Cost vs. practicality?
How does one choose how much practicallity to get vs. cost?
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Seriously! The bridge was closed Thursday and it's going to be that way for a long time.
And even with the bridge open, that was the route I'd take the Nissan Leaf on and eventually needed a tow truck because winter had set in. Maybe I'm looking at this wrong. Maybe I need to start a ferry service. They actually had to boat kids back home from school last week because there was no way for the school bus to get around. |
All of that depends on how much your time is worth. If your time is worth very little, you walk. If your time is worth a lot, you fly. Most of us fall between those extremes for most circumstances.
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I've always been attracted to #5 (or lower). Two door cars tend to be much more uncompromising in their designs, and that "purism" brings me joy. Name a two seater and I probably like it.
You can even make them not keep you out of the weather if you get a soft top. But, in all seriousness, money is freedom. Driving a G1 Insight for a decade paid for itself many times over. Even if I had needed to rent something with backseats a dozen times per year, it still would have been better (financially) than owning something with backseats. |
I've got to rent a passenger van a couple times this summer and so far it looks like it's going to cost an arm and a leg for only a few days. Sometimes I cuestion if not buying a van is actually saving me any money.
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Arcimoto FUV.
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Sometimes I come to the conclusion that, if I were going to own more than one vehicle, most likely the best choice would be a VW Kombi for most tasks I could need anything larger than a motorcycle, and maybe a Honda ADV 160 for short errands and a 250cc Yamaha with a side-car (which would be useful to haul car parts, tools and dogs).
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