Among the many reasons I utterly despise every sickening minute of car shopping in the US, foremost are the inexplicable nonexistence of the standard 3/5-door hatchback that is found in every other parking space in Europe and the fact that you can only buy cars here in the color palette of mens' funeral suits.

#carshopping #carshoppingsucks #carcolors #carssuckintheUS #cars #Ideclarewaroncars

Car shopping after trauma isn’t about cars. It’s about autonomy, grief, & choosing to drive forward anyway. 🚗💜
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#Disability #ChronicIllness #TraumaRecovery #Jeep #CarShopping

https://dreamingofdragonscom.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/four-wheels-and-a-pulse-car-shopping-after-trauma/

🚗💰 Gần 300 triệu mua xe 15 năm tuổi - Có nên không?

Một cặp vợ chồng tiết kiệm được ~300 triệu, muốn mua xe cho gia đình 5 người và việc làm thỉnh thoảng. Với ngân sách hạn hẹp, họ chỉ có thể nghĩ đến xe cũ.

Bạn nghĩ sao về việc mua xe đã 15 năm tuổi với số tiền này? 🤔

#ôto #xecũ #tiềntiếtkiệm #giaphươngtiện #xeđãcũ #giađình #VietnamAuto #usedcars #budgetcar #familycar #carshopping #Vietnamese #Vietnam #cộngđồngxemáy #ôtôcũ #đầutư #tiềnngânsách #chọnmuaôto #kinhnghiệmmuaôto

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Considering that the US electric vehicle incentives disappear at the end of the month, we've been looking into the economics of trading in our current gas-powered car for an EV. Unfortunately, even if we make some generous-but plausible assumptions about maintenance and energy costs, it's still basically impossible to justify.

While we are looking at a higher-end EV (a Hyundai Ioniq 5 Limited with all-wheel drive), we'd also be trading in a very sporty car (a Hyundai Veloster N with under 20k miles). So this is a reach, perhaps, but it's not entirely an unjustifiable comparison.

Even if we assume all of the following...

• Exceptional energy efficiency out of the EV (5 miles per kWh)
• Our trade in will get valued at the high end of its expected range
• Fuel prices will go up at 6% per year and electricity prices will go up 3% per year
• We do 90% of our charging at home, despite not having access to fast-charging hardware.
• Auto insurance will cost 20% less. This is actually what Progressive quoted us; even a hot hatch gets heavily penalized with insurance premiums.
• Maintenance costs are $0 for the first three years due to Hyundai's complimentary maintenance
• Vehicle registration fees will not change. Note Colorado already imposes surcharges on EVs to offset the loss of fuel tax revenue
• We'll drive 8,000 miles per year, which is up from the roughly 6,000 we currently drive, just to make any per-mile savings more significant.

... we're still looking at it being $10K more expensive over the next decade to trade in our current, nearly-paid-off car for a shiny new EV. With some more realistic assumptions (such as we keep driving only 6K miles per year), the difference quickly soars past $15K. This is also completely ignoring the effects of deprecation.

This kinda sucks! We're not sure if we'd be willing to trade down to the entry-level model of the Ioniq 5 (which might eliminate that cost difference) but we sure wouldn't be happy about it. We know, though, that there are $11,350 in federal and state tax incentives that won't exist if we go car shopping at a later date.

Are there any other considerations we've overlooking here? Is there anything that'd allow us to better justify this kind of purchase? Or is it really just a case of it being unjustifiable spending to trade up to such a nice EV no matter how we try to assess the math?

#EV #EVs #CarShopping #cars

Sadly, my parents have to replace their #car

What are the least bad options on the market for aging drivers? Are there any vehicles available in the US that...

1. Have knobs and buttons instead of #touchscreen-only controls?

2. Do not pretend to be "self-driving"?

3. Are not SUVs?

4. Cost less than $40k? (preferably far less)

Thanks in advance!

#CarShopping #Cars

all caveats understood. all cars are bad. older adults should not drive. Yes, noted, regretted, and accepted.