<html><head><base href="x-msg://369/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Depends on your mileage.<div>Lease price is 100% deductible, assuming business vehicle. Otherwise just depreciation, and interest on the loan is deductible.</div><div>A lease didn't make sense in my situation, as there was a premium for the extra kilometres/miles I needed to drive.</div><div>With a purchase, you may have some years free of payments, not possible with a lease.</div><div>Things down there may be different.</div><div>John Ross</div><div>Windsor, Nova Scotia<br><div><div>On 07-11-2011, at 3:44 PM, Tom Driscoll wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font size="2" face="Arial">List,</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">  Anyone out there lease their service vehicle ?</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">My Hyundai Santafe has been great but it's bigger than I need and I'm at the tipping point so to speak. That is big $ repairs on the horizon.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"> I'm thinking about a fuel efficient little wagon --Kia soul, nissan cube. Chevy  whatever it it's called.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"> Any way your collective thoughts, experiences appreciated.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"> Tom Driscoll</font></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>