@jd81 Seems you missed where I mention that different manufacturers offer different “percentages”.
I dont need to removed from this forum for sharing a simple belief which saves literally everyone money. If the 1% percent rule wasn’t some sort of resemblance of what the goal is with a payment, we’d all be driving $500 dollar per month, 25k cars. Obviously I mention it in the post and you just skim over it to type up a storm instead. What are you even on about?
Me personally, there are other Japanese AWD cars that lease better for essentially the same function of the Forester which is why I said that. 1% rule for an AMG is difficult, but for BMW is easy and if you aren’t picky, they are both luxury car brands for example.
Same follows suit with cross-shopping a Subaru with a Toyota or Honda. Traditionally, Hondas and ESPECIALLY Toyotas lease better overall than Subarus. Now I don’t know how into Subarus OP is, but for the same MSRP he can get a CRV for cheaper and save himself a few bucks which was the whole point of my comment. Whether or not thats a good lease wasn’t what I was basing my comment towards which is why I said “For a Forester, I don’t know the deal”.