Car Leasing – The Most Popular Option
Over the last few years I have chosen to lease a car in preference to purchasing a car. I actually believe that this is the future and is perhaps the route that the decimated car industry should be attempting to go down. Yes car ownership could well be a thing of the past, within perhaps a decade, as the public cottons on to the benefits of car leasing.
So why did I start to lease a car instead of buying a car? Well I would imagine that the majority of people that read this article will be fully aware of just how much a brand new car depreciates in value as soon as one drives it off the garage forecourt. As I have become older and wiser this fact has started to annoy me; it just feels like some sort of daylight robbery. The initial rush of purchasing a brand new car is soon replaced by a feeling of “I have been had”. Maybe it is just me; especially as a person who now realises the value of money – something I must admit I did not have when I was in my twenties.
I was actually introduced to the whole concept of car leasing by a good friend of mine. We were driving to the local tennis courts and I was telling him that I was thinking of spending around fifteen thousand on purchasing a new car.
“Why do you want to do that?”
“The minute you have left the car showroom you will have lost two thousand on the value of the car.”
“Why pay out such a big sum when you can lease a car for a couple of hundred?”
I thought about what he had said and the questions that he had asked; he was right; what were the reasons?
That was around three years ago and I have been leasing cars ever since. This enables me to spend any lump sums of money that I have on going on holiday and investing on the stock maket.
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