2018/19 was quiet for my household but we will either buy out or trade up the wife mobile in 2020 since her lease is due this summer. I think the wife is leaning towards
Retail price for her 2016 touareg is 26-29k here and the buy out price is somewhere around 25k. Aside from some dents in her passenger rear door and a front bumper that is scraped on one side it should be a clean break at the end of the lease. Will get insurance to fix the bumper in the near future. Tires may need to be replaced, I've got to find out what the minimum tread depth is to know for sure.
We do have three rows of Weather Tech mats and winter wheels and tars but I can off those in craigslist pretty easily and use the proceeds towards a winter tire package on a new something.
The truck has been good for us, but the head unit is really outdated and a PITA to use for anything ever. There is an intermittent rattle in the steering column that should get looked at before the warranty expires.
The trade should be for something with similar space but more fuel efficiency. Mazda CX5, CX30 (smaller but cool), Rage4 Hybrid or not (I get family and friends discount from the employee program so I save about enough to cover Freight/PDI/Taxes, advertised price is my OTD cost on new and the 2020 Rav is pretty much bug free and cleaned up if built in one of the Canada plants.
Maybe I could consider some lightly used thing, I'd like to have a
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in the family but wife unit rejects them and has
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face when I mention them.
It will probably be Jap/Korean/American, German stuff is a bit pricey and too full of tech, I actually would just keep the Touareg since it has a great trans and the raspy but adequate 3.6L VR6 and
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brakes that I think will last the majority of the car's life. It also runs on 87 which is
Other cars I like are the JGC which is proving to be fairly reliable, and look nice. Our Santa Fe held up great but I don't like the new ones.