When I've got to get to the hospital it can be a matter of life or death. In this hilly area significant snow or ice can be a serious problem.
When I was in my early 20s I bought a brand new Volvo. Paid a fortune and I loved that car (perhaps too much?). So, New Year's Eve and me and my fiancee decide to go to this party we heard about. We got there and it was about 20 people seated in a rough circle in the living room. Everyone was stoned and everyone was very quiet. My fiancee looked at me and I looked at her and we left. OMG, boring. So, I went out to my car parked on the street and there was this great big dent in my driver's door. Holy crap. I went back to the 'party' and asked around if anyone knew anything about running into a Volvo. Good Lord, I could hardly get anyone's attention and when I did I couldn't keep their attention long enough to finish my description. I threw up my hands in disgust thinking I'll never get satisfaction and left. As I went back to my car, a VW bus pulls up. It's painted in a psychedelic design and this hippy climbs out. He had bell bottom pants and hair as long as any girl I had seen the last 6 months. He says "Hey man, is that your car?" Yes, I answered and told him I had a huge dent. He says "Oh, wow, I think I did that and I don't have any insurance." He asked for my name and address and he gave me his name and address. He asked me to send him an estimate to get it fixed. I left thinking well that's the end of that I'll never see a dime. I got an estimate and sent it to him. Small checks started arriving on a monthly basis until the entire bill was paid in full. At that point, you could have knocked me over with a feather.
I'd love a Tesla but they cost $100,000. We could do it but my wife is balking at the Volvo so I'd have hard time selling her on a Tesla. My financial advisor, who is really like a dear friend, is advising us to spend a little of our money and get a new car. He owns a couple Nissans and suggested a Nissan. I really want a Volvo and my wife wants a car that gets 50 miles to the gallon. She and I have some talking to do.
uh...no....I've driven plenty of them...I'll take my ride anyday...better have a spare engine for the microbus and a line on used transaxles... my Japanese car rocks
Naah, I went square, it's only 16 inches now. Back in 1972 I got it up to 24 inches. Anyway, here's what you need. https://electrek.co/2018/06/10/tesla-roadster-elon-musk-thruster-backseat/
It was nearly 50 years ago. I don't think they even had internet back then. Hell, they didn't even have computers unless you want to count mainframes that used vacuum tubes and took up an entire room. The it took so many vacuum tubes that there was nearly always one or more failing. Pretty unreliable. Edit: I remember the days of IBM cards and how you could easily get one out of position and screw up your program or you'd maybe even drop the whole deck and spend an hour trying to get the cards back in order only to have one or more still out of place.
I don’t know if it is in your budget, but take a look at the RAV4 hybrid. I rode in a new one a few weeks ago and really liked it
Lexus builds a nice car but the front end grill design is one of the ugliest designs i have seen. Looks like a snow plow.
