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G. David Felt Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.CheersandGears.com Worst Used Cars Compare.com reviewed the insurance industry reports on auto's, accidents, quality reports and much more to build a 5 point list on used auto's and what NOT to buy. The break down comes as follows: 1) Trade-Ins Dealers DO NOT WANT: Mini Cooper Jaguar S-Type Land Rover Discovery Mazda CX-7 This is due to the high failure rate of the power-trains. 2) Dealers DO NOT WANT brands that are no longer made, unless they are limited production versions, but for sure they do not want the following: PT Cruiser Dodge Grand Caravan SAAB Suzuki Saturn 3) Dealers do not want cars with HIGH COST OF OWNERSHIP: Example given is 2010 Ford Focus with a cost of owner ship in first 5yrs of $27,805. 4) Dealers DO NOT WANT auto's with no title. 5) Dealers DO NOT WANT auto's with Funky smells such as: Gasoline Smell Burning Smell Sweet Smell Mildew Smell Smoke Smell So what do you think? Do you agree with this or not?
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G. David Felt Alternative Fuels & Propulsion writer www.CheersandGears.com TESLA PREOWNED SALE http://www.teslamotors.com/models/preowned Received this email today from Tesla for their first PreOwned sale. I was curious to see just how many and what types were available. 256 on their own preowned site and Florida leads the way with 43 listed. More surprising was that while the list was well divided between 2012, 2013 and 2014, the average for mileage was just a little over 10K miles. Then I continued to look and found 94 more tesla's for sale on the tesla motor club web site. 87 listed for sale on CarFax web site. LotPro had 7 listed. Ebay has 40 listed and AutoTrader has 322 listed and all are pretty low miles. Yes I would believe there is some duplicate listings between these sites, but the bigger shock is just how low the miles are for a car that is supposed to be the ultimate Green machine. How does one buy a 100K dollar car, only drive it less than 10K miles and 2 years later sell it. It would seem the market is not that big for pure electric auto's. Plus this many Tesla's for sale in the private side makes me think that many have over bought and then are tring to unload this luxury golf cart that cannot handle real life long distance road trips. Is it possible that Tesla's run is coming to an end as more people realize just how limited this auto is? What are your thoughts on the glut of Tesla Pre Owned EV's?
