Lease - Porsche or Third Party?

**invader zog** · #1 (**permalink**) 03-22-2007, 06:14 AM

I normally *NEVER* lease my car through the dealers because their numbers usually are so terrible. Porsche appears to be running a leasing special on the Cayman's that are getting their price to be roughly the same as the one my credit union quoted me.

The credit union quote is for 15K miles at the same monthly payment that Porsche was charging for 12K miles. I probably will be plenty fine with 12K miles (I have a 8 mile round trip commute to work), but it is a check mark in the credit union's favor.

I was curious as to what advantages if any there is to leasing through Porsche?

Do they offer "get out of lease early" specials or something else that would make me want to go with them? Are they more or less lenient about end of lease "damage".

For example, I've turned in my last few Porsche's with not very much life left on the clutches and brakes. As far as I'm concerned (and my experience with third party leasing companies so far), that is wear and tear... but I don't know if Porsche is more or less anal than a third party company.

Thoughts?

**invader zog** · #2 (**permalink**) 03-22-2007, 05:36 PM

BTW, I also noticed a thread from LeaseCompare.com that quoted rather high residuals but when I went to the site, the residual %s I got were significantly lower.