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Prius Prime = Most Economical New Car to Purchase?
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Date: February 24th, 2018 5:33 PM Author: Mauve pungent cruise ship legal warrant I know if you're in CA you get few thousand in tax credits on top the federal tax credit. And if you're commuting from 10-15 miles out then you basically use no gas. Is this car the CR? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3902978&forum_id=2#35479240) |
Date: February 24th, 2018 5:36 PM Author: Passionate slate step-uncle's house Seems pretty cr though I haven't looked very deeply (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3902978&forum_id=2#35479252) |
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Date: February 24th, 2018 5:37 PM Author: Impressive sooty rehab I like that it has the smallest blind spots of any car made today but it is just sooooo soulless I couldn't do it. But yeah, purely economically it and the Kia Rio make like the most sense. But you have to really hate driving.... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3902978&forum_id=2#35479253) |
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Date: February 24th, 2018 5:46 PM Author: Mauve pungent cruise ship legal warrant I love driving, but honestly if you have to deal with rush hour traffic you're not gonna do any enjoyable driving anyway. Plus in CA you get the HOV placard. I was thinking of getting this in addition to having a weekend car. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3902978&forum_id=2#35479294) |
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Date: February 24th, 2018 8:07 PM Author: Passionate slate step-uncle's house It seems like a credited commuter car and will have high as fuck resale value to boot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3902978&forum_id=2#35480117) |
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Date: February 24th, 2018 8:09 PM Author: fluffy autistic rigor leasing this as a work vehicle seems like the most CR possible car if little to no gas
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Date: February 24th, 2018 8:17 PM Author: Turquoise brunch It doesn't sound like you do enough driving to truly justify a hybrid
Also, you want to know what one of the cheapest vehicles to own that you could have purchased new from 2006-2014 is? The Toyota FJ Cruiser. They might get shit fuel economy, but the resale on them is *insane*. They've barely depreciated at all. |
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Date: February 24th, 2018 8:22 PM Author: Mauve pungent cruise ship legal warrant yeah, but you can't have known that it wasn't going to depreciate the way cars normally do, maybe when it was official they were going to discontinue it, even then it wasn't a given. this feels like hindsight thinking. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3902978&forum_id=2#35480257) |
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Date: February 24th, 2018 8:32 PM Author: Turquoise brunch The point is to pay attention to depreciation. It's basically the biggest cost you usually have as a car owner, but it's super overlooked. People treat it like a constant, and it's not.
Hybrids and EVs tend to have pretty fucking bad depreciation due to the whole 'expensive battery pack being a maintenance item' thing |
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Date: February 24th, 2018 8:54 PM Author: Impressive sooty rehab It only matters if you intend to sell the car at some point. A Prius owner is the exactly the kind of dude who will drive it until its last possible mile. A dude like that does not have to worry about depreciation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3902978&forum_id=2#35480478) |
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Date: February 24th, 2018 9:40 PM Author: Turquoise brunch Resale matters to everybody bro
Repairs are an inevitability on every car. People do a cost-benefit analysis when they get a repair estimate. Once the cost to repair starts approaching or exceeding the estimated FMV of the fixed car, *virtually everybody* says "fuck that" and sells it to a shadetree dude who thinks he can fix it up for less than the shop said.
The longer that the FMV stays above the repair cost is the longer that you get to keep a car that you evidently really like |