
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He paid more than that if it was 2 or more vehicles over 3 decades. I'm also gonna call bullshit though because in his dossier he only recently (last decade) started posting about leasing being superior to buying, because IL tax law changed for leases.
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Yup, add in down payments... mileage overages for traveling the country selling billion dollar software and not to mention $300/month would be for a low class nancy boy beater car (hes probabaly closer to $600/month)... he's well over $200k.
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Can you do math over a 5th grade level? If you leased all those years then....never mind.
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we have one car payment which is almost gone and we are going to add another car for my wife. So we may have two payments for 6-10 months or so. I am going to take advantage of the pricing that we are starting to see from the local dealerships.
They are all closed, but still doing business online so I have my eyes on a couple of specific vehicles that are pretty nice and already pretty reasonably priced. We will see how they feel about their pricing if the stay at home stuff gets extended.
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Just buy an airplane and then use it when you want and lease it out to other people when you aren't using it. Let them pay you 100K+ to fly.
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Which is why you buy a Toyota, a Subaru, or a Honda.
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Massively underrated these days, KIA.
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I almost added KIA to that list as well, while they are making great cars today, Most of their quality has come around in the last decade.