Leasing vs Buying a Car: Which is ACTUALLY Cheaper in 2025? | Episode 908

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We're going to talk today about leasing versus buying.

Which one is a better value right now in 2025?

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Now, dad.

Yes.

Today's show is going to be one of those educational shows.

We did this last week,

and you shared with me at the end of that show how excited you were,

how much fun you had really making this educational.

Folks, that's the purpose for today.

We've been talking a lot recently about leasing.

Today, I wanted to have the conversation about leasing versus buying,

and my ask of the community, those that tune in to the show today,

please share questions.

So for example here, Mark has a question about money factor.

Does it change based on someone's credit?

Mark, I'm starring this question right now.

We're not going to answer it immediately,

but I'm going to pull that back up.

We're going to answer it.

Put your leasing versus buying or leasing and buying questions in the chat.

We've got 30 minutes.

Let's have some fun.

Let's try and help people, but let's start here, dad.

Leasing versus buying a car.

Which is cheaper?

Which is a better value in 2025?

What's the quick 30 answer to that question?

Typically, it is cheaper to buy a car than it is to lease a car

if your intention upon leasing the car is to buy it at the end of the lease.

If your intention is to not buy it at the end of the lease,

then your lease in payment will be less typically than your car payment

would be if you financed it.

But the difference is obviously in one case,

you're eventually paying off a vehicle and owning it

and whatever equity there is is yours.

And in the other case, in a lease,

people are just paying for the use of the vehicle

based on the amount of miles expected to be driven every year

and you will own nothing at the end of that time.

Can we talk a little bit about your personal experience, dad?

So for those of you that have not heard this line come out of my mouth

or my father's mouth at some point in time,

he spent 40 plus years in retail automotive selling cars, running dealerships.

You, however, dad, choose to lease vehicles.

Your most recent vehicles you've chosen to lease

have bought cars in the past. You financed them.

Have you ever paid cash for a car?

I have not now.

Okay, so you've only ever financed the purchase of a vehicle

or leased a vehicle.

Right now, you're Mazda. You leased your Mazda.

Help us understand what made you decide to lease instead of buying.

What do you like about leasing? What do you dislike about leasing?

What I like about leasing is that there's a fixed term.

So what do I mean by that?

Most leases are the sweet spot for most leases

is usually between 24 months to 36 months.

So what it means for somebody that drives 10 to 12,

maybe even 15,000 miles a year,

is that during the course of the lease,

they will have a vehicle if it's 12,000 miles a year

that is under warranty for the whole time

that they are driving that vehicle.

So they'll have a fixed payment.

They'll know the day they sign up for that lease,

what they can buy it for at the end of the lease.

That's the residual value.

So they can kind of base what they want to do on the future

on knowing what the future value is assigned to that vehicle.

And you'll have a payment that's lower than a purchase

and you'll always be under warranty.

So for someone who likes to drive a new car

every two to three years, leasing, in my opinion,

is the best way to do it.

Assuming, of course, that you buy into the premise

that you will always have a car paper.

Dad, did you ever regret financing a vehicle

when you thought maybe I should have leased it?

Did you ever lease a vehicle and regret that

and think I should have financed it instead?

I have purchased vehicles

and I suffer from wonderlust when it comes to cars.

I will tell you that I'm not really a car guy

except that for whatever reason

I always seem to be driving a new or newer car.

And so one time I did buy a car

and I financed it

and my wonderlust kicked in in like three years

and I was a little bit upside down.

And so I rolled that into my next lease

so that at the end of three years

I could be at a break-even point

and not have to worry about it.

If you're like me,

even if you're not really a car guy

but you like a newer car

that you for whatever reason

grow weary of what it is that you're driving

and in today's world

that really doesn't happen because I don't drive enough

but when I did drive

if you suffer with that wonderlust

you are better off leasing

than trying to have to roll negative equity

from one loan into the next.

Yeah, that makes sense.

Dad, I want to go to the chat here in a moment

so please put your questions in the chat

about buying versus leasing

and any questions you have around that.

But first I want to ask you

let's talk about monthly payments for a moment here.

You mentioned a second ago when you were talking

if you subscribed to the idea

that you're always going to have a car payment,

which to be clear,

you do not always have to have a car payment.

You could pay cash for a vehicle and not have a loan.

You could also pay off your car loan

and then continue to drive that vehicle.

There are a lot of folks out there

that do not have a car payment.

They still have expenses associated

with the car every month.

Insurance, maintenance, fuel.

Yeah.

Appreciation.

You don't really think about depreciation

but that's in there as well.

But you don't have to pay a loan

or you don't have to pay a finance

or a leasing company.

But let's talk monthly payment for a moment here.

Typically when you lease dead

how does that compare to financing

from a monthly payment perspective?

That's usually lower, right?

Typically a lease payment is lower

than a purchase or finance payment.

One of the great lines

that I ever heard in the car business was

if your payment was the same

would you prefer to lease or buy?

And if somebody said,

oh well, I think I'd prefer to lease.

Believe me, they'd keep your payment the same

as what it would have been

if you hadn't bought the damn thing.

The payment for buying it is higher

than it would be for leasing it

and the reason for that, okay?

So that hopefully people can understand this a little bit.

When you lease a vehicle

you negotiate the selling price

of the vehicle to the lease company, okay?

So if the car is $40,000

you negotiate just like you're buying the car

and maybe you get that down to

I don't know, $36,000.

That's how much the leasing company

is going to pay for the car.

Then we know what the residual is

and they subtract the residual value

which is the future value

of the vehicle from the selling price.

That's known as the depreciation.

That's divided by the number of months

that you're actually leasing the vehicle.

And so the lower you can make

that selling price

the lower the amount of actual depreciation

is going to be, so the lower the payments going to be.

When you purchase a car

there is no future value, nobody guarantees

what it's going to be

and you're just paying interest from the get-go

on the full amount of the vehicle.

You're not doing that on a lease.

Now, does leasing work for everybody?

No, high mileage drivers would hate a lease

although you can structure a lease

for a high mileage driver.

Most high mileage drivers don't want to think of that.

People would say,

well, ultimately won't it cost me more

if I lease it and then I want to buy it?

Typically it would.

But as I said before

if you suffer with the same wonderlust that I do

and you like a newer vehicle every two or three years

it makes perfect sense to lease.

There we are.

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to the chat that yes from Mark

so we've got a question about leasing

does the money factor change based on someone's credit

while you're answering this

I am going to have the screen open to Google

because I want to share with everyone

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so please don't be distracted

go for the answer dad

I'm just going to the short answer to that is yes

you know the money factor is

is based on credit tiers

let's say the money factors 0.00150

if you're if you're a tier one

and that would be somebody 740

and above with their auto FICO score

in some cases it might be 720 and above

if you fall into a slightly lower tier

that 0.000150 might turn into 0.000175

here's a perfect example dad

tier one on an Acura MDX

the current money factor you can see it right here

for a 20 let's see 36 months term

0.0028 which is the APR of 6.72%

versus tier two to your point on the credit score

it pops 36 month is 0.003257.8%

this is I mean this is incredible

that we just have this data freely accessible to folks

Mike if you make all this stuff free

you'll have no need for me

okay

sorry to cut you off

I am going to be replaced by

by AI and all the good free data we have

but yes

and here's the reason why there's credit tiers

whether you're financing a vehicle

or leasing a vehicle

and when you are leasing a vehicle

credit is more important

than when you're financing a vehicle

what do I mean by that

it is harder to get approved for lease

because the leasing company

is assuming a greater responsibility

because they're buying the whole vehicle

it's their vehicle you're the one

that's agreeing to make the payments on it

they're not going to take as many risks

for somebody who leases

as somebody who purchases a vehicle

so you have to bear that in mind

I'm one other thing

and we don't mention it often enough

but the insurance coverage for a lease

is slightly more expensive

than it would be on a purchase

because there is a minimum

required amount of coverage

and typically it's $100,000, $300,000

of coverage that a leasing company

insists that you have on the vehicle

as opposed to in many states

the minimum requirements are

so much lower than that

and nowhere near

what the lease company requires

Fascinating, love that insight

Pops thank you for sharing it

we've got here Dad from Joe

leasing versus buying for a rare

or low production trim of a particular model

a vehicle

Dad, does the trim level

or how rare a vehicle is

influencing versus buying in your eyes?

Well, I would think

especially if it's a rare

type of vehicle

and even if it's not necessarily rare

if it's just

something like a Ferrari

or a McLaren or something like that

often times

it would probably make more sense

to lease than to buy it

and you can then see

what the residual value

is at the end of the lease

in comparison to what the true

market value might be at the end of the lease

and at that point you can make a

determination as to whether or not

you should purchase it

and continue with it

or whether or not you

could purchase it and sell it

and reap that profit if

the lease allows you to buy it

and sell it

Dad, Igor

earlier in the show

if you trade out of cars

every two to three years

and you drive a lot of miles

you're a better off leasing

so I think similar to

what you were saying as well

from Charlie

strongly recommend leasing

only from the manufacturer's

financial arm rather than a private bank

usually better prices and easier

turn in process would love to hear

Pops's opinion

Igor too

Dad, what do you make of this?

There are only a few

banks out there today

that actually participate

in leasing as

compared to what it used to be

and yeah, you're right on with that

the banks that are doing it

are not nearly as forgiving as

the captive lenders

for the manufacturers that are doing it

and typically

the captive lenders

will offer better programs

than private banks

although there are times where

some of the private banks

will offer a better program

but then

there's a greater

likelihood that a captive lender

will overlook some of the

excess wear and tear to some degree

than a private bank would

so especially

that's a turn in process that you're

especially when you're turning it in

and you're leasing another vehicle

from that captive lender

so

yeah

most of

I won't say all the leases I have done

have been with the captive lenders

I have never

I have never done one myself

with a private bank

or lending institution

although I have

written leases in my lifetime

utilizing other banks

and lending institutions for those leases

for other customers

when that was much more prevalent

than it is today

GE finance

used to be

huge

in leasing

if I remember correctly I think in the late 80s

and early 90s

interesting fascinating from Susanna

always good to see you Susanna thanks for being here

leasing still includes maintenance right

well you are responsible

for the maintenance on the vehicle

as if you had purchased it

you are

beholden to the leasing company

we need to get all the maintenance

is done that are scheduled

now if you lease

like a BMW or a mini

where maintenance is included

that makes it

simple because you're not really paying anything

out of pocket for that

but yeah you are

expected and required to

maintain the vehicle

up to factory standards

and specifications as far as

when it's due for service

I think that's a really good point

some leases include

the maintenance

you don't have to pay out of pocket for it

you're already paying for it

when I had the minis

every year

I would take it in for my annual

low mileage oil change

you know

and I didn't pay for the oil change

mini paid for the oil change

so yeah

but I mean

the current car doesn't have

maintenance included

you know I have like

1,260 miles on it

and I will hit my 6 month

anniversary with that vehicle

I think the third or fourth week in September

and my plan is

at this point in time is to make

a service appointment

and bring it in and have an oil change done

at 6 months

it will be 6 months on about 1,300 miles

but it will be 6 months

and just

do I have to do that

I don't know

I believe the first oil change is probably

recommended at 6,000 or 7,500 miles

but

if that were the case I would never get there

and I just think

with the possibility that I will want

to buy this car at the end

of the lease I'm going to spend a few

dollars to maintain it

so that I have nothing to worry about

if I buy it at the end

with respect to that if you do buy your lease

at the end of the term you know everything

that all the miles that have been put on it

the maintenance history it's a high quality

used car if you've taken care of it

yeah you know

there isn't anything you don't know

about that vehicle and

any time you typically

buy a used car

you really have

no idea as to how

the previous owner drove it

and maintained it now

in these cases there could be a car

fax that will show when maintenance was done

but you don't know how they drove it

you don't know where they drove it

you don't know if they drove it through flood waters

there's lots of things you don't know

yeah we're not doing the story today

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but you know you can be buying your next used car

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answer pops well I do want to

say that you are

responsible to a

maintain the vehicle

you you aren't allowed to really

um customize

the vehicle unless it enhances

the value of the vehicle if it

detracts from the value of the vehicle you can't do it

and you are responsible

for normal

wear and tear so what is normal

wear and tear well every lease company

will have a guide

so you can ask when you're considering

going into a lease well what do they

what is this lease company consider normal

wear and tear and the

dealership can probably pull up all that

information for you but

I know like it many it was door

dings couldn't be bigger than a quarter

scratches couldn't be more than

two inches or whatever it was if

if I don't know

um you had a minor fender bender

well you're not supposed to bring the vehicle back

with the minor fender bender you're

supposed to if it needs body

work you're supposed to get the body work

done um so

you have certain obligations

in the lease um and

if there is excess wear

and tear that you didn't

take care of like you bring

the car back and it needs tires they're

going to charge you for the tires

because in your lease agreement

it's going to say that it has to have

at least 432nd

tread depth when you bring it back

if it's less than that there's a charge

for the tires if the

alloy wheels are scuffed there's

a charge to repair the alloy

wheels so

you have to maintain it

and I can tell

you I have brought cars back

with scuffed wheels with minor

dents and I haven't

paid a dime

because it's especially

the cars I bring back they represent

such a good value to the dealership

because they're so low mileage

that they'll absorb all those

costs because they just want to get their hands on

my car that's a really good

point to add from triple

what brands allow one-pay lease can you

also explain what is a one-pay

lease what is this term we don't hear it often

well a one-pay lease is

just that you make all the

payments up front and

I would imagine

I don't know I think most brands

do allow for a one-pay

lease and in order to

encourage you to do a one-pay

lease they will

lower the money factor

might be 10 basis points

or 20 basis points or 25

basis points

in order to give you

a cheaper payment because you're paying them

all up front and they have

at that point they have nothing to worry about

should the vehicle

get total it doesn't matter all the payments

have been made the insurance

company will pay whatever the value of the vehicle is

why don't

a customer ever choose to do a one-pay

lease what's the because

well because it's a cheaper

money factor

I never encourage people

to do one-pay leases because

what if

after two years you're tired of it

well you've already paid for it

you've already paid for that third year

they don't give it back to you if you turn

the car in okay

but if you also signed a lease

contract I guess you could maybe like

get someone else to take over

the lease to lease

it's got to be up to the leasing company

it's not yours to sub-lease

yeah okay it doesn't belong

to you the only thing that belong

to you was the payment

okay and there's other ways to impact

the payment to get a lower

interest rate you could do multiple

security deposits many of

the active lenders allow for

multiple security deposits

so you know most leases today

are no security deposit

but if you were to do

multiple security deposits they

might lower the money factor

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I think it's something to you know

we're getting into kind of the weeds of they say

but it's important to understand

and most brands not all brands

most brands

as part of the acquisition fee

because there is an acquisition fee

that a leasing company charges

for putting the lease together

and many of

the captive lenders

that acquisition fee whatever it may be

in many cases it's

695 or 995 whatever it is

but in many of those cases

that includes

gap insurance

on the lease itself so that

if there is an issue where the vehicles

totaled you as

the customer don't have to worry about

well if there's a

difference between what the insurance company

will pay and what is still owed

who's responsible

for many of the lease companies there's the

gap insurance built into it and you don't have to worry about

my current lease

which is with

many financial services

which is part of Toyota

financial services

Mazda, Mazda Financial

I'm sorry Mazda Financial Services

that doesn't include

gap insurance and I did not

buy it

so I'm on the hook

if the vehicle were to get totaled

I would be on the hook

for the difference between what the insurance company

would pay and what is still owed

so you want to

look into that as well as

to whether or not

that leasing company provides

gap insurance if they

don't you might want to consider it

Dad let's keep going here through the chat

this is awesome I'm really enjoying today's conversation

from Rusty

thanks Rusty over on Facebook can you explain

the difference between an open lease versus

a closed lease I don't even know

what's an open lease and closed lease pops

well in the old days an open

end lease was

simply where

the customer

was responsible for the

residual value

so let's say you leased

a vehicle and it had a residual value

of $25,000 at the end

of the three years and it turned out

that well

market conditions were such that it was only worth

$20,000 you as

the customer of an open then lease

were responsible for that

$5,000 difference

and a closed

end lease it's the

banks problem not the

customers problem so

why would people have done

opened end leases at one time

well because you could artificially

create a low

residual value

and so let's say

somebody leased

a vehicle

and their company was paying

for it they might set

a residual value of

$100 bucks so in other

words the

company was paying for

all the depreciation of that

vehicle during the life of the lease

and then at the end of the lease

since they were responsible

for the residual value

and they could buy it

they could buy it for $100 bucks

well it was worth much more than that

so that was a way for people to be able

to get for instance

get their company to pay for a lease

and then they could buy it out at the end for

nothing but there's very few

opened end leases today

so it sounds like open leases are not really a

thing anymore most are closed leases

where the bank is the one covering

the residual value of the vehicle

so interesting

okay a couple more here dad

and then we got to go to core guy

he has a very very kind contribution

we've got here from Eric

can you ground your current lease

by trading in with a different dealership

than when you got the first vehicle

ground the lease and terminate

and return the lease to vehicle

no

okay can you

trade it in

let's say you lease the Toyota

and

you've decided you've had enough of Toyota

and now you want a Honda

so your question basically is

well can I ground my vehicle at the Honda dealership

no

what you can do

is you can trade it in at the Honda dealership

and then

you are dependent upon them

to make sure that that vehicle

gets back to a Toyota dealership

and it gets turned in

and the lease gets terminated

but

the

dealership would have to agree to do that

on your behalf

would a dealership agree to do that

in many cases it would

now you also have to realize that during

COVID

where

so many customers were buying their

lease vehicles

and the captive

lenders didn't want

editors to be able to get their hands on their leases

they made it a point

to not allow people to trade

in their lease cars

anywhere other than at the brand

that they leased it from originally

so to be clear though

that's this idea of like

a third party doing the buyout

of the lease essentially what you were describing is

will the leasing company

allow a third party to buy out

the vehicle move all the money around and all that

and during the pandemic

a lot of these captive leasing companies

even though the contracts had already previously been

written they went ahead and said no you can't

okay so I think we experienced that with Honda

for example so it is something to keep in mind

here and then there are also dead

something I don't know if the question has been asked in the chat yet

we're going to go to CoreGuy next

but there are also some brands that modified their lease contracts

to not even give you the option to buy the lease

vehicle at the end so that's another thing

that has changed in the post pandemic world

yes

many of the

lease companies took away your ability

to be able to buy the vehicle at the end

for the residual effect

Tesla's for example are Ford with their EVs

are two of the most notable from CoreGuy here

yes

I'm working a Mazda Pheave CX90 lease

it's great value right now considering the

incentives dealership says it qualifies

for the $7500 EV tax credit

but Google says only EVs made here

are eligible am I about to get

the rug pulled come time to sign

all the research we've done says

that the CX90P have is not

eligible for the $7500

EV tax credit so I'm

I'm on a lease

on a lease yeah see it's different

on a lease one of the reasons

that EVs lease so well

is it is much easier

for a lease vehicle

to qualify for the federal tax credit

because it's the leasing company

it is not the customer

okay and the leasing company

typically passes that savings

on to the customer

so

my suspicion would be

is that no you're not going to get

the rug pulled out from under you

because it's a lease

they can utilize

that $7500

on a lease okay

on a purchase they probably

cannot but on a lease they

can the way

it is as if leasing

fell into a loophole

that

allowed the federal tax credits

to be used for people

when it came to a lease

that they would not necessarily qualify for

if it were an outright purchase

or finance

man there's so many complexities

when it comes to buying a lease in a vehicle

this is really really really good stuff

from Joe here this is an outstanding show

you need to turn into a Q&A video and post it

I think we'll do exactly that

and I think I have a final question here dad

a different topic going deep like this

doing Q&A I think it's pretty valuable

what do you think dad?

well I kind of sort of enjoy it

it doesn't necessarily

garner us the same type of viewership

that some

of our other daily shows do

but I think the

for those who do

watch it

I think there is greater value

because we are going

much deeper into a subject

than we do in many other cases

and leasing

is both

simple

and complex at the same time

and you know I have said this to you

if you would have asked

my salespeople as a customer

well can you explain leasing to me?

they had no idea

you know most salespeople

don't

even actually come close to

understanding the entire

workings of a lease

I learned about leasing

in the 80s

and

literally had to

write them

work them using a

10 key calculator

understanding the selling price

adding the

don't age yourself here pops

don't date yourself

come on I'm 74 years old everybody knows

that you know

we started by

just adding up old

animal bones that we found laying

around okay that was like

our calculator

I have many animal bones do we have here

and

so

if you learn actually

how to calculate a lease

in the old days

you had a greater understanding

as to how leasing works

and I'm not going to suggest

that a lot of salespeople are lazy

but a lot of salespeople are lazy

and they don't want to know

all they want to do is sell the payment

they don't want to educate

their customer as to how

and why the payment works this way

what the benefits are

or what

what the issues there could be

they don't want to go they just

want to sell the payment

well you know I don't know

I believe people are entitled

to a little more information

than that so if they have

a better understanding

of what it is they're about the son up for

dad we're getting all sorts

of positive feedback from the community in the chat

we really appreciate I think we will do

shows like this a little bit more often

it feels really good and also from Joe here

dad pops was selling cars

when the third brake light became a requirement

you were selling trucks before Monroney

labels windows stickers were on them

yeah yeah yeah so

I was selling cars before they even

ever thought of a third brake light

okay I might have been selling

cars

before anybody said no really you have to

wear that seat belt

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