Car prices actually haven’t risen much more than inflation in general.  What HAS caused people to go to long term loans is everybody is trying to buy a damned luxury gunship nowadays.

Or the ability to add the outlet easily (ie, prerun conduit, leave breaker slots open).

It’s the approach I took when I went solar - installer could have safely installed the system on the slot(s) open in my box . It would have required a tandem breaker for existing lighting circuits and left no open slots on my panel.…

No need even for the 240V outlet. Just put in a box and run conduit to the panel and leave 2 breakers open. Then if you want to add a charger, you simply add the double breaker for $10, and run some AWG8 for a level 2 charger for $50-100 (rough guess, depends on distance)... or 6 or even 4 gauge if you end up with a…

N:

YES, emission regulations should get stronger. We’re within reach of the 2025 goals - no reason to let up now.

You could make the regulations smarter, though - but there’s no good reason to gut them.

And as for GM’s proposal?  It’s a little absurd to require electric charging in all new construction.  Maybe you…

You’re thinking the Transit Connect.

The Transit is significantly larger, runs on its own platform, and has the 3.5L Ecoboost as an option. The standard engine is the 3.7L V6.

You also get options of 2,5,8,10,12, or 15 seats.

I do suspect that Bob meant the Transit Connect, though, not the Transit.

This seating arrangement (captains chairs with a passthrough) is standard on the Ford Transit Connect Wagon LWB.... no need to go high priced to get it.

“A half-step above the likes of Honda and Toyota, and a half-step below Audi, BMW, Lexus. I am not sure if there’s a make they are truly directly comparable to.” 

Honestly, I never noticed the rear glass. Kinda like that. I wonder how expensive it would be to replace. I know when the 96 Taurus came out, it had a unique inflection in the rear glass - not only was the whole thing oval, but at the very bottom it went from convex to concave. Very subtle and completely unnecessary,…

Paint shops are the absolute worst part of any auto assembly plant. Not only by far the most expensive single part, but the cleanliness, emissions control, etc, are all difficult to control. CKD kits generally eliminate the need for any of that. In some plants, that can eliminate 1/2 to 2/3 of the cost. Overall, a CKD…

I haven’t tried the current generation - don’t like the exterior looks at all, but previous generations of Prius I found lacking in interior quality. That said the biggest problem I had with them was that Toyota had to make the handling sloppy and numb. That isn’t a problem with hybrids, that’s just Toyota’s poor…

According to Trump officials, freezing the requirements will slow the pace at which new cars are getting more expensive,

The interior is decent - but more of what you expect from a $23,000 car, not a $55,000 car (granted, MSRP is a poor comparison when you don’t give credit for fuel and maintenance costs).  What got me was that they still had poor fit and finish.  It’s a tired meme, but seriously, they could hire a couple people from…

If they’re using CKD kits, they easily could get running in 14 months if they know what they’re doing. Ford built a plant outside St. Petersburg Russia almost 20 years ago that did all that for CKD kits. They put a halt on construction at one point when the russian car market collapsed, but total construction time…

Actually, in some cases, labor is capitalized.  But the other thing here is that they didn’t actually reduce employment significantly (though they did shift it), so the cost is still there, even if expensed.

It would depend on what happens when it leaves your facility, too. For computers, most places I’ve worked would shred hard drives, but would actually donate the remaining bits to a charity. If it cost $100 to put a new hard drive in and the computer was then worth $300 on the used market, you could claim a $200…

I hope. But I think they’ll regret dumping the car market rather than simply scaling back and retrenching. I’m convinced they could kill off the Taurus and Fiesta and have a profitable market. Maybe not F-150 profitable, but at least maintain a presence and keep your loyal customers.

My only hope is that their stated…

Note: CR states Ford’s issues revolve almost entirely around infotainment (a problem that plagues every maker that has gone into that market).  I’d rather have a finicky infotainment system than a bum transmission anyday.

The guidelines are simply guidelines, though - if you can show that it routinely won’t last that long, you can generally claim faster depreciation.  You’ll get in trouble, though, if they find you’re holding onto equipment for 2 years and selling it/disposing of it for more than the depreciated value.

Where have you worked? Because the government restricts the amount you can claim based on what the expected life of the asset is. Some things, like computers, generally get a 3-5 year depreciation.

Office furniture and appliances generally get a 7 year period.

Commercial buildings are 39 years.

That last bit is why many…

Nearly every cent of what you claim was expenses for boosting production would, in fact, be capital expenses.