If enough major markets ban gasoline powered new vehicle sales, manufacturers will stop producing them.

Fully agree. All of my points are based purely on financial logic, not fallible human behavior with regard to money. Which, as an F&I guy, you certainly have seen a lot of.

I don’t think there are a lot of people here in the top tax bracket. But if that is the case, then yes, you are taxed at 37% on any gains held <1 year.

To answer your question with a totally different industry: Dealer F&I offices.

What? You do understand that you can sell investments, right? You aren’t forced to hold forever.

Yep, I’m referring purely to financial logic here, not personal preference/human behavior.

Suppose it depends on your risk tolerance. I don’t think putting money in SPY is crazy as a benchmark. Yes, it does have some downside risk, but we are talking about a 5 year hold here.

Huh?

Your example is actually a great (maybe even perfect) illustration of exactly why it doesn’t make sense to make that downpayment.

I get the 2 extremes ($0 down, all cash). Not that they both make sense to me, but I get it from a human behavior point of view. 

Why make a $10k downpayment when you can borrow money at <2%?

As a non-owner interested in buying in the next couple of years, trotting out warmed over versions of the same formula (and continuing to keep them difficult to service) is great news for me.

Pedestrian safety regs.

It was designed for flights to remote parts of the former USSR that had gravel runways. The high engines permit gravel operation since you won’t suck in bits of gravel. The Soviets also lacked resources to do advanced aerodynamic testing, so the 4 tail engines allowed a clean wing, which is easier to test.

V1 doesn’t change based on runway length, but before you depart, you are supposed to do a runway analysis. Based on thrust settings, runway length, altitudes, temp, humidity, etc., this analysis will provide safe/correct V1/Vr/V2 speeds at a variety of takeoff weights, and will also provide a MTOW (as well as…

The bus lines will also use the tunnel, so you wouldn’t necessarily have to pay the toll. But yes, it is not cheap.

I’m also in a smaller home in the city (ATL too). Nashville is cheaper than here and significantly cheaper than large cities like LA, SF, NYC, etc, so I would call it “cheap”. It’s all relative though.

Gasoline would be about $3k extra a year, or $250/mo. Maintaining and insuring 2 cars also has to cost a bit more too.

2001 BMW M3 Coupe Base MSRP: $46,045, as-tested by Car and Driver: $53,309

Yes, Porsche is the most profitable automaker, so others copying them on performance oriented cars is not surprising. Basically, take the MSRP and multiply by 1.25x to get the actual price of the car.