Ancestors

Written by Robin Frousheger on 2024-04-21 at 13:53

spent several hours watching youtube videos of cars and car interiors to try and find the suitable shortlist of cars that will fit 5 adults and not cost $100,000. CarExpert guy has a great consistent review format including 2nd row seating.

also, car prices have gone up a lot in the 3 years since we last looked at cars 👎🏻

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Written by Robin Frousheger on 2024-04-22 at 01:25

this has started a chain of getting on the blower that I'm not entirely comfortable with..

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Written by Robin Frousheger on 2024-04-22 at 11:50

a fun piece of info is that leases for ev and phev cars can be 100% fbt exempt allowing finance to be bundled pre-tax.

also fun, we can probably offload our current lease car (suzuki vitara turbo) for more than the current balloon value.

we might be moving on this quicker than thought.

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Written by Robin Frousheger on 2024-04-23 at 04:10

we took 4 of our 5 humans for a squishing-in-cars journey and ruled out a lot of cars. weirdly even the EV9, massive whale that it is, is still hard to fit 5 adults in.

seems likely that the MG HS +EV might be our best option for now. 50km-ish EV range will do for the daily driver needs, while also meeting budget and squishing humans. better than our current vitara, costs approximately the same on-road as a replacement vitara, but also eligible for the EV lease benefits.

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Toot

Written by Robin Frousheger on 2024-04-23 at 13:05

because my brain won't let this stuff go, i'm watching more car videos and took a screen grab of one reason why many of the cars we tried don't fit 3 people in the 2nd row.

look at the curvature of that middle seat compared to the outboard seats!

who could be comfortable sitting in that for more than 5 mins? no.

(that's the BYD Atto 3, which seems an extreme case, but many cars have a hard plank or convex middle seat)

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Descendants

Written by Robin Frousheger on 2024-04-25 at 03:02

i’m grumpy because the model Y probably meets most/all of our requirements but their safety is a big question, in addition to the company and ownership

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