Originally Posted by deepbluejh,Dec 18 2010, 12:22 PM

Curious as to why you decided to lease a brand new car instead of just buying a beater to tide you over (?).

Originally Posted by idea-catalyst,Dec 18 2010, 01:12 PM

I'm not trying to be nosy, but I find it hard to understand how a 3-year lease on a new car can be better than continuing payments (assumed financing) on a 5-year-old car with good resale value at the end. Not only is there little or no asset value at the end of the lease, there are non-trivial transaction costs involved with the change. All of these costs need to be factored into the "investment" decision. And that says nothing about the angst that you referred to about letting go of the S.

I hope you made the right financial decision and hope that you'll get back into an S sooner than you expect.

(my sympathy is even greater because mine is a MY07 Rio.)

Originally Posted by rosodigital,Dec 18 2010, 02:27 PM

Dude, I sold mine in 08 due to financial and baby reasons but recently got another after spending 2 years not finding an adequate or reasonably priced replacement. I seriously think the next step up for anything close to s2000 is porsche or an M3 both a bitch to maintain...

you'll be back :0P

Originally Posted by HiRpmVTEC,Dec 18 2010, 01:59 PM

I agree with the porsche and m3, however those cars will go on and on. THe beauty about the S is there is no other. there maybe be an s3000 or what not but it will never be as raw as the original. It will have all the gizmos and electronics that take the driving experience away. ie. = GT-R

Originally Posted by rob-2,Dec 18 2010, 05:04 PM

Just for future reference we have folks getting 120k+ on original clutch. I'm at 87k.

Sorry for the temp situation you're in.