I like it... but ... more range plz? 350 miles - if I go to my normal mountain haunt, I’m having to make sure I’ve got at least 100 miles left, because the CLOSEST charging station to town is... well, 30 miles of mountain away, and I’m 20 miles outside of town. So in other words, I’m limited to running the trails…

Except I want all those things, because I’m neither poor nor a cheap bastard, and I spend a lot of time in my car.  You couldn’t get decent headlights on the Mazda6 with the manual - because they didn’t let you.  Or nav.  Or any number of things.  We’re splitting the limited market - I don’t buy cars on the bottom of…

Mazda 6 penalty box trim with the manual.  Accord was the same way.  

You’d be surprised, since that part isn’t tracked (which made it effectively impossible to research; we had to use field personnel and some statistics to guess - it looks like a personal lease or purchase). I do agree with the latter, but those days of my life are gone - no time, no energy to keep maintaining all of…

Again, I literally spent months researching this - it’s incredibly common. 165K employee company, with over 40K in the field all submitting miles, not including execs. Case studies for delivery drivers for Walgreens and other places - all submitting miles. Legal decisions on the same, hence why everyone switched to…

I’m not saying ANYTHING about writing it off. I’m saying submitting it as an expense to the corporation you work for, and there are millions of people that do that - anyone in IT, sales, consulting, etc does. That is all reimbursed at the IRS rate as it is the safest way for the corporation to do so - I literally…

Several legal cases - if you don’t use the IRS rate, there are significant legal liabilities wrt usage / insurance / miles booked that shifts the liability on to the corporation, so it’s easier and safer to count this as an operational expense and just pay the miles. I’ve actually had to do a ton of research on it for…

Mileage expense - you can’t write off the car, but they still price it that way (based on the max allowed).  It’s the safest way to manage the expense.  

The point I make a lot on this is - many leases of BMW/Audi/Benz aren’t paid for by the individual driving them, when you consider the finances. Many of them are paid by mileage expenses and the like from the company that the individual works for - and in that case, the lease (it’s one of the reasons so many come in…

20k of wear on the tires too, and other consumables - So add in ...  $500 in consumable parts life used, maybe?  Ballparking there, never tried to do that before...  but I could see it being close enough to get the options you want too.  

All about the incentives that may not be available to folks right now - or they don’t qualify for htem if they are available.  So, used is the only option - and demand > supply.  

I did it on a Wrangler @ 500/mo at one point, but that was based on deals/residuals/etc that would make it VERY sane if I decided to buy it out (or roll equity into a JL, if I liked it better) - but I also didn’t have a 500/mo loan on a 5 year old Mazda (200/mo on a 5 year old BMW with extended warranty instead, and I…

The problem with that is a slowly dying N/A aftermarket (smog rules in a lot of places don’t help with this), the ease of tuning modern turbo motors for cheap HP boosts (vs adding FI to an N/A engine), and the lack of torque - plus a general uninterest in revving. I drive an NB Miata, have driven NC/ND and the S2000 a…

I dragged them along one day before getting to the “sweet, so free rebuilds you said?  Because we only get two runs down the track before it needs to be torn down.”  They hung up - stopped for about 6 months.  

Oh yes.  A LOT.  

They’re far more unforgiving.  

Steam gauges (as they’re colloquially known) are reliable, simple, affordable, and can be serviced ~anywhere~ (and duplicates, since you always need two, are even more affordable).  Glass cockpits are stupid expensive, and you still need two.  Many pilots like glass, many like steam, many like both.  Personally, I…

Yes, and possibly airframe modification.  

Oof.  Price isn’t wrong, but not a plane I’d touch.  Going to need to swap that motor to a continental or lycoming rated for the airframe before too long, since there’s no way in hell you keep that engine running through more than one more overhaul in my experience - and that’s gonna be a LOT of cash to get certified…

I average 80 a day normally; downtown Denver is an 80 mile loop.  Fridays are normally 120 or 165, depending on the route I take.  2-3 times a month is a 380 mile loop to Wyoming.  1-2 a month is a drive somewhere else, 150 or so.