Pretty damn well said.

The other thing is I'd be getting out of the lease and into a real purchase, which is good for my sanity. I am constantly worried about dings/mileage.

Plus it's not like I can't go back to a 3'er right? It just wouldn't be my baby though that I have now.

 

Quick o/t question: Subaru's site says the Evo has power folding mirrors?? Is this true?!

 

i believe that's a japanese thing.

 

OK that sounds more plausible. Plus I noticed no folding mirror control switches.

 

Not only has the service at my Acura dealership been great, I have become friends with one of the master techs and he does my mods and such off-the-clock. Any work that needs to be done now that my warranty is up, he can do for me on the side with his "cost" on parts instead of retail and his off-clock labor rate.

I'm giving up a lot to leave such a great situation, but again Acura doesn't have any performance cars below the NSX and I'm looking for a turbo car more than anything else right now. Plus I might be moving by the end of the year and if that happens I lose the benefit of buying an Acura anyway.

 

webguy... are you webguyIS from is300.net? if so, do you remember me? hehe....we've migrated...

 

Hah! Hey bro I do remember you. Got the email notification and said, "Damn I wonder if that's the same Roku guy..."

Did you get an Evo or are you a fond follower?

 

hahaha... i plan on picking one up. when i first started reading .net (back in 99) i wanted an IS so bad... now I want an EVO! but this time, i have the funds... aww yeah...


I'm just trying to do as much research as I can... i'll probably get one this month..


ps... how are things goin on .net? do you still visit?

 

You should head on back over, the PL is alive and kickin as usual.

Yeah I'm in the same research mode still, but as you can see I am severely itching for one of these things. Earliest I could have my blue evo would be next Wednesday.

 

blue IS, blue 330, blue EVO... i'm starting to see a pattern here...

i'm goin with black... cause its the shizzle... hehe

 

And I had a blue Civic before all that (never got the blue IS though).

http://webguysi.330i.net

Yes blue is my color, fo' shizzy izzy.

 

ahh. thats right... you never got the IS.....

 

Yah, damn glad i didn't either -- it would have been an autoshwag. :O

 

Perhaps more than you know.

Read the lease termination clause slowly. Several times.

Before buying my EVO, I looked into leasing a 330Xi, because local dealers aren't very good at service. The theory was that, if the BMW dealer messes up the service, I just walk away.

It doesn't work out that way. The lease termination clause in the contract was so convoluted that I called BMW USA to ask about it.

They laughed.

A BMW lease is a bit like being an Alabama field hand before the civil war. Or like a divorce settlement in California.

There are a lot of web sites devoted to lease transfers, because if you don't transfer it to someone else, you're pretty much stuck with the remaining payments, whether you have the car or not.

I hope you like seafood, because there doesn't seem to be any way to end a BMW lease early without getting scrod.

Manual folding mirrors.

 

Yes leases are hard to exit, but not in this case. Even though it's a lease, there is still a payoff since the car has been essentially financed by the finance company (hence why they hold the title/etc. in NY). That payoff right now would be covered by the trade-in plus some roll-over cash applied to my evo cost. No biggie, plus I might even squeeze some cash out of BMW for mileage I didn't use.