Looking for Possible Lease. What is a good deal?

Ok, my Prius is hurting. SO rear ended car. both driver and knee air bags deployed so thinking Prius might be totaled. Hard to say since its still relatively high value car but in case they do probably looking to lease something for a few years. What kind of prices are people getting? would like something around $200 a month

 

Dk. SO will be primary buyer and she says that is what she wants to pay. "C" she would do or maybe a corolla. What is lease on Prius starting at with say $2500 abouts down?

 

Got voice mail from collision shop yesterday. they are sending recommendation to insurance for total loss. they are $200 away from that and strongly suspect engine damage but cannot verify unless they pull the engine which will just run up the cost anyway. so should not be too much longer.

As far as what option to get? SO is one who will be primary on this (first car since we have been together) since had been the plan before. my plans were to lease/purchase an EV when current LEAF lease runs out in jan 2014 possibly using Prius for equity. now that that is off the table, I need the cash to follow thru on future EV plans. Now SO is in much better paying job than she had before so its time for her to take on the debt.

but getting her off the "buy only" mode is not easy since she is very math challenged. What she wants, she cannot afford to purchase but is within reach on leases. so we still very much up in the air here.

 

wow! that is cheap. I could do that.what kind of Prius? C i am guessing?

 

not interested in residual. purchase wont be an option. just looking for something to drive for a few years until the plug in market matures a bit more. Corolla sounds very doable.