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I don't believe the tax benefit is with the dealer...as long as you buy anything in the same state, you get the tax benefit...just like FL.
Well youare answering my new thread question about truck resale prices leveling off, maybe they are not.
I am into it for about $62K and can get $65K. The only option I would have liked to have, but really didn't need, was the 33 gal tank. I have everything else. Touch decision, but I get new vehicles every 1.5-2 years anyway. If I drove an SUV for a year or so, and then got back into a TRX or something else I may want in 2023, it's not the end of the world. I don't tow or haul anything anyway.
Is that an offer from vroom or carvana? Or from a dealer
Both and my local dealers are offering to match these two. I want to trade to get the full tax benefit, but use Carvana and Vroom as local leverage.
Hummer Edition One? Lightning? Cybertruck? Such choices...
I'd go for it then. For your cheaper new ride may I suggest the Lada Niva:
www.thedrive.com
Now there's a real truck. I'm sure SG will appreciate that advice almost as much as mine.Hmm maybe the Ridgeline??
I love LadaI'd go for it then. For your cheaper new ride may I suggest the Lada Niva:
Begin article quote:The 2021 Lada Niva Is Really a 20-Year-Old SUV With the Face of a New RAV4
At least it's got a real low range transfer case.
"The Niva II receives an 80-horsepower 1.7-liter engine, which is the same basic unit that's been in the car since the 1990s. In fact, it's nearly the same engine available in the regular Niva. It does, however, get a full-time four-wheel-drive system with locking differentials and a low-range gearbox, which ensures it can at least match the original Niva when the going gets tough."
And a UK review says: (https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/lada/niva)
"The 1.7-litre, four-cylinder petrol engine is now fitted with Bosch fuel injection and complies with Euro 5 emissions standards, the dashboard has been replaced with a new VDO instrument pack that looks only 15 years behind in design and the door mirrors are a bit bigger than they used to be. The Niva is now available in three- and five-door form, and in rugged and 'stylish' Urban models.
The Niva was never the best of road cars, but off road, with its minimal 1210kg weight, narrow tyres, low-ratio transfer gearbox and diff lock, it was formidable across the mucky stuff. And when you had got both it and yourself covered in mud and goo, you could fling open the doors and hose out the interior.
You can do the same today because the same plastic and rubber mats are used in the Niva. The trim plastics are ghastly, but the piglets or lambs in the back won’t mind and neither should you. Besides, the Niva is a cool-looking vehicle in a sort of Smeg fridge way. In 2016, Lada introduced the Niva Urban which equips the 4x4 with air conditioning, electric windows, heated and electrically folding wing mirrors, 16in alloy wheels and body coloured bumpers. Luxury personified clearly. The Russian manufacturer later in the year also modernised the suspension with improved bearings and gas shock absorbers. The rest of the Niva is reassuringly as it was several decades ago. It even smells the same.
Most modern cars are so quiet that all you can hear at speed is tyre noise. The Niva may also have noisy tyres, but you can’t tell because any road noise is drowned out by gearbox whine.
The engine itself is remarkably quiet. There’s sound insulation under the bonnet that looks like an add-on but cuts out a lot of noise. There’s plenty of squeaking and rattling from around the back that could be the retrofitted LPG tank moving on its mounting bracket."
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Now I have tried to furnish you with up-to-date information for your dream ride. It is not affected by the chip shortage due to superior Russian design which negates the need for any consumer electronics.
Yea, definately more his style...
