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Depends on what you are looking for in a car. The Ariya appears to be among the quietest for highway driving, measured by Bjorn's tests, it's quieter than regular Etron and close to Mercedes and BMW vehicles.
Based on what I read, some 2022 Mach E reservations might still be waiting. A 2023 was delivered to my order this week per the communication that Ford sent, but 2023 cost about $7000+ more than 2022. So with higher interest rates and poor financial market this year, that was too much for me.
Ariya price change was minimal, I think less than $1500, and reservations kept the lower price, but just a longer wait.
The thing about the factory window tint is that it is dark glass, it doesn't wear off or get scratched. In my current car it's in the rear side and back windows.
Premiere and Platinum. Sorry and Empower+ as noted below
If you have the binding agreement then your delivery date is in 2022 so you can file in 2022 taxes.
The rules of the IRA legislation is that all grandfathered purchases are considered delivered on August 2022 the day before the IRA was signed by Biden, regardless of physical delivery date.
There was no US Ariya with an estimated price of 38K, that was based on if you got the tax incentives. I took this screen shot in August. Venture pricing is shown as $45,950 before the destination charge ($1295), before the current pricing.
Unfortunately the newly updated IRS rules may change the ability to get the credit, FYI.
The actual bill signed into law says this, but the new IRS update seems to have different requirements now. FYI, so possible issue.
If you are able to get it today in 2022 then you are safer regarding the IRS credit, since the rules were updated a couple of days ago.
You should try to get it purchased in 2022 to be safer regarding the tax credit. Even if you take deliver and drive out of the parking lot and back in, then they can clean it up for later pickup.
There is a regulation book for vehicle class, it is old, but those are the rules they are following. A 3 row vehicle with fold down seats seems to be considered a truck (SUV) versus being a passenger car.
They shouldn't have left basically no time for people to act. Two and a half days during the holiday time isn't anything.
The bottom image is a computer rendering, so the colors may not be accurate. All the reviews I saw show that color like in the top picture.
The other thing is the color of the light coming through the glass roof. The roof has a tint and could affect the light shining on the fabric.
The Venture+ only comes with 120V charger, according to the window sticker. The others should have the dual voltage.
Not sure if I would test drive an Engage since it is the smaller battery, unless that is the one you plan to get. I would be concerned there are differences in the driving.
Do they say it came to them like that? I suppose it's possible the factory does extended checks on a few units, but we don't really know.
Most of the debt is based on car loans, which will be large when you have millions of loans. This will be true for most establish car companies, with millions of cars sold. From what I could find, the debt number is about half what you indicated.
I won't bother watching it, since Nissan currently sells 3-4 EV models now, that makes them much further ahead than competing Japanese brands and other legacy brands. They just need to get the factories set up to make higher volumes. The Ariya factory video is impressive, from what it appears only seats and some interior parts are put in by people, the rest is basically automated. Though there is probably more labor during the battery/chassis build that isn't seen.
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