Whenever I look at new cars and see the prospect of spending $40k+ to get something remotely desireable, part of me wants to say “eff it” and buy something exactly like this Buick.

Depends on the level of confidence I’d have with the dealer. So many of these places have zero respect for your time and no professionalism. Yeah, they’ll email you saying they’ll sell for $XXk, but then you get there and they do some bullshit and don’t honor the deal they made.

So the EVs I would find most appealing if you told me I had to buy one tomorrow are:

You mean the fast food cashier and Walmart greeter couple might not really have a $800k budget?

Same. Most driving is local. When it isn’t, the trip is often out into the sticks, where I don’t expect to find a charger. Something like the Volvo XC90 T8 Extended will allow me to run electric 80% of the time I get in the car, but still refuel when I am in the middle of nowhere. 

So fuel economy was in the high 40's? I don’t know how much gas $70 bought at the time of the test, but figure it is 14-15 gallons.

If I had $100k laying around for car, this would be near the top of the list. Nori Green please.  Although that blue looks sharp too.  Or maybe an orange convertible. 

Yeah I don’t know when $70k because a somewhat normal price for a car. But I see a bunch of Tahoe/Yukons, Expeditions, and am sure I will see a bunch of these once they hit the streets. Never mind the mind boggling number of people buying King Ranch/Limited package F-150s and their competition.

If they want to spend $70k and get <20 mpg to have a vehicle that does most things worse than a $40k, 36 mpg Toyota Sienna, good for them I guess.

But it is a TRD Pro! /s

Ad doesn’t say which owner this car is on, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the current owner bought it with 170k miles on it, put this boy racer crap on it, beat the hell out of it, and is now tapping out.

My thought too. Was thinking this looked nice on the initial pics. Then I see the a-pillar gauges. Damn it, this was owned by someone with an unhealthy Paul Walker obsession wasn’t it?  Have to walk away now. 

I can’t imagine spending $130k on a vehicle and not custom ordering it.

Impulse purchasing isn’t necessarily “swindling”. The dealer could be the most honest, straight forward, competitive priced place on the planet.

I’d rather it go to the manufacturer who designed and built a desirable vehicle, than to a middle man who brings no value to the table.

You’ve probably found a senior sales person, who works at a dealer where they can basically write their own deals, and has sway with the manager to just get shit done. You are a customer who is a qualified, actual buyer instead of a tire kicker, so they intelligently get the deal done.

If your interest is sales, I wonder how they account for losing that “sales opportunity”.

While I don’t want to discourage this approach, from a sales perspective, I wonder how many of the “emotional purchases” they’ll lose without inventory.

My family never had AWD/4WD in Upstate NY. My Dad’s daily commute took him into a lake effect snow hot spot and he always made it home with FWD over 30 years.

It was more appealing when discounts could get the price down closer to $40k than $50k. Not sure what you could do these days. Not a huge fan of “pitch black” interiors either.