Golly gee-whiz, sir. I imagine you're just chock full of dumb thoughts like this.
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You’ve obviously never been to Toronto.
Gob’s not on board.
Plus they could call up the IRS to discuss a payment plan. It’s not like they absolutely had to cut a $6000 check to Uncle Sam that year.
Just about every car people win on tv shows is a base model. Learned that from price is right trivia
like winning the lottery, winning a car is calculated as part of a person’s gross income, so it’s taxed as income
It just said get a tax bill, nothing about paying versus creative evasion.
‘Free’ was actually FREE. No need for quotes. Yes, these people were on the hook for taxes, but every single person was still better off for it. This article is written in a tone that makes it seem that some people were put in a worse situation due to this promotion. Yeah, some people couldn’t afford the taxes, but…
I was a broke 18 year old when I won my Corvette on $4 in raffle tickets. It sucked having to sell it, but the net was still pretty sweet for a broke 18 year old.
The additional tax burden might have diminished the elation, but not one of the recipients was worse off for having been given a fucking car.
I went on a date with a girl who had one by way of her mother being in the audience. It was exceptionally mediocre, even in 2008. I had assumed they were loaded up to increase the media factor, but not so much.
Oh no! They had to pay taxes on a free car!
I’ll answer this, because it deserves an honest reply.
Battery swapping has the problem of you are trading 30% of the car’s value out at every gas station. Get a bad pack and you’re screwed.
I’m with you. Here in Colorado it’s still under $3. Hit close to 3 last year, but it’s been near $2.50 for a while. I remember it hitting 3 and I was upset with my mostly economical car...
Where are they getting the $4-5 gallon BS? I know California is there but what about the rest of the US? I paid $2.06 a gallon and I’m just 3 hours south of Detroit. And I doubt they that much more.
1st gear: I generally concede that a car company - who pay heaps of people to test and study these sorts of things - probably has far more information about their target demographic than armchair commenters like me. But for the life of me I cannot understand why they’ve decided to slap on the Mustang-inspired…