It looks like Ram is coming out with a PHEV truck, so exactly what I want, but with an estimated starting price of 60k, I definitely won't buy one new. Maybe if i can make my current truck last until 2027 or something I can pick up a used one, but it would be nearing 300k miles at that point, so its questionable
gixxeropa said:I'm kind of working backwards to justify getting something like a Lotus Elan M100 with the Isuzu engine. I've seen that mid 30s mpg is possible with conscientious driving,
Bro, real talk. You're not really trying to save money here, you're trying to reverse engineer some thin veneer of sensibility onto the purchase of a weird, yet compelling orphan. In other words, that thing you think you might be doing, yeah, you're totally doing it.
If you want the Lotus and can afford the Lotus go buy the Lotus, but if you're trying to force it into the 'responsible" category you're just going to end up disappointed.
If you want to save money, go buy a really nice Gen2 Prius for $5-6k and save tons of money on gas, tires, brake pad and other maintenance on a daily basis, but realize by the time you factor in cost of the car and insurance/tags, the payback period will still be a few years.
In reply to JG Pasterjak :
I've pretty much decided to just drive my E36 M3box truck for the next while. with current gas prices even a cheap prius is not a financially viable proposition. maybe if it jumps back up to >$4 a gallon it would make sense, but then I imagine used prius prices would go up too. But also I had abandoned the elan idea a while ago and was looking at prius and matrixes etc.
gixxeropa said:In reply to JG Pasterjak :
I've pretty much decided to just drive my E36 M3box truck for the next while. with current gas prices even a cheap prius is not a financially viable proposition. maybe if it jumps back up to >$4 a gallon it would make sense, but then I imagine used prius prices would go up too. But also I had abandoned the elan idea a while ago and was looking at prius and matrixes etc.
Not sure if I'm proud of you or disappointed
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