DaddyDeuce
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Three weeks ago I bought myself a Cyber Orange 2022 GT Performance Edition. It's been a long path for me to get here.
I've known for years that an EV would make good sense, but things just kept not coming together to buy myself one. We have three kids and I always saw the role of my vehicle to be the family hauler and road-trip queen. When our third child started getting bigger I sold my Chrysler 300C and bought a Chevy Suburban. I watched from the sidelines as the Tesla models S and X started to take off. The economics of charging at home and the tax incentives weren't lost on me, but the expensive and unproven Teslas were out of my price range.
When the Model 3 was announced I put my money down to join the waiting list. But when my turn came up I still couldn't justify getting rid of the Suburban, and I asked my wife if she wanted to buy it instead. She declined because it didn't have a power tailgate. Got my money back from Tesla.
Years went by.
Last year my wife got a new job and wanted to trade up her vehicle. The incentives on EVs still looked compelling to me but the range anxiety wasn't something she could get past. We compromised and bought a Toyota RAV4 Prime, which she promptly treated like an EV. Every night she tops off on a level 1 charger and she can do her daily commute 100% on battery. As a PHEV it qualified for all the EV incentives.
My parents are elderly and only drive to buy groceries and for medical appointments. A few months after my wife upgraded, their twenty year old Buick was looking at needing major work. I bought them a used first generation Nissan Leaf to replace the Buick instead. Although they were doubtful at first they love the car now. The Leaf has better acceleration than what they came from and they aren't missing buying gas at all. I meant to set them up with a level 2 charger, but a level 1 ended up being all they needed.
A few months after that, one of my teenagers was in an accident (unhurt) that led to the car I bought her being totaled. At this point I'm pretty sold on the idea of EVs so a brand new Bolt EUV joined the family. General Motors also paid for an electrician to install a level 2 charger. I cannot overstate how much I love that little Bolt EUV. It's fun to drive and cheap to power.
At this point everyone in my family has moved to either an EV or PHEV except for me. I've been working from home since Covid and the Suburban doesn't see many miles these days. However, I had a job change come my way that brings a 40 minute each way daily commute with it, and I knew that buying gas for the Suburban was going to get old quickly. It was time for Daddy to upgrade.
I'm a responsible person, I put my family first, and I started looking at a Toyota bZ4X. Toyota was offering some crazy incentives that meant I could have leased one for like $250 a month. But I really didn't want that car. The finances penciled out, but the emotions didn't.
I looked at a lot of EVs and PHEVs. Toyota bZ4X, Alfa Romeo Tonale, Hyundai Konas and Ioniq 5s, Nissan Ariyas, VW ID.4s, I can't even remember how many. But there was a 2022 Cyber Orange GTPE sitting at a dealer a few hundred miles away I just couldn't get out of my mind. A few phone calls and a one-way plane ticket later and the car was mine.
This car is probably the nicest thing I've ever owned. I'm keeping the Suburban for hauling kids and dogs and Home Depot trips, but I just want to go outside and get in the Mach E and drive around for fun. It's been many many years since driving felt like a joy.
Reading posts around here I understand Ford may have stumbled a little for some of you, but when I look at this car I just see an amazing piece of engineering and I feel like I'm living in the future.
Anyway, that's my two cents, and that's why I'm here.
I've known for years that an EV would make good sense, but things just kept not coming together to buy myself one. We have three kids and I always saw the role of my vehicle to be the family hauler and road-trip queen. When our third child started getting bigger I sold my Chrysler 300C and bought a Chevy Suburban. I watched from the sidelines as the Tesla models S and X started to take off. The economics of charging at home and the tax incentives weren't lost on me, but the expensive and unproven Teslas were out of my price range.
When the Model 3 was announced I put my money down to join the waiting list. But when my turn came up I still couldn't justify getting rid of the Suburban, and I asked my wife if she wanted to buy it instead. She declined because it didn't have a power tailgate. Got my money back from Tesla.
Years went by.
Last year my wife got a new job and wanted to trade up her vehicle. The incentives on EVs still looked compelling to me but the range anxiety wasn't something she could get past. We compromised and bought a Toyota RAV4 Prime, which she promptly treated like an EV. Every night she tops off on a level 1 charger and she can do her daily commute 100% on battery. As a PHEV it qualified for all the EV incentives.
My parents are elderly and only drive to buy groceries and for medical appointments. A few months after my wife upgraded, their twenty year old Buick was looking at needing major work. I bought them a used first generation Nissan Leaf to replace the Buick instead. Although they were doubtful at first they love the car now. The Leaf has better acceleration than what they came from and they aren't missing buying gas at all. I meant to set them up with a level 2 charger, but a level 1 ended up being all they needed.
A few months after that, one of my teenagers was in an accident (unhurt) that led to the car I bought her being totaled. At this point I'm pretty sold on the idea of EVs so a brand new Bolt EUV joined the family. General Motors also paid for an electrician to install a level 2 charger. I cannot overstate how much I love that little Bolt EUV. It's fun to drive and cheap to power.
At this point everyone in my family has moved to either an EV or PHEV except for me. I've been working from home since Covid and the Suburban doesn't see many miles these days. However, I had a job change come my way that brings a 40 minute each way daily commute with it, and I knew that buying gas for the Suburban was going to get old quickly. It was time for Daddy to upgrade.
I'm a responsible person, I put my family first, and I started looking at a Toyota bZ4X. Toyota was offering some crazy incentives that meant I could have leased one for like $250 a month. But I really didn't want that car. The finances penciled out, but the emotions didn't.
I looked at a lot of EVs and PHEVs. Toyota bZ4X, Alfa Romeo Tonale, Hyundai Konas and Ioniq 5s, Nissan Ariyas, VW ID.4s, I can't even remember how many. But there was a 2022 Cyber Orange GTPE sitting at a dealer a few hundred miles away I just couldn't get out of my mind. A few phone calls and a one-way plane ticket later and the car was mine.
This car is probably the nicest thing I've ever owned. I'm keeping the Suburban for hauling kids and dogs and Home Depot trips, but I just want to go outside and get in the Mach E and drive around for fun. It's been many many years since driving felt like a joy.
Reading posts around here I understand Ford may have stumbled a little for some of you, but when I look at this car I just see an amazing piece of engineering and I feel like I'm living in the future.
Anyway, that's my two cents, and that's why I'm here.
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