Resale Value/Depreciation

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Interesting. Those are from the reveal. I see yours truly in the background of o e of the photos. I still do not want to post my similar pics because they look very unfinished and some of the suspension components look very temporary.
Ha! Never would have picked up on that but looked at the photo I took of you across the way at reveal when we got split up
 
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In terms of the undercarriage, the concepts were built to look similar to production vehicles. What you see in photos though isn’t worth worrying about as the production vehicles will be different.
Ayy!! Jamie! We missed you. Just don’t go through my profile lmao

Good to know that the undercarriage protection will be there, but will be different in production.
 
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Ouch. There must be a better way. Future proofing with software certainly helps. I’m sure there will be attractive leases. I’m more of purchase kinda person. If it’s great I will keep it a long time. If I don’t like it, I won’t. It would be nice to not have the deprecation fall off a cliff. On the other hand, I am not worried about the deprecation on my BMW iX. It’s full EV and while not as expensive as the Taycan, it wasn’t cheap. I like the car so much I just plan to keep it at least until I see what the real, production ready Scouts look like and what they cost.
Yeah I'm a buy the car and keep it 10 years kind of person, however when it came to our ID.4 we leased to capture the tax incentive, get all the incentives that were stacked on leases, and protect ourselves from unpredictable depreciation. Since the rate baked into the lease was better than financing rates anyway, we had nothing to lose. Of course we can also buy it out anytime then finance the rest but we won't. But outside of those circumstances, yes purchase.