{"id":111,"date":"2026-05-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/template-preview.com\/wordpress\/avavamotors\/2026\/05\/28\/lease-or-loan-a-quick-decision-guide\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:00:00","slug":"lease-or-loan-a-quick-decision-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/template-preview.com\/wordpress\/avavamotors\/lease-or-loan-a-quick-decision-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Lease or loan? A quick decision guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">A lease is renting a car for a few years; a loan is buying it over a few years. Neither is always cheaper \u2014 it depends on how you drive and how long you keep your cars.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Choose a lease if<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You like a new car every three years, drive a predictable distance and want the lowest monthly payment. You hand it back and start again.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Choose a loan if<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You keep cars for a long time, drive a lot or want to modify them. Once it is paid off, the car is yours and the payments stop.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Watch the mileage<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leases price in a yearly mileage. Going over costs per mile at the end, so be honest about how far you drive.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Compare the totals<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Add up everything you will pay in each case over the same number of years, including the car&#039;s value at the end of the loan.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mileage, ownership and monthly \u2014 which one fits how you drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_avava_byline":"S. Kim","_avava_car":0,"_avava_notes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[42,47],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-finance","tag-leasing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/template-preview.com\/wordpress\/avavamotors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/template-preview.com\/wordpress\/avavamotors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/template-preview.com\/wordpress\/avavamotors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/template-preview.com\/wordpress\/avavamotors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/template-preview.com\/wordpress\/avavamotors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/template-preview.com\/wordpress\/avavamotors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/template-preview.com\/wordpress\/avavamotors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/template-preview.com\/wordpress\/avavamotors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/template-preview.com\/wordpress\/avavamotors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/template-preview.com\/wordpress\/avavamotors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}