Not always. While in business you can write off miles on your car and gas purchases, sometimes a lease deal makes better sense. I know for years we leased vehicles for our company until my father sold the business. Offhand I don't remember the situation, but it was more savings/better write offs/more protection leasing. If they were ALWAYS rip offs no one would ever lease and therefore auto makers would stop offering leases. Now for the moderators, I wonder if DeLorean offered any leases when new? _______________________________ Jack Stiefel - Radio Cape Vincent Live Internet Radio at http://www.radiocapevincent.com Take a trip to the historic http://www.sacketmansion.com Proud member of the http://www.audiorealm.com -----Original Message----- From: Warren Turkal [mailto:wturkal@xxxx] Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 6:37 PM To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [DML] kicked in the you-know-where On Friday 03 October 2003 02:56 pm, KiwiDean@xxxx wrote: > Aaarrgghh! I had the opportunity to acquire a lovingly kept 1983 Delorean. > My bank gave me a $15,000 line of credit to buy it, and the test-drive and > vechicle inspection was oh-so-sweet. But the car I am currently driving is > a leased vehicle, and when I tried to terminate the lease (as I would not > be able to maintain two cars andthat I was depending on the money saved > from the lease to pay back the line of credit), I was told that it would > cost me $8,000 to do so. Talk about a kick-in-the-pants! Leases are always rip offs. wt -- Warren Turkal President, GOLUM, Inc. http://www.golum.org To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/