If you're leasing, you don't really care about whether it's a 05 or 06. Your residual has already been determined at the outset. It only matters if you plan to buy out the lease at some point and flip the car right away.

 

Calm down about the "02 is faster" comment. I just wanted to get your collective blood pressure up. I don't care which is faster to be honest. Mine goes fast enough for me.

My main point was: BUY, dont lease. If you finance, you pay the same as leasing, but when its all said and done, you OWN the car and you can sell it or keep it or whatever you want. You don't just give it back.

 

Buuuut, if you lease, you always have a car payment, but every 2-3 years you can get a brand new car! A lot of people like that option too.

 

That's still an option with buying. Just sell it to pay of the car loan. Use the difference between what you still owed and what you sold the car for to put a downpayment on the new car and finance that one as well.

If leasing had an economical advantage over buying, then the people who Buy the car to lease it would loose money. That's not the case, so if you cut out the middle man and buy the car yourself, you will make out better than leasing.

 

Exactly. Also, if you have to get a new car every 3 years, try thinking harder so you can get the right 1 the first time.

Layaway and Rent is for suckers too!

 

But now we're getting off topic

 

Not wanting to get into a debate over this either, but, one of the reasons the AP1 may seem faster is due to the clutch delay. When I had it done and my friend didnt, I could pull two car lengths on him, given my mods. But now that we modded his slave cylinder, I can only pull a car length, maybe 1.5 car lengths.

I bought my car in Oct '04 and it is an '05. The best deals can be had in the middle of winter. What idiot is gonna buy a convertible in winter?? Well, I did because of the awesome deal I was getting. Add to the fact that they had my color choice coming off of a truck scheduled to arrive 3 weeks after the first interaction I had with the dealer.

Don't pay MSRP or dealer adjusted values. Shoot for 500 under invoice. I got my dealer down to 800 over invoice, but people have been known to get the 500 under.

Good luck!