tailieunhanh - Reading comprehension success 3rd edition_7

Tham khảo tài liệu 'reading comprehension success 3rd edition_7', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | POSTTEST To Lease or Not to Lease Planning to lease a car because you don t think you can afford to buy Think again. Leasing can end up being just as expensive as buying and you don t even get to the keep the car. Most people who are thinking about leasing are attracted to this option because they believe it will cost them less money. And they re right it is cheaper but only in the short term. For example if you were to lease a brand-new Subaru Forester with 4 000 down you might pay 300 per month for the car. If you were to buy the same car with 3 000 down you would pay closer to 400 per month. Over a three-year lease that s 3 600 a big savings. But after your lease is over you have to give the car back. If you want to keep driving you ll either have to put another down-payment on another lease or if you have the option to buy the car you ll have to pay thousands of dollars to purchase the vehicle dollars that won t be spread out in more manageable monthly payments. Many people want to lease because they can drive a more upmarket car than they might otherwise be able to afford. For example if your monthly budget allowed you to spend 300 on a car you might be able to lease a brand new Ford Explorer. For the same price you might have to buy an Explorer that was two or three years old with 50 000 miles or buy a new but considerably less expensive make and model. A lease therefore allows you to drive the latest models of more expensive cars. But when your lease is over you will have to return that Explorer. Whatever car you can afford to buy you get to keep it and it will always have a resell or trade-in value if you want to later upgrade to a newer car. Furthermore people who lease cars are often shocked and appalled by how much they must pay when the lease is over. Most leases limit you to a certain number of miles and if you go over that allotment you must pay for each mile. As a result at the end of a lease you may end up paying thousands of dollars in mileage .