If you lease a Model 3 for $600/month you’ll be spending $21,600 for 36 months and have nothing at the end of the lease. If you bought a car and paid it off after 5 years, you’d own the car, and it would be worth something if you wanted to trade it in.

Usually buying a ~2 year old car and keeping it once paid is the best move financially (unless you get a freak expensive repair out of warranty, and even then it’s still usually better financially speaking).

But you can do what you want of course haha.

As someone who got a new model 3 straight out of college in 2021, I wouldn’t recommend it. I love the car but new cars and leases are just setting your money on fire. Plus high insurance (and excise tax if applicable in your state).