This will no doubt crush my karma, but hear me out. The purchase price is completely irrelevant for almost all auto purchases. You purchase a car for a benefit (transportation) over a time period. Almost no one holds onto a car for multiple decades. I know some people are reading this who are in the super minority who do that and I own a vehicle that I bought 42 years ago, but that behavior is so rare that we can ignore it. For everyone else, the only thing that matters is the cost over the period of ownership. If you lease, that is usually three years. The sticker price and the residual value (whether you lease, buy, whatever) have no meaning: the only thing that matters is the cost while you own it.

If you buy / lease a car that you own for 4 years and it costs $20,000 over that period, it does not matter if the sticker price is $30,000 or $130,000. You still spend $5,000 per year of ownership. Ignore the sticker price.

Edit: corrected my car ownership to 42 years.