Auto industry bailouts have been the tax credit on a lot of cars. Continual tax breaks for manufacturers are the tax credit on all cars.

Here in Idaho, you are supposed to keep your plates. If similar in Colorado, she probably sold to someone who said they would get the plates transferred or remove them and did neither (or removed them and they ended up out in the wild).

Things always looked bad for the Apple Car. Nothing about that project should have given anyone reason for optimism.

Yep. This is “just one” bad president of the fraternal order. If it’s not “just one” bad cop, it is “just one” bad department. “Just one” bad union. No matter how much of a pattern each of those “ones” makes.

Of course he does. They love cops who consider themselves above the law. Means they have the backing to do whatever they want, too.

People have plenty of trouble parking regular-width pickups. I hope the buyer never goes to any urban or suburban areas. 

I love boring hybrids and electrics. I have a Niro PHEV and it looks at home among the many little crossovers roaming the streets. Not every hybrid or electric needs to LOOK like one.

Nice price for sure. 8 cylinders, great shape.

Maybe worth $15k. Even then, not worth it to me.

They’ll almost certainly just keep rolling that negative equity into the next loan. It was happening a lot before the chip shortage, so I expect it will happen even more.

I think it is a valuable question. I got a good deal on my Niro a couple years back. If others were looking at a Niro around the same time, it would be helpful to know the price was about $31k for an EX Premium so they could go from there.

I drive a PHEV and the number of times people ask dumb questions like:

Other than the obvious answers of whichever one you have or your dad’s pickup, I think the 1960s Chevy K10/C10 pickups deserve a spot. Reliable, comfortable, and common. They were great everyday pickups. The suspension and the drop ladder frame were marked improvements over previous pickups.

If you will take $7500 and hand it to any EV buyer, they’ll still spend it on the EVs that provide the best value. The current model of offering it only for the first X vehicles incentivizes higher price until the threshold.

The one minor benefit (often overlooked) of the tax incentive is that it makes leasing attractive, which puts used EVs out there for the people who wouldn’t buy new.

I want it. Not for that price, but I would love to have it. Probably a decent price, though.

I struggle with the utility trailer vs pickup consideration. I don’t really have the space to store a trailer. But I don’t actually need a pickup that much.

No dice, and not just because I cannot get behind a 4 door “coupe.” Don’t like the engine, don’t trust the listing, and just cannot see this going well for a buyer. 

This looks like it is going to work out well for me, as I have some equity in my Kia Niro PHEV lease to put toward a Maverick. still feel weird about trading a plug-in for a regular hybrid, though.

The problem is that we have people treating Level 2 systems as Level 3. There is no system on the market that is currently operating such that the driver can stop paying attention.