Many automakers seem to advertise leases more than almost any other deal or incentive these days, but why is that? The short answer is that they make more money by essentially giving people a long-term rental with the option to buy the car at the end of the term. Why sell a car for forty grand when you can rent it to someone for twenty thousand dollars, then sell it to the renter for another twenty-five and come out on top?
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