Also drove a 6 touring and fell in love with it! You were right Nate, car is very nice and one I could see having for a long time. Of course my budget would have some trouble getting a sport in there so the touring is out of question.

Thinking about a possible lease so I can get the payments down to a more comfortable level. Just not sure if I want to put a couple of thousand down to lower the payment more or not. If I end up buying the car that's one thing but if I trade it in I feel as though I'm just throwing that money away.
I'd not recommend leasing and then buying the car, it's almost like paying TWICE the price for it. They don't consider what you've paid into the lease. They take the value of the car at the time of the end of your lease (and you know how these cars hold their value) and get their car sale price from there and then depending on what you can afford, you're paying another 3-4 years on that. At least that's how I THINK it works, from what I've been told. I could certainly be wrong. : / I've just heard it's not worth buying your leased car because you're paying more for it than you would have if you bought it outright. Leasing is nice if you like to have a new car every 3 years, if you don't put alot of miles on the car and the price is usually pretty decent, but then you sort of dig yourself into a hole in the aspect that you don't have anything to show for it once the lease is over. I leased once because the price was right, but it's not something I'd do again if I didn't have to. just my .02. )
Most cases it doesn't make sense to buy out a lease, but you can have positive equity at the end of a lease. Or you can just want to keep the car. I've had customers buy out there leases because they love the car or they have such low miles on the car at the end that they actually had some money built into the car and didn't want to lose it.