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Or people just enjoy having a car that they like? If you can afford it and you spend a lot of your time in your car, why not get one that you enjoy driving?

• scottLobster 6y ago
  It's the "if you can afford it" part that's at issue here. Sure if you have the money do whatever you want, but lots of people are leasing/financing cars because they can technically "afford" to spend 1/4 of their take-home salary on a monthly payment when they could never dream of buying the car outright even with years of savings. They're living at their means instead of within their means, let alone beneath their means. So the moment any financial difficulty comes their way they're screwed. It's especially irrational if it's just for extra enjoyment beyond necessary comfort. Someone who takes out a personal loan to buy all the blu-rays he wants would be called financially irresponsible, yet it seems perfectly reasonable to some to pay hundreds of dollars a month extra for that BMW or Range Rover.