Springtime for T110 and the Americas

The_Chieftain:   I swung by the Tesla factory yesterday actually to check one out... Oh, wait... wrong Tesla.   Oh well. The issue with it is that it needs a stupidly high initial outlay. Don't get me wrong, it's a very nice car (actually, I lust over it even more now), but all those things which make the car more reasonable in the long run (cheap fuel, tax rebates, low maintenance) don't help when you have to have sufficient money to pay the price tag up front. If, for example, I take delivery in March, the  8% tax rebate doesn't hit until April of the following year, after the tax for returns for 2015 get processed. And, frankly, I can't say I particually can afford a $100k initial price tag regardless of how much I save over ten years (I don't replace cars often). I can almost certainly squeeze it if I sell my current 9-year-old S4 (Cabrio, V8 engine), but I've become quite attached to that one, would rather sell the even older wagon. But then, the cargo capacity on that is nice when going to Ikea...hmm....