how many monies will it take for me to drive home with this car?

Starred for MINI ‘vert. My wife has a ‘19 Cooper S 6MT. It’s really fun to zip around in and plenty of room in back for our 10yo daughter.

IMHO, this is too pessimistic. I come up with 110 miles using your formula. I had an e-golf with a rated range of 83 for 3 years and can only remember two times when I wished I had more range (unusual combinations of partial charge, very cold weather, and much more driving than normal).  I always charged it to 90% on…

My neighbor’s Audi A8 was stolen out of her driveway. ALL her stuff in it. Big key fob with house key, Range Rover key, cash, CC, etc. Blew my mind when I heard.  

Hah.  I almost typed that I expect a lot of people will end up with long range and short range EVs in their households.  :)

When I used to read the forums, there were a few people who would go to absolutely crazy lengths to not burn gas.  They would have been happier with an actual EV.

You make an excellent point that I didn’t ‘get’ until I had an EV. I’ve had a Volt and an e-golf. For me, any range over 100 miles really didn’t add any value. I have a 300 mile RT I drive a couple times per month so the next stop would realistically need to be 300+ if I wanted to be fully electric. For every other…

Volts track the approximate age of the fuel. If you go long enough, it will run the engine to burn through it even if you’re always charged.  It also runs the engine for a few minutes if it hasn’t been run for 6 weeks or so.

It’s not as simple as ‘constant debt for a score’. The only long term debt my wife has ever had is our mortgage and her score is 800+. When we bought our house, she had 10 years of CC history, never paid any interest, but used it regularly. I don’t think her score was quite that high at the time but it was close.

I find Kosilla’s (and others) YouTube videos to be oddly satisfying. I like how he veers from junk-heap-in-the-woods to pulled-from-shed-after-20-years to $3MM Koenigsegg.

Hahah. To Kyree’s point, salesdude at a Kia dealer may never have seen a cash deal, nevermind “I only care what the OTD price is, however you structure it.” 

Hahahah.   Car needs a 2.0 anyway!

That would be tempting except for the ding on my hood mentioned above (during a tire rotation) AND I just remembered they installed the wheels with the gun set to KILL. Except for the locking lugs, which were not much more than hand tight.

Unitronic 1+.  The verdict is still out - there’s a slight stumble if I tip into the throttle Just So.  I caught it in an OBDeleven log and am working with them.

I just paid $55 for an oil change kit for my VW. 6qts of the correct Castrol synthetic + a VW oil filter + new drain plug. $75 is a bargain IF you trust your local VW dealer. The ONE time I let them touch my old e-golf, it came back with a ding on the hood that looked exactly like the female side of an air coupler…

Alternate take: those cars are on the list because their builders did not come up with compelling enough follow-ups to get the owners to buy again.

I’ve observed there’s often an inverse relationship between how often someone talks about those things and actually does those things.  

Sympathy star for you.

That tacked on wing.  Ugh.

I’m impressed. I’m not sure there’s anything I would truly enjoy once I *had* to do it every day.