yes Sir - getting into standard lease would be financial suicide with the miles she puts in to her cars... like 2000 miles a month...
buying an old clunker - did not want to deal with the repair bills and possible headaches...
buying a new car - too much money and the new warranty will run out too fast anyways...

so, we assumed somebody's lease with a lot of miles left:

the 335 was on a 27 month lease with 22K miles, the guy had the car for 20 months and drove 4600 miles total, so my wife put about 15 K miles in the last 7 months and we turned the car in with 19K miles on the clock...

the C300 is on a 36 months lease with 45K miles allowance, there were 10 months left and the car had 22K miles on the clock when we took it over...

this way we are utilizing somebody's loss as our gain... I find it to be rather nice... of course, if it were not the MB or the bimmers, the whole thing would have been much much cheaper, but my girl is spoiled... lol...