如果车价一样,利率一样的话,lease期满后再把车买下来,和一开始就把车买下来,总费用是一样的吗?这样的话,lease刚开始可以付比较少的钱就可以把车拿下。
Finance: You can sell the car, it is like Mortgage, you can sell your own without the approval of bank.
Lease: You don't own the car, and you CAN only ask someone to TAKEOVER the lease.
Why Lease is cheaper than Finance.
After you finished your lease, you can pay a certain of amount and then you own the car. I.e. you finance the FULL value of the car, if you lease, you only finance difference between (Full value of the car MINUS the remaining amount after lease, or they call it "BUY back").
The remaining amount depends on car. Hence, Leasing Japanese car is cheaper than American car. A four year old Japanese worths (percentagewise) much much higher than American car.
If you want to drive brand new car for every FOUR years, and you don't want to spend money (and trouble) fixing cars (which starts to come out after six or seven years), lease is quite a good option, if not, finance or pay full amount (Best option). Finance interest rate is different from mortgage which is AMORTIZED which car finance is FLAT Rate.
Anyway, car dealers want those walk in all sign a contract. When customer says Finance is too high, well, there is a cheaper option, LEASE.
Lease, Finance, pay full amount, buy used car, buy after lease car, buy demo cars, depend on personal need, priority, financial situation, etc etc. Not easy.