# Don't buy a new car to get better gas mileage

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**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\
**Created:** [January 11, 2008, 9:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dont-buy-a-new-car-to-get-better-gas-mileage/41637 "2008-01-11T09:32:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![snowracer101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@snowracer101](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/snowracer101)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 3:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dont-buy-a-new-car-to-get-better-gas-mileage/41637/58 "2008-01-11T15:25:11Z")

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I can talk about the leasing a bit.

I leased a 2002 jaguar x-type. I put like $2500 down and my payments were $200 a month for 24 months.

So essentially I paid $7300 to drive a decent AWD car for 2 years.  
I ended up getting out of the lease though because I had 12K miles a yr and I was doing 12K miles in about 8 months.

Leasing is good on some cars (mostly domestics) because you don’t have to worry about selling the car and taking a huge hit, also you can negotiate the lease too.

My friend leased a f150 4x4 extended cab STX for $1,500 down and $58 a month. that is a danm good deal

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