Alright to answer everyone’s posts at once here we go lol
Payments too high refers mostly to what’s affordable. I’m still a student in college but I do have a job that pays well enough for me to afford the car, and have some extra at the end of the month.
The idea was “lease to buy” I planned on purchasing the car after my lease for somewhere around 18k (that was the agreed upon price at the end of the lease) and to me it made sense. A 3 y.o car, who’s entire history I’m aware of, that I know was taken care of very well as well as getting the oil changed ever 7k miles was worth it to me. It gave me the ability to get into a new car for what it would cost me to finance a 2012/2013 (I got it last year)
I love my car, earlier this week I went and looked at a few other car which I found to be nice, but not as nice as my GTI. I obviously have to wait and see what VW offers me. The idea behind this thread was to see if anyone had the same situation so that I can begin to figure out what I want to do. VW corporate just keeps telling me “I’m not privy to that information” when I ask about specifics, I have to wait till next week to hear from them about whats gonna happen.
If the repurchase is what I think it is, which is my down payment as well as all my lease payments get refunded, I might take it and see if a can get into a 2015 mk7 GTI with a nice solid down payment, and then finance the rest with a cheaper monthly payment. But I have to see. It might make more sense to just replace the car and stick with my payment. Like I said I can afford it and then some, I just don’t want to be paying more if I don’t have to.
Thanks to all the posters, I understand the viewpoint that a lease is stupid because I never will “own” the car, I chose this route after a lot of though and contemplation. Thanks for the advice, what you said is something that I took heed of already. I don’t mind spending the money on my car, I spend most of my time in my car and love to drive so I don’t exactly make the most sound financial choice with my cars lol.
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