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Lots of people will lease the car to take advantage of the tax benefits and then buy out the lease a few months after taking delivery of the car.  That way, you can own the car outright if desired but still take advantage of the huge savings.

While some people say “leasing is a terrible financial move,” I’ve always approached the lease-versus-buy question on a very case-by-case basis. It all depends on what a customer is trying to accomplish regarding their monthly payment target and vehicle needs.

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Someone needs to dub “Disco Inferno” with this footage ASAP! Or Maybe make a video like this amazing tidbit from our recent past:

At some point leg room will be an issue - my little one is a stringbean as well ad we wound up front-facing her when she was too tall to face the rear.  With that said she probably won’t be heavy enough to go in a booster until she is 7 or 8.

Speaking of EV losers, I was browsing the Leasehakr forums this past weekend and noticed that in a desperate grab to get some vehicles on the road, VinFast is offering leases at $250-$300 per month with only taxes, tags, and fees down:

People keep on complaining about the high price of electrics, but for a luxury or premium brand, they are right on the money. I stopped by a local Audi dealer this past weekend to check out an E-Tron GT and Q8 E-Tron, two models that are certainly expensive compared to the average new car purchase. The sales associate

The one thing I might replace at this point is the sloppy shifter setup. It has almost as much play as the 90's Saabs where you had no idea whether you were starting in first or fifth! I swapped the old illuminated wooden shift knob for a ZHP knob and that had a surprising improvement on feel due to its shape and

My mom had a 1992ish SE and a 2000 GLE. The earlier car was a nimble corner carver with plenty of power with performance approaching a smaller-engine 3-class of the same era. The 3er likely had an edge because of its right wheel drive chassis but the Maxima was quite impressive.

In my mind, if they sell sports sedan as a Nissan, it might make sense to market a slightly larger executive saloon version (somewhere between the size of a 5 and 7-series) as an Infiniti with a more luxurious interior akin to the 7-series or S-class. At this point, they need to catch up to Genesis and offer a German

When I started driving, I shared a 97' Grand Prix SE with my dad as his bad weather car (he had a Miata) and it had the 3800 NA engine. It was pretty fast, handled well for a car in its class, and had plenty of interior and trunk space for road trips and hauling friends around. The back seat was big enough for my

I’m with you on one-pedal driving. I have an A7 PHEV which does not have one-pedal driving but it instead relies on decoupling the wheels from the drivetrain when coasting, especially downhill, to take the load off the drivetrain and improve efficiency. It has blended braking which I also prefer. I could never get

Thanks for confirming. I would imagine that while the CMF-EV platform is modular, it is geared more towards everyday cars and not necessarily luxury or sporty cars with RWD-biased powertrains. Let’s see if there is enough flexibility to accommodate the components that make a luxury and or sports sedan.  I will remain

Infiniti is such a sad, sad brand. When the G35 debuted, it was a great car and legit sports sedan competitor to the class-leading 3-series and it improved its luxury chops after the 2007 refresh. I came close to purchasing a 2005 sport and a 2009 6MT later on and always enjoyed the idea of a competent, 6-cylinder

Thanks, I really appreciate it! Enjoy yours too! Black and blue are my go-to colors and I like how it sits a tad lower than stock. I hope I can take mine for a few hot laps the next time I make it out to the track.

Mine is a 2002 LeMans blue! When it was built, I was in college and could not afford any car, let alone a near 6-figure super sedan but it was always my dream to someday purchase one. I remember one of the old school car mags (Motortrend, maybe) pitted one against a Z06 Vette and it was amazing that a heavy, 4-door

The X5 was my first bimmer but I remember being obsessed with their multicountour seats when driving cars of friends and on test drives through the late nineties and early aughts.  Back then, seats were either sporty/supportive but terribly uncomfortable, cushy and plush but unsupportive, or somewhere in between and

Otherwise, just buy something cheap and turn it into a true race-car, and that’s way more fun than using your ‘fun’ car as an occasional track car.

I already have this car in my garage - a 2014 BMW X5 diesel. Hear me out.

I agree with your assessment of M-cars being better suited for the track, most of the the N54-engined drivers I ran with all learned from their first track experiences and came back to the table with better oil cooling, circulation, and higher-flow injectors to overcome the shortcomings of the early-run engine

Yeah, I guess the current popularity of the former president and Desantis (at least in Florida) are some other examples of this.