But leasing a car for a new driver could be more of a risk and won’t save you money in the long run.

One of the saddest things you’ll ever see is a grown man standing in the new car section of the dealer lot with his 17-18 year old daughter. The pain is palpable.

People forget that you can buy the car at the residual value after the lease.

Don’t be so judgmental. We aren’t all dumb and uppity. We had a beater in my driveway for a couple years (started with one child, which then got handed down to the other child when I handed my car down to the first child). It was affectionately dubbed the land yacht.

According to my porn habits...

...that means your total cost would be about $9,400 over the course of the lease. That doesn’t seem like a lot of money to spend for a car with an MSRP of around $22,000. But what people often forget about leases is that at the end of the term, you have to give the car back and start all over again.

I had a buddy lease a car while in highschool. Worked out good for him though. He leased it, kept it in fairly good shape and low mileage then gave it back and joined the army. He flies fighter jets now and doesn’t need his own car... He also got a super low mileage deal through a family friend so his out of pocket…

A car is unreliable if things are breaking or if it’s stranding you places. Oil consumption is an issue, but it’s not going to strand you unless you monitor it, and knackered shocks is just ignored maintenance, same as bald tires or squeaky brakes, hardly the car’s fault.

P.S., to fully disable the stability control and traction control, pull the wheel speed sensor. Fold down the rear seats. There’s an upholstered cover between the rear seat and cargo area that’s held on by a few snaps. Pull that up and there’s a connector sitting right there that you can disconnect. Voila no more…

Nothing like “hey I want to see you this weekend, can you [drive 30 minutes to] pick me up so we can [drive 45 minutes to] go do something near you, after which you can drive me [45 more minutes, but now there’s traffic, somehow so it’s more like an hour to get to my] home where you’ll say good night [and then drive…

I’ve never seen anything like that motorcycle hitch. Is that a real thing or did you jerry-rig it up like that?

She managed to seduce you with it. Dare I say it was more of a....Bae-woo?

It doesn’t tick any boxes other than RWD and mid-engined. It’s slow, cramped, drives awfully and is ill-suited to highways. It shines in the old world, with a manual transmission, staying within old-world city limits where streets are narrow and parking is a constant challenge.

My wife had a a 94(-ish?) SC1, I can confirm 40MPG road trip at 75-80 MPH. We needed something with more space and sold it during the spike in gas prices to a family that had multiple SUVs and were desperate for something with decent milage. It had 150,000 on the original clutch, completely knackered shocks, and a…

Haha I remember that! It was like there was some bureaucracy the drivetrain had to go through before responding to you!

RWD, rear-engined...what’s the problem here?

Had a 2002 SC1, can confirm. Gas mileage was great, but when you need to hit the accelerator harder when the A/C turns on, you know you could use a little more power.

The Ex-Wife’s leased Miatas she insisted on a 1 or 2 year leases while I drove the same Saturn Coupe for 7 years. Since we couldn’t afford 2 car payments, I hate Miatas to this day because of her.

My wife’s SX-4, which is now my SX-4. The CVT is horrendous. It’s constantly trying to lower the RPMs, despite the fact I’m trying to accelerate. So you end up having to mash the gas a bit to go, then it speeds up, but then bogs down. So you mash the gas again. Rinse and repeat. Between the 1 second it takes the car…

We can choose our lovers, but we can’t choose their cars.