The Ford Fiesta is Starting the Party

Want to lease new cars that are environmentally friendly and won’t damage your pocketbook? The new Ford Fiesta is a great option. Conceived more than 3 years ago in a British lab, the Fiesta has a 6 speed automatic transmission and gets 40 m.p.g. on the highway. How does it do it? In part, with power for the alternator and air conditioner coming from an ancillary motor, and a mechanism that lessens fuel output when the car is decelerating.

Granted, with this car you’re not going for power. Its engine is 1.6 liters, 4 cylinders and has 120 horsepower. The four door hatchback style and the sedan are well priced at under $15,000 but if you’re looking for car leasing companies, you can pay a sliver of that in a monthly payment.

Part of the car’s popularity is driven by an application that allows potential buyers to text “reserve” to Ford. For those that did, they will receive a technology driven upgrade that includes Bluetooth, directions that compute traffic delays, and mp3 hook ups.

Car leases are a great way to go, especially if you want to stay with the up to date autos that everyone is tweeting about. Look for the Ford Fiesta if you decide to lease new cars.

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Drive it on Home

That new car smell. The carpets are clean, the dashboard is dustless, the windows have no grime or dirt. Your new car has all of the features and amenities; the GPS can guide you anywhere you need to go, and as the windows roll down you feel the breeze and smile – this is the life, this is what getting from point A to point B is all about. And you press your foot down on the accelerator and feel the power of almost three hundred horses whinny at your slightest caprice.

The leather on the steering wheel is warm now, from the heat of your hands as you navigate through traffic, feeling like no one can hold you back. You check the speedometer, to make sure you’re not going too fast, and get a precise digital reading of 64 miles per hour. Just fast enough so that you get to where you need to and feel like you haven’t wasted any time, but not so fast that you get pulled over by a lonely cop.

You can achieve this easily, and without the huge effort of buying a new car. Leasing a car is much easier, and car leasing deals make it more affordable. Try leasing a car today, and you will go home satisfied.

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Car Leases to Car Sharing

Okay, car leasing companies aren’t going anywhere, but here is a new movement in the car leases industry that is rapidly gaining momentum.

In San Francisco, a new car sharing company called SprideShare is intent on allowing users to share each other’s cars for $5 to $8 per hour. State law is a current impediment to the car sharing dream. But a new bill will allow insurance companies to legalize car sharing, and if it passes, it may become law.

The average car sits idle 90% of the time, but this for profit company wants to change the way cars are used. If the pilot program succeeds with around 30 cars, it will continue to grow. Currently, City CarShare is a non-profit San Francisco group that has 325 cars, and looks forward to the expansion of car sharing into suburban areas.

Today there are already a few car sharing companies out there – Relay Rides of Baltimore and soon moving to Boston, Whipcar in London, and Gettaround in San Francisco, which supports the bill.

Maybe one day, in an entirely sustainable community, no one will actually own a car, and car leases will go by the hour. Maybe.

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Buying vs. Leasing a New Car

Buying a new car is expensive. Leasing a new car is not. Leasing a car is a great idea for short term drivers, i.e. three years or less. This is because you wind up not shelling out as much money as you would for a new car – the catch is, you don’t have any car after that.

When you buy a new car, you pay a lot of cash out of pocket, and the value of your vehicle depreciates with every mile driven. But for the long term, it’s not so bad, because once the car is paid off, it’s yours, and it still retains a minimal value. For the short term, however, leasing a car saves you more money than buying a car.

Car leases are a great way to try out a new car, or to have a car if you can’t afford a new car, and don’t want to buy a used clunker. So if you find yourself in this spot, think about a New York lease. Brooklyn car especially are great to try out for short term, and with no commitment, you simply give them back at the end of the lease. It’s a lot like buying a house versus renting an apartment. You choose which you would rather.

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