how high the current leasing rate is or the new maximum can be.
At the moment I pay 150 EUR. But that is still from low interest rate times and I want to improve a bit. That’s why I’m aware that it will most likely be more now/has to be more. I had written it a bit evasively in one answer. The new rate should be allowed to be around 200 (if it’s a good offer, gladly also 20-30 more).
several examples have already been mentioned, maybe you say something about each?
I thought I had. Many here are simply too big and too expensive, but that was already clear to the posters and that’s okay. I had already mentioned MG4, R5, Corsa e, Hyundai Kona and Id.3 myself and I check them regularly. In terms of rate, the Corsa e is of course the most attractive, but it is also the oldest model and in tests it didn’t perform so well. I also have C3 and Fiat 600e on my radar, but here too it seems to me that there are simply no attractive deals. I had excluded the Spring because I mainly miss the power. The range is of course also an issue, but if I can cover 90% of trips that’s already okay. I might even treat myself to the i3, but for outdated technology, over 300 EUR rate? – No, thanks.
From when is a car actually considered an SUV and what specifically would bother you about taking such a car with a higher entry if the price fits, if I may ask?
I don’t think there’s a fixed standard, at the latest when the manufacturer advertises it as such, it probably is one / is meant to be one. For me it’s more a question of personal taste or, to put it grandly, conviction. For me it is an unbearable fad, symbolizing the turn to individualism over social compatibility. On average, SUVs have worse efficiency due to increased air resistance and higher weight, as well as worse accident results for pedestrians. They are mostly not even really off-road capable, on average not necessarily safer for occupants than well-designed sedans and station wagons, and the space offered including higher entry has always been served by family vans. SUVs are associated with big fat rides driven by big fat older gentlemen without consideration for other road users who think they have built-in right of way and don’t need to signal. Yes, I am admitting to prejudice here, but in fact my experience has very often confirmed this. For me they are unnecessary and a clear case of successful manipulative marketing. I am a child of the 80s and was therefore very interested in cars around the late 80s and through the 90s. About 10 different car quartets in my collection still testify to this passion (which has rather declined with age but can still be called an area of interest). At that time car designers basically tried to build ever more streamlined cars. In car magazines, the c_w value (drag coefficient) was almost quoted before horsepower and trunk volume. When Opel came out with the Calibra, which for the time set a record with a c_w value of 0.26 for production cars ("aerodynamics world champion") and my English and Latin teacher drove it to school every day in bright red, he was my silent hero (the Calibra and my teacher). SUVs are virtually the antithesis of this childish and youthful (self-)imprinting, which may already be somewhat irrational with me. A very small SUV like the R4 or the Inster doesn't fall so much into the above-mentioned technical cons, but the silhouette unfortunately evokes similar associations. But yes, in the end I would also drive such a devilish thing from hell if it were overall an unbeatable offer.