Place Your Bets! (actual blank Slate starting price contest)

[Doctors Do Little]

Call Elon, we need robots that can work in the open, no factory needed, assembled for you in a Florida Heatwave, a Texas rainstorm, or even in a facility owned and operated by Beltway-Bandits.

I'm betting on $27K/$31K pricing....go crazy on adds and your budget is up to you alone.

 

[1yeliab_sufur1]

$20k is the killer price
If you dont think so look at China.
Never see it here in my lifetime though.

You mean the cheap Chinese ev cars that have locked people in them and crashes have started several fires unprovoked and are using the ccp system to actual sell them as used with zero miles while they have rotted in fields for more then over a year trust me I’ll still with a higher price if it means better safety and survival

 

[1yeliab_sufur1]

I'm betting on $27K/$31K pricing....go crazy on adds and your budget is up to you alone.

My budget is if I can finance it it will be my first car in my name after all XD

 

[Doctors Do Little]

My budget is if I can finance it it will be my first car in my name after all XD

Love the truth here. Hope you save enough to make it happen!

 

[1yeliab_sufur1]

Love the truth here. Hope you save enough to make it happen!

After December I won’t have any bills so I have a whole year to save actually if I did save everything thing I had minus food expenses I could probably out right by one if it’s below 30k it would be the base but well like they say upgrade later

 

[Doctors Do Little]

After December I won’t have any bills so I have a whole year to save actually if I did save everything thing I had minus food expenses I could probably out right by one if it’s below 30k it would be the base but well like they say upgrade later

You're operating the American dream real time. Make it so.

 

[Paul Rodgers]

this is good comment, its real, not even half-joking.
I often poke fun at folk, including myself. Thats because I was brought up English.
You want add-ons, you got the $$, fork it over and Amazon will deliver tomorrow.

That is REAL America, the flag-waving is well and good, the political !@#$ not so much.
But DO-ING, thats the USA, since its founding, and many of the do-ers were, and are, immigrants

I am, my wife was (lost her few years ago), my daughters are 1st-gen Americans.
Trump is only 2nd-gen, his grandparents would get deported to Mars!

Work, pay taxes, build a family, buy a house, mow the lawn, this is America.
Not tax breaks for the likes of Bezos, or Musk, or any of the family of rich-and-famous who dont know how to load a dishwasher.

Only honest rich gent left in the USA as far as I can see is Warren Buffet.
May he live long, and prosper.

 

[Paul Rodgers]

You're operating the American dream real time. Make it so.

I put $500 into a kitty, every month, from my SS income.
Well, usually Xmas makes me skip a month.
Once in a long while my Tacoma need a bit of TLC, maybe that takes out anther month.

That kitty buys a CD, I roll it over every 4 months.
By the time they ship, I shall be ready.

 

[Doctors Do Little]

I put $500 into a kitty, every month, from my SS income.
Well, usually Xmas makes me skip a month.
Once in a long while my Tacoma need a bit of TLC, maybe that takes out anther month.

That kitty buys a CD, I roll it over every 4 months.
By the time they ship, I shall be ready.

I love the British pragmatism. No muss. No fuss. Just get on with it. You are welcome here!

 

[1yeliab_sufur1]

Ok slate just deleted there newest post interesting very very interesting

 

[Letas]

$20k is the killer price
If you dont think so look at China.
Never see it here in my lifetime though.

Now look at how chinas auto industry is propped up By the govt….

 

[1yeliab_sufur1]

Now look at how chinas auto industry is propped up By the govt….

True the government bleeds on china ev’s to since if the company that makes them doesn’t sell enough the government just give them the money to keep the afloat

 

[Paul Rodgers]

You mean the cheap Chinese ev cars that have locked people in them and crashes have started several fires unprovoked and are using the ccp system to actual sell them as used with zero miles while they have rotted in fields for more then over a year trust me I’ll still with a higher price if it means better safety and survival

Agree with the "rotted in a field" comment, but Tesla do that also, esp. for Cybertrucks.
A pile of cars spend a month or more rotting on a boat, in salt-water!. Some even sink!

The fires? change the battery, stop fixating on range, problem will not go away, but ICE cars also have fires (nasty ones) so it will even out in a bit.

I was stuck in traffic once, many years ago, a Bug (yes a real one) caught fire on the bridge over the rarirtan in NJ, I sat there, couple hours, got to work late, I got reamed.

Then about half the other folk also turned up late, and I got a mild apology.

 

[1yeliab_sufur1]

Agree with the "rotted in a field" comment, but Tesla do that also, esp. for Cybertrucks.
A pile of cars spend a month or more rotting on a boat, in salt-water!. Some even sink!

The fires? change the battery, stop fixating on range, problem will not go away, but ICE cars also have fires (nasty ones) so it will even out in a bit.

I was stuck in traffic once, many years ago, a Bug (yes a real one) caught fire on the bridge over the rarirtan in NJ, I sat there, couple hours, got to work late, I got reamed.

Then about half the other folk also turned up late, and I got a mild apology.

True and i bet that bug had the original air cooled engine nasty thing that

 

[Paul Rodgers]

oh yes, it was one of those definitely.
Small oil leak, collects in the drip-pan under the motor, touch of a tiny gas leak? gets hot, exhast gets hotter

Ooomph, gone in 60 seconds

Still, I really liked that car, simple, sturdy, never stuck as long as tires were not bald.
Even in snow, just put 2-3 bags of salt in the back, your OK!
Rebuilt a few, including a van once. If I had limitless $ it would be an OLD VW combie, with the splittie windshield.
It was not worth it, rough, rusty, rattled. Something fell off every other mile.

Somehow though, these are the ones you remember.
Not the Toyota-Corolla, Ford-Tempo, 3 separate minivans, etc.

Though I DO REMEMBER the Ford Mercury Cougar from about 1982 that could not climb the hill on I80 out of NJ any faster than about 45mph

SO? what cars do you-all remember fondly, (i.e. you liked them, good or bad)

Me? only 2
1) 1984 Isuzu Trooper. The only vehicle my baby daughter would sleep in.
When Mum got desperate I'd put her in the car-seat and do a few laps.
It ate 3 distributors in 200k miles.

2) 1962 triumph bonneville, first vehicle I had that would break 100. Easily.
but even with fancy tires it could not keep up with a Norton 600SS.

May the Slate have these memories!