First off, thanks to all the experts on LH - been doing a ton of reading on here and depth of knowledge is pretty incredible.
My current lease expires in 2 months and I’m struggling to pick next vehicle. Think I’m a somewhat unusual in that I drive less than 5k miles/yr, personally like benefits of leasing and, while I like cars, just don’t see value in going luxury given how expensive it is to live in my city and how little time I spend in the car. I park on the street and there are no chargers at my office so think that rules out an EV for me, unless somebody has a creative solution.
Pre-LH was leaning towards capitulating and just leasing Honda/Toyota, but become clear in reading LH that’s generally a bad idea. Could buy those brands but appears they depreciate more by model year than miles so not sure additional monthly cost makes sense (yes, I will do the math).
Want to be in SUV in next 3-5 yrs and there are a couple new releases I’m interested in buying lightly used down the road (new 4Runner or Lexus GX) so that pushes me towards doing one more lease; my mileage/make I’m generally interested in pushes me the other.
Any thoughts on what type of car would be best to buy or lease given all this?