Any GTAM'ers own an electric vehicle?

When I was shopping around for used Y's, they seem to have warranty up to 180,000kms. That being said this is paid for by work so not really worried about that, if it breaks it gets fixed. Lots to get used to with the screen in the car that controls everything. Thankfully the basics are pretty simple.
My understanding is the the battery is warrantied to 180k.

All the rest is not. And those bits ain’t cheap either.

Regardless…

Love my Maverick
Love my Maverick
Love my Maverick
Love (?) my Maverick…
 
Nice congrats! I wouldn’t mind a used one but damn if I’m too worried about having one out of warranty which is the only way I could afford one.

Love my Maverick but when it’s time to replace and I can’t afford an F150L then I’d love a Y.
Not sure if the overall market is crashed. But Tesla Plaids are a bargain right now. I'd be tempted when I'm done with the Jag.
 
Where are these cheap cars I don't see them anywhere

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1000hp for $70k with battery warranty is bonkers.
 


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1000hp for $70k with battery warranty is bonkers.
Both QC cars. With their Ev incentives, not a big surprise that the turnover is higher and the used prices are lower.
 
Both QC cars. With their Ev incentives, not a big surprise that the turnover is higher and the used prices are lower.
1st one is Oakville, or did you do some digging? I just glanced.

But yeah, i know the market is cheaper and the EV market is way more competitive there. Even if you check ON ones, it's like 5-10k more expensive. Even at 75k that's still a 50k?+ depreciation.
 
1st one is Oakville, or did you do some digging? I just glanced.

But yeah, i know the market is cheaper and the EV market is way more competitive there.
autotrader lets you see carfax. Car is in etobicoke but last registered in QC. Shouldn't etobicoke dealer have transferred ownership? Or maybe carfax just tracks transactions like plates? Does a dealership have to transfer registration to themselves within six days? If someone takes it for a test drive and they have owned it for months and it's registered to a QC person, that could be a messy traffic stop.
 


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1000hp for $70k with battery warranty is bonkers.
I have a very different definition of ‘cheap’ …

Then I remember who I’m dealing with here 😂😂😂

GTAM baller club.
 


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1000hp for $70k with battery warranty is bonkers.
About $70K, four years old, used. A friend just bought a brand new one for $110K.

So $40K over four years ($10K / Year) is 10% depreciation.

In general, used car prices are stupid. Someone else got the cream for next to nothing. ICE isn't much different except for the EV battery anxiety issue.
 
About $70K, four years old, used. A friend just bought a brand new one for $110K.

So $40K over four years ($10K / Year) is 10% depreciation.

In general, used car prices are stupid. Someone else got the cream for next to nothing. ICE isn't much different except for the EV battery anxiety issue.
He got it for $15k off new? Makes it an even better deal.

2025 pricing just jumped to $135k starting btw
 
Saw & heard my first Dodge Daytona Scat Pack today. He had the Fratzonic exhaust on and it sounded pretty convincing (nice V8 rumble).

It never "shifted" though so I kept expecting the sound to peak and then drop down ... not sure if it did or not as he got further away from me but it was good looking in my eyes that's for sure.

Like this one:

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Saw & heard my first Dodge Daytona Scat Pack today. He had the Fratzonic exhaust on and it sounded pretty convincing (nice V8 rumble).

It never "shifted" though so I kept expecting the sound to peak and then drop down ... not sure if it did or not as he got further away from me but it was good looking in my eyes that's for sure.

Like this one:

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Apparently they don't "shift". That's a Hyundai Ioniq 5 N thing.

I don't mind the way the new Charger looks; it's just far too big and heavy for what I want.

I still think this was a botched launch. EV + muscle car + decades of "hemi all the things" advertising was never going to work. Chrysler has a long history of luxo-barge nameplates that they could re-use. Newport, New Yorker, Imperial. They should have made the 4-door available at launch, loaded up on the luxury bits inside and out, skipped the stupid fake exhaust, and marketed it as an Imperial, with a base model as a Newport and a sportier intermediate model as a 300 (which is a nameplate with recent history). EVs quiet and smooth nature makes for a good luxury car; not so much a hot-rod.
 
Way too big for my needs as well but it actually didn't look as big as I was expecting it to.
 
I got FSD (Full Self Drive) on my company Tesla Y on the weekend. Boss was generous enough to add it to the car. Pretty amazing how good FSD is. I used it to go into Kitchener on Sunday when I went to Church. Flawless on the highway going into Kitchener, flawless in town and in town. Used it for my morning commute to Listowel which is a little under an hour. Again flawless save one spot on the 86. So enjoyable to sit back and let the car do its thing. I will be using this daily for sure. Technology is pretty spectacular in this car.
 
I got FSD (Full Self Drive) on my company Tesla Y on the weekend. Boss was generous enough to add it to the car. Pretty amazing how good FSD is. I used it to go into Kitchener on Sunday when I went to Church. Flawless on the highway going into Kitchener, flawless in town and in town. Used it for my morning commute to Listowel which is a little under an hour. Again flawless save one spot on the 86. So enjoyable to sit back and let the car do its thing. I will be using this daily for sure. Technology is pretty spectacular in this car.
Just don't get too comfortable. Sadly, humans are awful at maintaining focus when we have nothing to do. FSD works great until it doesn't. If it's bad decision lines up with your brain taking a break, you can end up squished.

I suspect that at some point, FSD will be limited to driving in heavy traffic. With low closing speeds and minimal places to go, it is ideally suited for that application. At some point, governments or insurance companies will concede that too many deaths have happened by beta testing Level 2 or 3 systems in public while pretending they are Level 4/5.
 
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Just don't get too comfortable. Sadly, humans are awful at maintaining focus when we have nothing to do. FSD works great until it doesn't. If it's bad decision lines up with your brain taking a break, you can end up squished.

I suspect that at some point, FSD will be limited to driving in heavy traffic. With low closing speeds and minimal places to go, it is ideally suited for that application. At some point, governments or insurance companies will concede that too many deaths have happened by beta testing Level 2 or 3 systems in public while pretending they are Level 4/5.
you have to stay away, it literally warns you if your eyes are not on the road. It has a camera watching you on top of all the cameras watching the road. 1984 is alive and wall in Tesla's, they just look much nicer then the cold hard concrete world where Big Brother is in control.

If you have not tried FSD it is worth scheduling a free demo drive at Tesla. It is pretty amazing. I have lane assist in my Subaru Outback, I thought that was spectacular when I first got the car new in 2020. It would keep me in my lane and follow gentle curves. I remember testing it out on the highway from Stratford to the other side of Waterloo via the expressway way and it handled it the entire way. No Lange changes of course, just middle lane all the way with adaptive cruise control on. FSD is light years ahead, handles more than just gentle curves in the road with ease. Not saying you should trust it completely, but it does an amazing job and it will only get better the more data and learning it does. I would imagine more trouble would be had in heavily congested areas, getting confused, people walking in front, construction, etc. Less damage to be had slow moving of course, but more to tax the computational power.
 
you have to stay away, it literally warns you if your eyes are not on the road. It has a camera watching you on top of all the cameras watching the road. 1984 is alive and wall in Tesla's, they just look much nicer then the cold hard concrete world where Big Brother is in control.

If you have not tried FSD it is worth scheduling a free demo drive at Tesla. It is pretty amazing. I have lane assist in my Subaru Outback, I thought that was spectacular when I first got the car new in 2020. It would keep me in my lane and follow gentle curves. I remember testing it out on the highway from Stratford to the other side of Waterloo via the expressway way and it handled it the entire way. No Lange changes of course, just middle lane all the way with adaptive cruise control on. FSD is light years ahead, handles more than just gentle curves in the road with ease. Not saying you should trust it completely, but it does an amazing job and it will only get better the more data and learning it does. I would imagine more trouble would be had in heavily congested areas, getting confused, people walking in front, construction, etc. Less damage to be had slow moving of course, but more to tax the computational power.
I've been a passenger on a couple of drives and the technology is great. The safety question is awkward because the FSD will get zero forgiveness when there is a collision while poor old penniless Herb gets an "Aw shucks, we all make mistakes.".

The numbers that count will be crashes per million kilometers for human control vs sleep while driving. The purists will argue that even one system flaw is one too many, even though the human variant can have multiple.
 
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