sxty8goats said:
If you have to lease the car you can't afford the car. GTO, Honda or Yugo, leasing is a bad idea.
Before I begin, let me assure you that I intend no offense, and I apologize in advance if you become so. I am just posting this to make sure we don't have this website devolve into what most others generally are. I love this site, and it's very valuable to me. One thing that I like best about it is the level of discussion that we often have here. It's by far one of the more mature and intellectual sites I've seen. With that said, please read the below with an open mind, and as I said before, I do not mean insult anyone here, I just want us to be more careful.
I've seen comments like this before around here, and pointed out something similar to it once prior. I'm getting worried that some people on this board may be developing a sense of hubris that is not healthy for us. Owning a GTO is definately a small, wonderful club to belong to. However, we should be careful in the future not to become a group of people that excludes anyone.
It could be taken by someone who want to be insulted that you were saying, to paraphrase, that people who are not as well off financially as you may be undeserving of this car. A person could mis-interpret this to seem that you are attacking (as you said yourself) them and implying that they are not as good as you are for whatever reason.
I'm not this person, though I'm more financially challenged that most of the people on this board. It seems that many of us here do very well in the money department. Unfortunately, I have to get by on less than others. I'm not insulted, but I would suggest that you choose your words more carefully in the future because you might cause people that could contribute a lot to this site to leave because they perceive it to be elitist and an unfriendly place.
Please, let's try to keep everyone who visits this great site constructive and willing to participate. We shouldn't drive anyone away. Even though I can't afford the car I want when I want it, doesn't mean I shouldn't have one, right?
With that said, I think having this option would be good for someone like myself, primarily because I really would love to have a GTO very soon. I also am anticipating my financial situation to improve greatly in the next couple of years, so with this option, I would be getting an easier monthlier payment for the time I'm not doing so well, and then will be able to pay off the car when I'm doing better, or give it up as the case may be when the program ends in whatever time I choose.
The more I read about this car here and elsewhere, the more I find it so difficult to wait for a better deal to come along. Man...I love this car. The more options they come out with for people to obtain one, just means I'm THAT much closer to having it myself, rather than just living vicariously through you guys
-Chris