If you have any equity in it, why would you turn it in? You can trade it and use the equity
I sold our lease Subaru for $5500 more than was owed.
If you paid more for a slower car you're an idiot, if you bought a BMW or some luxury car you're an idiot as VW is just as nice or better, if you have a faster car you're an idiot because you probably overpaid and all I have to do is go Stage 2 and I'll smoke you! It goes on and on. We all like whatever car we chose of course but there are other things out there so respect peoples rides as that is why there are so many choices! Sorry, off on a tangent myself here!
First half I was following you.I just turned in my '13 CR-V lease early for a '16 HR-V. They actually paid me $2000 to turn in my car early, my car was in great shape and slightly under on mileage. Great deal leasing that car for me anyway!
I have a '13 Fiat Abarth that I leased and I will be turning it back in. I leased as I was concerned about reliability and wanted an "out" if I needed it. Reliability has been rock solid and I have had no issues that worry me at all, but the vaule on the car is not there. If I buy it I would have to pay more that it is worth as depreciation on Fiats is horrible. So I will not buy it. Simple, and I'll get a Civic Si then.
I like leasing so far anyway, it has been great for me. If I had purchased my Fiat my payments would have been higher, and I would currently be badly underwater on the loan. To the tune of several thousand dollars. Yay lease.
I have owned two VWs and I will never own one again. No way. I even looked at the current GTI as I like them too but I have been bitten twice now. Plus my wife says she wants to puke every time she sees one, man does she loathe the cars looks. No idea why. Regardless VW is not for me, I have zero desire to know my service guys on sight and they me. My VW's were and 04 and an 08 so this is not quite ancient history. I hope you love your GTI! I think a lot of the breaks are people doing the stage 1 and 2 tunes on the GTIs and blowing the turbos and such. The current gen GTI is on, what, the fifth version of the turbo trying to sort out the failures? I think with stock tune you'll be fine.
The last thing I hate (and I mean HATE) is the GTI community. I follow vwvortex and other sites and man I have to say every time I see a GTI I think there goes a douche lol. It's not fair I know but man there are some GTI owners that truly give the whole community a bad name. Please, please don't take this personally. VW owners seem so sanctimonious and anyone that does not own the "Jesus car" is a moron it seems.
Hahahaha, truer words never spoken lol. I'm hoping to jump into an Si when my Abarth lease is up myself. Just waiting for more info - Honda is maybe taking too much time on the roll out here....
I suspect that you may have answered your own question.
I did end up leasing the GTI. I compared GTI to CivicX because they both have certain trim levels that compete on price. And, the new CivicX is turbo like the GTI, sportiest of any generation of Civic, and appeals to people for similar reasons.
Hey the GTI is a great choice!
There's a reason why its always the benchmark when comparing hot hatches. I almost bought one back on 2012 but I got a really good deal on a used 2011 Si (it was a lease return). I modded the crap out of it too and it ran like I champ. I ended up selling her last year because I had to deploy. I still miss her to this day.. I had to settle for a more practical car that can deliver better MPG hence the 16 Civic.
