Leasing risks for a teenager

[DailyDriven]

This should be an ongoing thread as it comes up fairly often in different iterations.

Cheapest lease deals for my 16 year old niece?

She does not have very much money to spend, she just needs a bare minimum car to get her from point A to point B. Only requirement is to be economical. Her dad is showing me $6000 13 year old cars with 150k miles like the honda insight, but this just seems like a huge gamble to me. you guys have any insight?

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My thoughts are the same pretty much at this point as well:

@DailyDriven

I see this from a different perspective and have “been there, done that” with the teenagers driving bit.

The proverbial “10 year old beater” was almost as much from an insurance perspective as a new car when leased. Prior to Covid and today’s awful deals, we were able to swing 7.5k and 10k mile leases that were well under $300 per month on well-equipped and new Honda Civics (including a 6 speed Si) that were safe, reliable and under warranty.

Would do that again in a heartbeat. Now it would be an AWD Altima, Rogue or a Murano for $300 or less per month depending on the deal and Nissan incentives. Maybe a Frontier or Pathfinder as well.

Check with your insurance agent on the cars and the cost. I would expect that you will hear that the liability is the larger issue and not so much the collision coverage.