[naz]

you gotta find a while to hold off buying a car until the lease is up in my opinion.. if thye are going to let you out of the lease by rolling the remaining payments into the principal of the new loan.. that's crazy.. so instead of just lease payments, you have to pay interest on it too.. and since you have to use the stealership's finance department.. they could really hose you and play with #s to make it look like they arent.. like having a balloon payment at the end so they can sell you on the monthly payment you want...

its like being upside down on your existing car loan and trying to trade up.. the dealer knows they have you by the balls and they are going to go to work on you..

some options....

get a motorcycle and use that to commute to work, save the miles on your lease for weekends so you don't go over. this is what i do to keep miles off my wrx (not to mention get 50mpg instead of 21mpg)

or you could try leasetrader (get someone to sublease)

or you could purchase a beater than you can use for the year (something like the $1200 integra i used for over 1yr/20,000 miles comes to mind) if you can score a reliable old car you are set

or take public trans a couple of days a week..

i dunno.. you gotta do something man.. you will be handing over a couple of thousand in free money to the dealer.. not good