There are rules governing the boarding process, but there is always passengers who try and skip the line.

Do they look like Rivian? Or just me?

Have to admit... that original conversation was way more reasoned that I expected it to be.

I guess you’ll never buy an EV then.  That’s ok.

Kyle’s price of a buck sounds about right. For 99.999% of people, this has absolutely no value and should not be purchased. For that 0.001%? It’s a curiosity that should probably land in an EV museum or similar. It should not be $4k. A price with three digits makes more sense (I’ll leave that to the universe to decide…

Wow. I had pretty much this exact car as a rental upgrade WAY back in the day. It was easily one of the best rental cars I’ve ever had...and was perfect for a Nova Scotia snow storm. Way better than the Cavalier they wanted to give me originally. Since then, I’ve thought of buying a Volvo wagon a lot, and here’s the…

Nah... it’s right on time.  From VW’s perspective, they actually have a car with some emotion behind it again, and the buyers will be the ones that had family members with New Beetles or Eurovans 20 years ago.  They might not have been able to afford a Beetle when it came out, but they can afford the bus now.

I really like the 1-Series. These are roomy too… so for folks who think they’re too tall for a Miata, this is a legit option. It’s just…an old BMW with 140k miles.  That’s pretty near the top of my “do not buy under any circumstances” list. ND.

This is how the price of cars stays high.

AKA “crap that people don’t want to buy” now has money on the hood to move inventory.

That’s stupid.

I really want to move to a Rivian.  I think I’m waiting on the R3, but I just love the R1T. It’s just soooo expensive.  Every once in a while I think “wouldn’t a car that can do anything I’d ever ask of it be worth the money?”  Then my wallet calls me a dumbass.

The other way to think about it… an EV is at its most efficient in traffic. ICE is not. Lines at gas stations will suck, and traffic leaving the path of a storm can be bad enough to consider refueling.

It’s a NP. It’s a little high as a starting point for a restoration project, but there’s a clear line between it’s current cost, the restoration cost, and making money off the car if it’s to be flipped. I’d keep it…and given the price of other “already restored” classics I’ve seen recently, there’s room to spend…

1982 Chrysler New Yorker. It was a car I had access to in Highschool, and loved it. It was super plush throughout the interior, but more importantly was a RWD V8! There weren’t too many other kids that had access to a V8 in my school. It didn’t matter that it felt like it was going to fall over in corners, got single…

Easy NP. Those customizations can be removed. Getting a Z in reasonable shape for less than $10k is pretty good at this point. There are many that are cheaper, but will have miles, or paint issues, or will generally just cost a lot to make nice.

Yes.  And that show is for investors.  All of which want to know how their money will grow.  Tesla needs buyers.

Yep… pretty sure I’d target one without turbos just to keep future complexity down.  That V8 is pretty solid on its own.

Related to a comment from yesterday: anything VW.

I’d probably use many of the same reasons you did…except for the environmental friendliness comment. An EV is so wildly more efficient at converting stored energy to motion that it easily offsets any challenges in production. At this point, you have to be willingly holding onto misinformation to believe otherwise.