My gf wants me to spend $40k on an electric car

[paulkienitz]

33. WE BOUGHT IT... FOR TWO DAYS.

We actually took the car home and then took it back. The gf had tried to look up complaints about the car at the NHTSB, and thought that it came back pretty clean, but after we got it home she tried again and this time found the reports she had missed. And some were scary. Changed the picture of what we thought we'd been buying. Also, the honeymoon period with the new suspension was very short — it's still nowhere near smooth enough. Fortunately the dealership had given us a three day window, and was gracious and didn't argue. They weren't high pressure dicks at any point. We guess it may be because they serve a lot of commercial and fleet customers who need long term support and are repeat buyers. The lot has plenty of identical white trucks and vans for them.

So we're going for the second best environmental option, which is to keep our old car, which does get good mileage. I'm going to start shopping for a suspension conversion to soften it as much as we can reasonably get away with. And an add-on backup camera.