[yrralis1]

When it comes to leasing Mercedes is great at handing over the car until that person wants out of that car . They are completely inflexible on any aspect of an early lease termination . In fact even if the person does a "one pay"(like I did) they will NOT refund any partial payment . In my case I even asked them what if the person dies (meaning myself) .. do you hold his estate to the contract ? YES they do !!!!!!

With MB if the payements are somewhere decent there will still be a HUGE disparity between the lease buyout and wholesale so he is stuck , in that car, in that service ,for that term even if he dies --UNLESS he wants to pay BIG MONEY . Hence the term "financial crucifiction" .

In contrast BTW --BMW os leaps and bounds above MB with being flexible and they suck too !!!

The SL63 does have huge discounts and so do the former Sl cars . In fact the former model has sold better than the new one . You think dealerships are giving away cars at 40K off MSRP because the car is terrific???
I don't.

Of course a new car every two years sounds wonderful but a cash deal buy with a private sale or even a trade in will beat the finance charge of a lease on any of these high end cars . Plus the lomger one keeps a car the less transactions for dealerships to profit . Even those who share the famous rant about being a business owner only take into account a three year per car timeline . Hold the Porsche for 6 years and then lets do a buy vs lease comparo.

Ultimately --it comes down to owning the car . If I saw your friends Mercedes before drive off I see 36 expensive payments to rent their car . If I see a Porsche owner write a 100K check for a car I see one hundred thousand dollars of equity . Big difference .