My Lease, My Numbers, and The Future Value of an FR-S

[bodayguy]

I decided to lease my FR-S rather than take out a 5-6 year loan. Those were my two options.
Here's why: my last car was in two fender-benders and when I went to trade it, they dinged me about $1,500 bucks on the value because of CarFax, despite the fact that the car looked and drove perfectly.
That took away most of the equity I had paid into it through the loan (vs. leasing). I was pissed and my strategy is this: lease it. If someone hits you, get it fixed through insurance and make the leasing company take the eventual hit in depreciation, not me.
I will probably get a new car when the lease is up. This way, the risk isn't on me.

[mwjcyber]

Originally Posted by Burrcold

No guarantee a convertible is on it's way.

Toyota recently stated with the "poor sales of the GT-86/FR-S", a convertible and more powerful version have been cancelled.

[chc36]

I have a 5 year financing for $412 a month, very affordable and I get to keep the car afterward. 5k down at 1.9% and came fully loaded. Maybe I'm weird but I like to drive my cars into the ground, before my FR-S had and still have a corolla with 170k miles, my theory is I have a car that I love, why would I want to get rid of it in 3 years, or have to keep paying. In 5 years I'm done, period. More money to spend elsewhere

[whoster]

Originally Posted by subiestyle

The biggest advantage that I've observed from lease owners that know they will swap cars at the end of the lease is that they (not that I condone this or would do this myself) don't properly care for the car.

No break-in, very minimum maintenance, regular hooning while engine is cold, etc.

I mostly followed break-in procedures.

The car's not going to need much maintenance anyway in the first 3 years (and scheduled maintenance is included in the lease for 25,000 miles).

I don't hoon in general.

Not everybody that leases a car falls under the "I don't care about what I drive" umbrella.

[BlaineWasHere]

Originally Posted by mwjcyber

Toyota recently stated with the "poor sales of the GT-86/FR-S", a convertible and more powerful version have been cancelled.

Cancelled?!? They never even officially said that they were ever going to make them in the first place!

[chrisl]

Originally Posted by mwjcyber

Toyota recently stated with the "poor sales of the GT-86/FR-S", a convertible and more powerful version have been cancelled.

*citation needed*

[mwjcyber]

Originally Posted by chrisl

*citation needed*

It's been all over these forums and the internet for the past month. Look it up yourself.