Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

[Gale Hawkins]

funny...rolls is buying the engine/motor from someone else.

I think this is typically in the world of EV start ups like Tesla but quickly they realized "If it to be it is up to me".

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Europe's energy crisis is making the market nervous. And analysts expect record-high prices to persist

Spiking energy prices is a hard one to side step and was a key factor in deciding to tap Social Security 8 years later. Spiraling monthly costs was hard on my father's retirement when meds was taking all of his SS check.

 

[MossRoad]

...The most that I have ever paid for a new car is $2,150.00.

$169K cars is ONLY click bate for most of us
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Please elaborate on the two-thousand dollar new car. Thanks.

 

[lman]

Must have been in 1950.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Please elaborate on the two-thousand dollar new car. Thanks.

I didn't add the AM radio at the time of purchase. In the 200,000 we drove the car we never added AC.

Timing helped because I bought the Datsun 1200 while we were still on the gold standard in March 1973. By October 1973 and off the gold standard the price overnight shot up by $500.

 

[/pine]

...Don't fall for click bait nonsense EV articles...

LMAO....that would include about 98% of all the links posted in this thread....LoL...!

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Must have been in 1950.

I think the last $2000 new car went away in the early '60s. My parents bought a new Rambler Classic in 1962 for about $2k. "Old Blue" was the only car we ever named. They gave it to my younger sister when she got married. She and her husband drove it for about 10 years. It ran half a million miles and was still running when they traded it in.

 

[MossRoad]

My dad bought a '70 Nova new for I think $2900.

 

[Fuddy1952]

I think the last $2000 new car went away in the early '60s. My parents bought a new Rambler Classic in 1962 for about $2k. "Old Blue" was the only car we ever named. They gave it to my younger sister when she got married. She and her husband drove it for about 10 years. It ran half a million miles and was still running when they traded it in.

I still have my '66 Rambler American. Window sticker is $1895, it has optional seat belts

 

[cqaigy2]

I still have my '66 Rambler American. Window sticker is $1895, it has optional seat belts

Oh, man i had one of those in the 70's. I don't really remember if it had seat belts. I parted it out after losing the drive line. Bang. Shouldn't complain, i bought it for $5 and an A&W Teen burger. Pretty cool car though, as i found out when a started to take it apart. Unibody construction was one of the things i noted. There was a steady stream of customers restoring Ramblers.