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Ex-Hertz Tesla Model 3s Cost as Little as $14,000. Would You Buy One?
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Posted on 01/17/2024 5:26:40 PM PST by FarCenter

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21 posted on 01/17/2024 5:53:05 PM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: Codeflier

It’s a pretty good deal... Until they catch on fire in your garage, and burn your house down.


22 posted on 01/17/2024 5:53:46 PM PST by Fido969
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To: FarCenter
I saw no mention in the article of any included extra batteries.


23 posted on 01/17/2024 5:56:38 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: FarCenter

I love how a car that sold new back in the day for over $60K is now worth $14,000.

Would I buy one? No. I’m retired. But when I was working my office had employee parking with some charging stations. Free!

It would have benefited me a lot to own a Tesla since my commute was 50 miles. Each way. But the $50K price tag was too much. I bought a VW Jetta for under $20,000 that got 40 mpg.

Problem solved.


24 posted on 01/17/2024 5:58:49 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: FarCenter
Sounds like a GREAT opportunity to buy a "piece of $HIT!"
25 posted on 01/17/2024 5:59:24 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: catbertz
man that’s a hot deal!

 

I see what you did there.

 


26 posted on 01/17/2024 6:01:08 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Responsibility2nd

It’ s nice to be seen! 🍺😂


27 posted on 01/17/2024 6:02:24 PM PST by catbertz
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To: FarCenter

Nope!


28 posted on 01/17/2024 6:03:19 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Kenny Bania

Sometimes part of the point of renting a car is to drive it like a rental.


29 posted on 01/17/2024 6:05:13 PM PST by KingLudd
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To: FarCenter

IF they paid me $14K, I guess I would reluctantly take one off their hands for em.


30 posted on 01/17/2024 6:11:19 PM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created..." )
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To: FarCenter

Nope. If I needed another vehicle it would be another of the one I currently drive.


31 posted on 01/17/2024 6:13:40 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: FarCenter

32 posted on 01/17/2024 6:13:53 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: FarCenter

Hard pass....

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-owners-struggle-charge-cars-freezing-chicago-temperatures-2024-1


33 posted on 01/17/2024 6:18:11 PM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: FarCenter

I live in Pennsylvania.

It is currently 12 degrees.

An EV would be useless to me, and anyone else who lives in PA.


34 posted on 01/17/2024 6:18:15 PM PST by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: Prince of Space
Hertz always sells vehicles at a discount after 2-3 years or 40,000 miles. We bought our 2018 Nissan Murano with 43,000 miles from Hertz in Scottsdale.

We bought our 2018 Toyota Avalon in March 2019 with 23,000 miles on it for $20,000 (manufactured in January 2018, 14 months old). Great car. Except we have gone through TWO batteries in the Phoenix summers. And on our third set of Michelins at 93,000 miles. 100% satisfied with the value. We got ours from the Camelback location in Phoenix.I didn't know about a Scottsdale location, just Camelback and Bell Road in Phoenix.
35 posted on 01/17/2024 6:22:53 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: FarCenter

Would I buy one? Nope.


36 posted on 01/17/2024 6:23:26 PM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: Kenny Bania
I hear the renters "beat the hell out of them..."

Hertz mainly rents to businessmen. My dark blue Toyota Avalon from Hertz shows no evidence of having been mistreated.
37 posted on 01/17/2024 6:23:56 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: FarCenter

If I lived in a warm place, had a parking place for the home charger, and didn’t need the vehicle as my primary transportation but as a second car, yeah, maybe


38 posted on 01/17/2024 6:34:38 PM PST by Fai Mao (Starve the Beast and steal its food.)
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To: FarCenter

Would never buy a car from a rental to start with yet alone a electric one.


39 posted on 01/17/2024 6:35:21 PM PST by funwithfood
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To: FarCenter

They are going to PAY ME $14,000 to take one? Let me think about it.


40 posted on 01/17/2024 6:38:01 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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