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Finance & InsuranceLeasing: too hot not to cool down? Embryonic signs indicate a bust may be looming.Leasing: too hot not to cool down? Embryonic signs indicate a bust may be looming.
Leasing seems too good to be true: Automakers keep new vehicles moving out the door, customers return to dealerships, and motorists can rent cars they can't afford to buy. Everybody wins. That's the theory, and at the moment it seems to be working.But effects of the back-end of leasing -- when the leases expire -- promise to reverberate through the automotive market. Literally millions of leased cars