There are some great advantages of leasing a car over buying outright or even getting the car on finance from your local car dealer.

The majority of cars are all within reach of the average motorist as long as they can keep up with the monthly repayments. With leasing you’re not tied to one manufacturer such as Ford but you can choose from a wide range of manufactures such as Audi, BMW and Mercedes, and then set your monthly repayment budget which will then in turn give you a list of car models that are within your budget.

Your lease agreement will usually be quite flexible in terms of length, but you normally find that a 12 month lease contract is the most common but they can go up to 48 months. Most motorists will keep their car for a 36 month / 3 year period where as people who tend to do high miles will only get a 12 month contract.

Most leasing companies will ask you for a fixed amount of annual mileage, 12,000 or 15,000 are ample for most people but take into consideration that you may be charged if you go over this limit, so it would be slightly better to overestimate.

The key factor for your monthly repayments is the value of your leased car at the end of your contract. Taking a quick look at car deprecation charts will give you a good clue as to what cars you should avoid or that will have a higher monthly payment such as Alfa Romeos which are notoriously bad at deprecation and can drop as much as 10k in their first year on the road.

If you’ve done your research you will know that Audis hold their market value very well, so choosing an Audi car leasing plan might be a very wise financial decision. You may think that with the Audi name comes a high price tag which to an extent is true but leasing a car is a lot more affordable than the other traditional methods of payment that you may be more familiar with.