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My tried and tried method: buy whatever meets specs and is cheaper. Utilize sales and rebates and stock up when synthetic oil costs less than Walmart "dino"

Tent on the ground is sooooo much cheaper and more practical. Add a tarp if its muddy or something. $40 table from walmart and there's your kitchen. 20 min setup time. Its not like we're in Australia or Africa and are worried about crazy animals. I can't help but attribute blame the whole RTT...

On our Toyotas, they recommend locking the vehicle, always - so if its in your locked garage, they say to lock the vehicle - it prevents it from being in a "ready" state and draining the battery faster. It is a common issue with newer vehicles and all the additional electronics and wireless /...

What model # of the airlift kits did you use for the hybrid? Thanks!

Careful, we drive our FWD Prius Prime from CA to UT, WY, ID and MT for snowboarding road trips - toss on our set of winter tires and go. We seem to be the only sedan in a sea of trucks and SUVs out that way and drive respectably for the road conditions - which isn't common from what we see. We...

^ Confirmation bias meets tribalism on the EB vs hybrid debate! I'm just glad that Ford's eco boost has been around so long and is flawless. It makes picking a winner so much easier.

Yep. Whenever I look at Total Cost of Ownership for vairous vehicles, I take the current gas price and add $.50-1.00 per gallon, for the estimates. Favors high mpg vehicles - which is why the Mav is the first truck I've ever seriously considered.

10/12 of one year, roughly

Take the time to get an offer from KBB (instant cash offer), CarMax, Vroom.com, Shift.com, Driveway.com, Carvana.com, etc You'll likely make thousands of dollars for a few mins of time. If you get a deal on sales tax with a trade, have the dealer match the "net" of your highest offer.

List it on eBay with an auction and reserve price. Do your best to spread the word on the auction and hope it goes for more than you'd get reselling it to Carvana. (or use your Carvana offer as the reserve price)

Finance the truck - is she going to want 50% of a debt? If you buy it in cash, then she owns half (if comm. property state). Not a lawyer, but married to one 🤷‍♂️

Exactly. There is a short period of time where you can buy a brand new vehicle and sell it for a profit. Take advantage of that if you can and want to. Every easy dollar you make, makes the vehicle you keep that much cheaper. There was a great business buying VW diesels and selling them back to...

And if you drive in town at 35 mph or less, you can get up to 35 miles on that charge. That's what my commute turns in.

Everyone talks about battery replacement - like it's common - I'd be just as concerned about turbo chargers blowing up, and guess what? They don't have an extended factory warranty! By the time your battery needs replacement (which is unlikely), you've saved enough in fuel costs to pay for it...

The proof is all the overpriced used Mavs for sale online!

At 65 mph a hybrid should easily pull 40+ mpg - its 70-75 mph hwy speeds where the delta between EB and hybrid gets pretty small.

$3k in aftermarket is $0 for resale, though - unless you find a private buyer who wants exactly what you modified, then figure 50%, if you're lucky. All of the online places have a check for "modifications" - I haven't tested it, but my guess is that saying "yes" will lower your offer.

We have ebikes everywhere now! And if you ride everyday, you'll lose some of that fat... lol I rode a bike for a while - felt like the way I would most easily die (and I enjoy rock climbing) - going from a prius prime with solar at home to a Mav will annoy the frugal/efficiency maximizing side...

We have a '21 Prime LE - which we'd sell when the '23 Mav XL gets built (10/9...) Tough choice - that Prius Prime is so darn efficient and was an incredible deal, plus we have solar, so having a plug-in is awesome for "free" around town miles. (plus base Prius has ACC - eff you Ford!) We'll see...