BMW 3 series x drive: lease of buy?

[Anonymous]

Looking at 2019s - would it make more sense to lease a BMW?

[Anonymous]

Always lease they are cheap to lease.

[Anonymous]

lease it my dear

[Anonymous]

Not enough info provided to give a good answer.
How long do you want to keep it?
Does your job allow for you to write it off as an expense?
There’s no blanket right or wrong answer to this without more context.

[Anonymous]

BMW subsidizes leases. It's generally a bad idea to buy them. Go to leasehacker and find a deal. BMWs lease for way less than you think

[Anonymous]

For example, this guy is leasing 330 x-drives for 340ish a month
https://forum.leasehackr.com/t/discountsales2020-nov-best-bmw-deals-11-1-update-13-off-i3-starts-at-97-mo-inception-m4-m5-740-loaner/127403

Would be silly to buy new

[Anonymous]

Neither. Lot of reliability issues with the newer models

[Anonymous]

Such a striver car. No.

[Anonymous]

As someone who owned a BMW, I will never buy another BMW. I would consider leasing one, though. Look on swapalease and find someone looking to get out of their lease.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think that leasing makes much sense if you don’t put 10,000 or more miles on per year. I put 6,000 miles per year on my car. So I buy. I also plan to keep cars for 6+ years. So I buy. In short, the lease / buy decision is a rough formula with inputs for avg usage and a lot of personal things like how long you want to drive the car and how you prioritize cars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think that leasing makes much sense if you don’t put 10,000 or more miles on per year. I put 6,000 miles per year on my car. So I buy. I also plan to keep cars for 6+ years. So I buy. In short, the lease / buy decision is a rough formula with inputs for avg usage and a lot of personal things like how long you want to drive the car and how you prioritize cars.

Keep in mind that BMWs don't hold value and start to disintegrate around the 70K mark. The cost of repairs and maintenance makes it a bad buy once you are out of warranty.

Lease a BMW, buy Lexus.

[Anonymous]

I always pay cash and drive cars into the ground but mine are cheap and my understanding of luxury cars is that it’s better to lease, particularly if you don’t want to still be driving it in 10 years.

[Anonymous]

Do both! Let someone else lease is for 3 yrs, then buy it.....for half the price of new. Of course, its wouldn't be a 2019 model, but rather a 2016/2017 model but.....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think that leasing makes much sense if you don’t put 10,000 or more miles on per year. I put 6,000 miles per year on my car. So I buy. I also plan to keep cars for 6+ years. So I buy. In short, the lease / buy decision is a rough formula with inputs for avg usage and a lot of personal things like how long you want to drive the car and how you prioritize cars.

Keep in mind that BMWs don't hold value and start to disintegrate around the 70K mark. The cost of repairs and maintenance makes it a bad buy once you are out of warranty.

Lease a BMW, buy Lexus.

I will second this. We are on our second and last BMW SUV. It's 6 years old with only about 50,000 miles on it and we've spent $4000 in repairs already this year, including a faulty sunroof that was shorting some of the electrical systems. If you get a BMW definitely lease and get rid of it by the 3 year mark.

[Anonymous]

If you really want a BMW, lease it. I owned three BMW. I kept one from 90s (7 series) because we love it, and I still drive 2006 3 series). I always buy my cars new and keep them for 10+ years. I would never buy the BMW that they build this days. I thought if I ever want to drive a new BMW again, I am going to lease it.