Asking out of curiosity. I plan to get a 15k miles per year lease because I think I’ll want to drive down to CA from WA once, visit Yellowstone, and maybe SLC (not drive more than to once each destination). I know I can fly, but every now and then I am thinking about hitting the roads for a long drive.
So, do you leave your fun car at home and take that rented Fusion on long drives? what about monthly 500 mile trips?
You lease a nice car to enjoy it, but will drive a Fusion for hours?
You paid for a nice car - drive it. Can always buy more miles in 3 years, and you never know what your driving patterns will be like between now and then (think 2020)
I do the math on what it costs me per mile to drive my leased car/s, look at how that compares to what the local rental place’s car/s will cost me per mile for this particular trip, then decide if the savings is worth sitting in the rental car for the duration of said trip. I’ll salt this calculation with my current prediction of whether I’ll burn through all the miles on my lease. Typically the answer is no to the rental, but occasionally a particularly long trip and/or the allure of checking out a different car (eg. a Turo rental) turns that into a yes.
Well, I plan to drive the one I lease. Fusion was just an example of a common rental car.
Was just curious about the patterns of other folks, since I did not see as frequently 15k miles lease deals get posted.
Rent.
My corporate contract makes renting cheaper for long distance driving than depreciating my own vehicles. Top tier status across the major rental car agencies and I’m usually in a luxury class or higher at a midsize rate.
I only drive about 7500 mile per year, but I did 12k on my M4 lease since I do a 1500-2000 mile trip to the East Coast one a year plus other car cruises/rallies. The extra $40/mo was well worth it to me since I would just be renting a car that I did not enjoy driving.
Rent for longer distances. Usually rent premium or luxury class, and chase sapphire has primary cdw, so no worries about rock chips on the windshield.
Obviously. There are always nice/nicer rentals 
I only rent if I plan to drive there and fly back or if I need a car at my destination, or destination rental to pick up out of state lease. Otherwise I drive what I already payed for.
Does Audi still include Silvercar with purchases or leases?
Yes silvercar included with lease of etron
OP here is the news: a lease is a rental!!!
Do the math. Usually the mileage overage will net out close to what the rental costs. Then it’s a question of whether you want to drive your nice car or Enterprise’s Altima.
Gotta go Hertz, I book a midsize sedan and wind up being able to just pick anything (most of the time). Last time I booked a Jetta, wound up with a Gladiator. It made me learn how much I have no interest in owning a Gladiator.
Yeah that was just an Altima joke. I guess I didn’t land it (imagine actively choosing a Nissan Altima!).
I’m fortunate to be Exec Elite at National (from travel in the before times) and they always get me in an luxury car for 40/day corporate midsize rate. Love National so much.
I couldn’t imagine actively doing that.
As with other’s answers it all depends. One time I had to make a trip from CT to PA, then to RI, back to PA, and then back to CT. 1006 miles (exactly) within 48 hours, we were on the road for almost 14 hours of that time. It cost me less than $110 to rent a mid-size suv. I was comfortable, and you can’t beat 11 cents a mile.
Usually it comes down to how much you’re going to drive during your trip. For example, I drove from CT to FL once, the trip there racks up miles, and so does the trip back, but the week in FL the car saw less than 10-15 miles a day. There wasn’t much value in renting that car, but we needed the space.
And everyone forgets about a variety of rental farts. There are probably more of them than in your average loaner, but at least in a loaner they come from the same brand of customers.
If I wanted to rent a car every time for a drivable vacation, I’d get a more modest daily driver.
That being said, Free Supercharging does make a difference!