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Originally Posted by krhodes1
I generally don't get the fascination with leasing (baring unusually amazing incentives). For my last three cars I have run the numbers both ways, and I can't see that you save anything at all by leasing once you figure in the fees, even if you end up selling the car in only a few years. Made worse in my state in that you don't save anything on the sales tax here.
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States where you do save on sales tax + deductability of lease payments for business purposes make leasing very attractive, not to mention BMW allows you to transfer out of your lease as well. For relatively little effort, you can stay in a new car and rotate through them fairly frequently.
For states where there is no sales tax benefit, you are right, it becomes a bit dicier to find value. Traditionally though, BMW (and Mercedes) heavily incentivize their leases with high residuals. Not so much with the 2 series at least early on in the 2016 model year.