No offense intended, but your Hyundai Sante Fe Limited is neither a luxury vehicle nor an EV. My point is that both come with higher (initial) depreciation and combined it can get really high. I personally would not buy a new luxury EV for exactly these depreciation reasons. Let’s go through it.

This is rental car insurance, you cannot have a rental car market if the owner is not insured for whatever the renter might do. However, the insurance will have the right to recover the settlement from the renter, so the driver is (rightfully) going to pay a lot of money here.

Agreed, crushing cars is political despot crap:

I agree, it is both, plus we should also just consider that the Model-S is getting OLD as a body style.

Yes, I understand that, let’s call it a ‘premium’ instead of a markup if that helps. MSRP in 2022 was $140K, for the same car new now it is $108K (or less). We can take one of two views:

While it is fun to blame this all on Elon hate, this is explainable without and EV buyers should beware, resale values are not great:

This is not about ICE vs. EV. This is about building the fastest road racing equivalent vehicle.

Just waiting for the day that Jalop gets a Headline for an article correct...

I think we need to also point out how much production volumes have ramped since the C8 launch and compared to the C7. Old timers can whine about how the C8 isn’t a real corvette, doesn’t have a manual, the looks are polarizing, whatever. But numbers don’t lie, they built 53,785 C8s in 2023 and they are all selling.…

That’s not really a good analogy, more like going after a lighter company that is selling flamethrowers to children.

Seriously, there are die cast model cars that cost more than this thing.  NP as a sculpture, great price if you can get it running again for another $10K.

I”m going to second Boston. My dad grew up there and instantly reverts to a Masshole when he crosses the state line going back home.

Arguably modern safety, fuel efficiency and other design restraints are starting to make these cars look more and more homogeneous relative to the variety of prior generations.

It’s not much of a secret that there are high volume corvette dealers that sell Corvettes at MSRP.

Agreed, I did not think Chevy was going to say “Hold my beer!” to Dodge. (I know the peak torque is lower, but still).

Can we point out the driver knocked off the left-side rearview mirror against the hay bales? You can see it hanging on by the cable in the last few seconds.

Of course you do actually need to pay back the loans though. So Step 3 is more

Yes , I hate this. I’ve got a road with 7 of them in half a mile, a road that didn’t really have that much of a compliance problem.

I’ve been trying to find what the legal design requirements are for speed bumps are in the state of Pennsylvania. My township installed 11 humps on a 1 mile road. I’m not convinced my sports car can get over them without scraping as they are relatively tall with a short length.  

It is common for hybrids. Realistically you need the high voltage electrical system that comes with the hybrid drive to be able to power an electrical AC compressor, it would be very hard to do with a typical 12V electrical system.