Always pay cash for a car!!! NEVER trade a car!!! What he gives, he may some day take away. He wants to buy a RX 350 (zzzzzzz) for ya....fine....the 3k won't matter to him...right? Keep the VX in the corner. When he disappears, or whatever, and they come for the leased (or financed) Lex or Merc......you got something to drive away in