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Must be nice. But to me $20k is prohibitively expensive as price of entry. My last 4 cars combined didn't cost that much. $5500 for a commuter vehicle these days is pretty good in itself but no other vehicle will offset the purchase price like this one. It's a bit of a gamble with the battery but really at that low of a price even if it dies in one year i will have recouped already 1/3 of the purchase price in gas savings alone. With a $20k Bolt, i would need 10 years or 185k driven miles before i can make the same claim. So the risk/reward ratio here is extremely favorable for the spark. Based on that, the OP statement about this vehicle is pretty spot on. Is it perfect, NO of course not, nothing is. But it's damn efficient (not just for the price) and damn fun to drive. Extra bonus to keep my mind occupied trying to figure out how to push it to the limits. (I have a 40 mile one way trip to the airport coming up in early November in Minnesota, so the cold will probably drop my range close to that, but fast charging this car takes 10 minutes, so it should be pretty doable).
Must be nice. But to me $20k is prohibitively expensive as price of entry. My last 4 cars combined didn't cost that much. $5500 for a commuter vehicle these days is pretty good in itself but no other vehicle will offset the purchase price like this one. It's a bit of a gamble with the battery but really at that low of a price even if it dies in one year i will have recouped already 1/3 of the purchase price in gas savings alone. With a $20k Bolt, i would need 10 years or 185k driven miles before i can make the same claim. So the risk/reward ratio here is extremely favorable for the spark.
Based on that, the OP statement about this vehicle is pretty spot on. Is it perfect, NO of course not, nothing is. But it's damn efficient (not just for the price) and damn fun to drive.
Extra bonus to keep my mind occupied trying to figure out how to push it to the limits. (I have a 40 mile one way trip to the airport coming up in early November in Minnesota, so the cold will probably drop my range close to that, but fast charging this car takes 10 minutes, so it should be pretty doable).
