T110's Northern Migration
Дата: 20.03.2017 18:53:14
RitaGamer, on Mar 20 2017 - 09:19, said: . Also Passat, good car choice is that is your dad's car.
The_Chieftain: Random car talk. I have one as a daily driver.
https://youtu.be/--weWY58mR8?t=571 It's... OK. Not
exciting at all, but big, and being a diesel, gets good mileage for
my 30-mile-each-way commute. Very practical. Very
boring. However, being a diesel, I'll be stupid if I don't
hand it back next year for the refund, so I'm currently daydreaming
on how to replace it. The problem is I like big V8s. I've an S4 in
the garage (Well, what's left of one after 11 years of use)
https://youtu.be/2QLgbTcMV1k?t=23, and the fiancee has an
SL, both are weekend cars. I want to keep this trend going.
The catch is that big (I've a family, and cargo to haul) V8 cars
these days (Think S6 or CTS-V) tend not to be the cheapest to buy
new, and not the most economical to commute in. Getting a used one
a year or two old would be far more affordable, but given I've put
nearly 40k miles on the Passat over the two years I've had it, I
would blow through whatever was left on the warranty in no time at
all, making things more expensive again. I'm giving serious
consideration to replacing it with two cars, one of which would be
electric. The two lead contenders right now are the e-Golf and
Focus Electric. Both are pretty normal cars (unlike, say, leaf or
i3), which are cheap to start with, cheap to run, and given the
serious advantage that the Bolt has over them (with the Tesla 3
presumably on the road by next year), they'll probably get even
cheaper in order to make sales: Face it, Bolt is a far better
car than either of those two, and less than $10,000 more. However,
for pure commuting, I don't need the extra 100 miles of range,
cargo capacity (which sucks in the Ford) can be dealt with by
another vehicle. I'll 'net' about $20k in my pocket on the
VW when I turn it in next year. The Ford is about $31k new on
the road. The tax rebate will be some $10k between the State and
Federal electric bonuses. So for the following few years, commuting
will be basically free, especially if I do my charging at work.
With that, I can then get a large V8 sedan, maybe with no more than
two years left on the warranty, and keep that for the family
excursions, long-haul cruises, fun drives and the like with far
less wear and tear, less frequent visits for servicing, and so on.
At least, that's the current plan. It has changed several
times over the last year.
T110's Northern Migration