<prompt> Human: First things first, heres my budget:I have no debt except the 8k I have left on my car worth around 16k, so another 1.5 year on that. I spent around 2k last year in car upkeep which I budget and it looks like I am going to need to spend 1,500 in the next few weeks, thus depleting more than half the car maintenance budget in the first month of the year. The lease would be 600 month plus 3k down. Doing the math on a lease is attractive in the short term. Once you look at it on the 10 year scale its pretty terrible compared to keeping one car for that long IE once its paid off, that 4-600 month goes into savings. There is also a value on the time spent taking a car in for maintenance. In the short term, the payment for a lease on a new car is the same as my current payment monthly car maintenance fund so it nets out. New car would be 0 maintenance fees for the life of the 3 year lease.I realize Im at least partially trying to rationalize buying a fun new car. I also know I have it in my budget to do so. What do you guys think? Oh and if you have any thoughts on my budget, non car related, Id be happy to hear thoughts on that too!  <response>: So you wanna spend 24.6k over the next 3 years and then not own a car? I wish I was that rich. 