Leasing can be a good choice if you have good credit, dont drive more than 12k mikes per year and trade up cars every 3-5 yrs. if youre going to finance new cars with large down payments, people can go ahead and show me on paper how thats a better financial move, but its really not. Say you put 5k down on the R and finance it for 5 years. Your payments will be high, youll pay taxes on the lump purchase, not just the payments like with leasing, and youll pay interest for the life of the loan. In the end after its all paid off, sure youll have "equity", but you will have also paid out a lot more money over that term than you woukd have leasing. Anyone who disagrees with me can go ahead and do the math.
Caveats are you must take good care of vehicles, have top tier credit to get the lowest money factor, no down payment or drive off fees etc, must not drive more than said miles per year etc. if you have a small business too you can write off the payments etc.
If none of that applies to you then dont lease.
For reference, my car was bought cash after less than a year of payments, i own it outright and we leased my wife a tiguan and got an extremely good deal. Everyones situation is different and there is no blanket lease or dont lease rule. For some people it works well and for others its a nightmare. If youbdont understand how leases work and how they can work for you and only want a lower monthly payment, thats a bad reason to lease since youll most likely get into a bad lease and not know how to negotiate a good lease. Leasing is just another way to finance a car.