We already have a strong lease market in many places and that works great for many people. The issue for me is not the availability of leasing, but the asssumption that my purchase of a vehicle nonetheless entitles the manufacturer to collect massive amounts of data on my in-car habits without my knowledge, which they can then provide to anyone they damn well please.

Even leasing, I doubt anyone expects to have thier call logs and texts stored for law enforcement's later use, bug there was a story recently suggesting that some of them are actually doing that.