For 2020 MY yes, 2019 retains the bonus/apology warranty
https://www.cars.com/articles/volkswagen-nixes-6-year-warranty-what-shoppers-need-to-know-407046
Adjusted my comment. Thanks for the heads-up @max_g , I hadn’t seen this.
I got this information from edmunds:
Preferred - 53% and $1935 incentives
However I don’t know where this $1935 incentives comes from. I don’t see it on the official websites (the websites shows stuff like loyalty, military, lease cash).
How do I get the dealer to apply this $1935 incentives?
They should automatically apply it in the deal. Tell them that you want an itemized quote and make sure that they’ve included that incentive when they send you the quote.
Search on the forum for how to structure an email asking for a quote–there’s tons of information on that. I would recommend your first correspondence being with a dealer that you don’t intend to worth with so that you can get the hang of it. Broadly, you want the information that you can use to fill in the fields on the leasehackr calculator.
Why $300? I think I’ve seen them for around $200 lately. So in 3 years you spend $7,200 and then can assess better what type of next car you want to have.
$15k car is about $17k loan when you add all sales tax, dealership and government fees.
$17k is more like $315 per months.
Why are you booing me? I’m right. I’m just trying to help here.
$300 was just a number that I chose based on the high end of OP’s modified stated budget.
I assumed that OP had funds available to pay taxes and fees upfront and rolled an extra $1000 into the amount financed to be conservative in case OP did not have all that ($15,000 selling price+$1000 excess needing to be financed=$16,000 total). My math still stands.
No it isn’t. It’s $297.22/mo.
Not exactly sure what the “them” is that you’re referring to here. Just so that no one is confused, I was trying to compare leasing a car around $300/mo vs. purchasing a 2019 Jetta.
When I first graduated from college, I got a leaf for $99+tax with $2500 total DAS + 2 years free DC charging. End up sold the leaf after 30 months and get positive equity for $600, with post sale rebates the total cost is nearly NOTHING for 36/12k… Insurance is like $100 a month. That saves me like thousands…
That’s the good old 1st gen EV era… not anymore… they are now a lot more expensive than 3~4 years ago. Charging station now usually are pack with EVs so unless you can charge at home or somewhere you know that you can 100% charge the car when ever you get there. A petrol engine still is more convenience for most.
Hyundai Ioniq is getting a lot of hype right now for low payments.
Me? Booing? Just don’t like pulling numbers the way you did to suit your theory 
Assuming higher payment for the lease and lower payment for the loan and boom - you are correct.
Just like statistics
Oh, wow. Ok, then. Keep up the good work! 
So why not then to assume using the same $1k toward the lease and reduce $300 to $270 if we want to be exact?
Loving the assurance of thyself 
As my teacher in business law would say - the answer it depends. What rate have you used? I used 4.5% for a used car loan.
2019 Jetta with no negotiations ads shows as $219 with probably $2k DAS. One broker in CA offers it as $179 with $800 for 2019 Jetta lease. Lets then use these numbers for your math. That is $200 with nothing out of pocket for your proposed 2019 Jetta.
Yes, just felt luckily enough to catch it 
Don’t listen to those who tell you to get an Elantra, Sentra, or Camry SE. They are not fun to drive, and you will loose more money trying to sell either one a year down the road. Try the Audi A4 Titanium, Volvo S60 T5, Accord 2.0T Sport, VW Jetta GLI. They are all great cars that are doable within your range.
Since this is your first lease, and you have no history, they may require a 2-3k down payment.
Drive what makes you happy, and something that you can pay for. With the $400 range, plenty of solid cars.
Listen to Karina, she knows what she’s talking about.
Sorry but you have no credibility when it comes to telling a college student or young grad how to be fiscally responsible
Well she apparently bankrolls at least one of them, from a certain perspective she probably knows quite a bit!
If the target of the monthly payment is 400, total 36 month lease should be…400x36= 14400, If you put 2-3k down payment, there’s also drive off on top of it, typically 1~2k. Let’s say you put down 2k and drive off is 1k total 3k out of pocket, 14400-3000=11400, then you divided 11400 by 35(35 month payment left) = 325.71(included tax). Honda Accord is very doable, don’t go for Volvo, If I were you, I’ll go with Toyota Corolla Hatch manual! Affordable yet fun to drive unless you live in the city… get the auto. You will be very comfortable with the whole car payment, even with insurance your monthly car spending should be under $400 easily.
But, but, having a nice car motivates you, or at least it did last week!
This is really petty and unncessary.
Made my rate assumptions clear in my previous post:
I didn’t pull numbers to suit my theory. To be clear, my “theory” is that when compared to leasing, buying cheap cars with long B2B warranties can also be good for people on tight budgets. I’m not a member of the buying-is-better-than-leasing cult. Obviously, a lower lease payment (assuming no money was put down on a down payment to lower that monthly payment) yields a lower total out of pocket expense over the life of the lease and that increases the delta between the cost of the lease and purchase. The decision to purchase or lease is deeply situational.
I tried to be helpful and show some very basic math to give guidelines for comparison based on some realistic numbers (some that OP had even suggested) just to help OP consider something they possibly hadn’t. In doing that I had to make some assumptions. Sorry if you didn’t like my assumptions. 
I understand what you’re saying (and I’m not saying you’re wrong), but no one was talking about leasing a Jetta. I was helping the OP regarding a Mazda 3 lease. Separately, I was also simply trying to compare a $300/mo lease (regardless of car) to a $15,000 car purchase. If you want to make a comment comparing a $200/mo lease to buying a 2019 Jetta, then go right ahead! But you don’t have to attack my assumptions or my math to do it. Especially when there was nothing wrong with any of it.
None of this is worth getting into an argument with a stranger on the internet over. My life won’t be affected no matter what the OP does, just thought it would be nice to bring it up some considerations since I wouldn’t have necessarily made that comparison when I was fresh out of undergrad.