when you lease a car you are paying for the time frame in which you have it. It is the value of the vehicle less the residual value (the vehicles worth) when handed back divided by the number of months leased (taxes can be part of the equation as well. You do not pay for the list price of the car. Also most leases do not included any of the maintenance you mentioned above. Car dealers / salesman can be opportunistic to be kind. Typically there are three things involved in a deal like this. 1) price of new auto 2) trade in value 3) monthly payment (interest rate). All three of these should be considered when leasing or buying. If you talk to a salesmen they will tell you surprisingly enough that each individual will worry about just one of these three variables. In this case your friend may have told the salesperson what they are willing to spend each month and they built the deal to match it. subsequently not getting a fair shake. Just a thought.
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