Stupid Black Stupid Friday Stupid
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1.3 diesel corsa.
I learned to drive in a diesel Corsa. There's a reason every car I've ever owned is a petrol car, and absolutely not a Vauxhall.You have my deepest sympathies.
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It is a piece of piss to drive.
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TBH I will probably get one after I pass, they are cheap to insure and run.
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TBH I will probably get one after I pass, they are cheap to insure and run.
So is the superior Ford Fiesta; I'm on my second
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they are cheap to insure and run.
Right - but there are much better cars which are also cheaper to insure and run.
The current model of Corsa is especially awful, the previous one was alright.
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Speaking of cheap to run, just taxed the car...
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I am going to get a second hand Clio, Corsa, Fiesta or something else small. Don't really care much.
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Depending on how old you're thinking, the Clio or Fiesta are probably better bets. Or a Polo Bluemotion - that's what I'd have if I didn't need a bigger car.
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My trailer (which you will note is an 18ft flatbed with literally nothing going on) is $160.
My car is $135. My shitty truck is $51 ('historic') and my good truck is either $214 or $90 depending on whether they want to assess the $214 10000lb rate or the $18/ton rate. Guess which one they assess? Have been thinking about modifying it to push it up over 10k GVWR to force the $18/ton rate. It wouldn't be hard. Just some springs.
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I was thinking realistically less than 4 grand and I don't want anything too special since it likely to get keyed by the local scumbags in my area.
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I would get a car that is cheap to run, but then I remembered that I only live once.
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My car is $135. My shitty truck is $51 ('historic') and my good truck is either $214 or $90 depending on whether they want to assess the $214 10000lb rate or the $18/ton rate. Guess which one they assess? Have been thinking about modifying it to push it up over 10k GVWR to force the $18/ton rate. It wouldn't be hard. Just some springs.
Be careful it doesn't force you into a different category for other things, such as needing a different type of registration with the DMV or a different type of driving license. (Whether it will or not will depend on lots of things I don't know about.)
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So is the superior Ford Fiesta; I'm on my second
That was my first car. It was an ancient-at-the-time Fiesta Popular with a sub-litre engine. Reasonable 4-speed gearbox though, so you could make it move if you knew what you were doing. Well, as long as “move” didn't include going over 85mph; it really didn't want to do that. Kept it (well, between me and my brother) until it started rusting faster than we could patch and paint it…
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Be careful it doesn't force you into a different category for other things, such as needing a different type of registration with the DMV or a different type of driving license. (Whether it will or not will depend on lots of things I don't know about.)
Eh, bog standard driver's license is 26000lbs Combined weight, 10klbs trailer weight when not used in federally regulated Motor Carrier duties and not used in the commission of intrastate commerce (interstate is fine). I need a bigger driver's license not because of the truck's weight class, but because I really need a 15klb enclosed trailer.Moving to the weight-based registration scheme means I need to move up the maintenance cycle, but that's an arduous 'get a mechanic to inspect it every 6 months' - hardly worse than most state's normal 12-month inspection cycle.
(ITT: Buncha europeans talking abut sub-liter class Ford Fiestas, and an American talking about registering a diesel pickup truck like one of these:
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.... how'd you get a picture of cousin Jeb's truck?
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Because I'm sorta related to Cousin Jeb (I apparently literally do not have a picture of my truck, except for the one from the Craigslist advert):
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i guarantee i get better gas mileage than you do....
but damn ain't that a purdy truck.
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Ex-USAF. Somethingorother at Dover AFB. It really ain't very purdy anymore. I don't bother with things like 'washing' or 'cleaning the interior' or 'bothering to blend paint patches on the bed.' Also, the toolboxes are fugly up close. Diamondplate panels screwed to cheap, water-swelled oriented strand board that's been spraypainted black.
Really need to take them off and replace 'em. They aren't watertight and don't close properly thanks to the swelling.
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i'm choosing to believe it looks as awesome as it did on the day that photo was taken. ;-)
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needs a drop, tint, and clears
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Can always trust Cards Against Humanity to do something so wrong, it's right:
They sold out in half an hour
Edit: Maybe we could have one-boxing for Ars Technica?
And that emoji is incredibly happy with its being a pile of shit...
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I drive a 10-year-old Fiesta and I love that car. I'm irrationally certain that it wouldn't allow me to have an accident. And it's reliable as anything (even if one thing you can always rely on is having no power to speak of).
It was a family car when I was a kid, and my parents are going to give it to me as they want rid.
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Wow, I apparently didn't check DailyWTF all weekend or I would have posted this gem:
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My combined registration renewal and property taxes bill just came in. The biggest component of the bill isn't the registration renewal (licensed for 6 tons), or the transaction fees, or the property taxes...it's the City of Omaha's bloody wheel tax at $160!
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the City of Omaha's bloody wheel
You crazy American's with your crazy fairground rides...
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bloody wheel tax
Maybe if you cleaned off the possum entrails before the renewal...[size=8]I'll see myself out[/size]
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Property tax on a vehicle? That's ridiculous.
And wheel tax as in... two per axle? One per tire? And 160 per? Jesus.
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I think that tax is paid by all vehicles to pay up for road maintenance and that sort of stuff... at least that's how they sell it to us in this part of the world. And yes, we pay by wheels: bikes pay less than cars. Not sure about tricycles though.
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We call it road tax in the UK and three-wheeled cars pay the same as motorbikes, so I imagine trikes must do.
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Officially it's called Vehicle Excise Duty, and hasn't been restricted to paying for road maintenance in years.
Also, newer small cars pay less than bikes. My bike is about £60 a year, the car is £20. The bike still gets better mpg than the car
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We call it road tax in the UK and three-wheeled cars pay the same as motorbikes, so I imagine trikes must do.
It's not really determined by the number of wheels though, is it? Vehicle class and emissions
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I'm used to property taxes, but this is the first place I've ever lived that had wheel taxes. It was $160 total, I have no idea how it's calculated. All I know is I'm used to property taxes being a major yearly expense, and then to have this extra wheel tax too was unexpected.
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It was $160 total, I have no idea how it's calculated.
Using some assumptions and basic mathematics:
Let n represent the number of wheels.
Let t represent the total tax charged in dollars.
Let x be the tax per wheel in dollars.t = nx
Rearranging for x:
x = t/n
Assuming n = 4 and substituting $160 for t:
x = 160/4
x = 40If my calculations are correct, I suspect that they charge $40 per wheel. You could save $120 by switching to a unicycle.
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You could save $120 by switching to a unicycle.
or $160 by switching to a tank/hovercar/snowmobile
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You could save $120 by switching to a unicycle.
We'll see when my motorcycle stuff comes in in a few months. I'm guessing it's based on vehicle category in such a way that it will be just as expensive for a 350-pound motorcycle.
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You're getting a one-wheeled motorcycle?
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You're getting a one-wheeled motorcycle?
Would it count if I finally learned how to wheelie? And the bigger question is would the city consider it a unicycle for wheel tax purposes?
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sure:
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they make those now?
@accalia wants!
Well, there was this thing:
But the company seems to have more or less stopped operating.
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It also quite clearly possesses wheels.
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There aren't enough bears in this country to make it worthwhile.
In England it's all about the arms of aristocrats anyway.
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It also quite clearly possesses wheels.
Only to stop it scraping along the floor. All the power/turning/other shit comes from the four big-ass fan pod things.I guess if that sort of vehicle ever took off (har har), Omaha would come up with a 'big-ass fan pod thing tax'.
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Officially it's called Vehicle Excise Duty
Nope. They've renamed it again. "Vehicle Tax."
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Interestingly, the result of other countries like the UK absorbing the Great Day of Avarice is that they now have two of them.
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or $160 by switching to a tank/hovercar/snowmobile
If I were going to do something crazy like this I would make sure to modify an existing car to be a tracked vehicle. Then you make sure to send a picture to city hall telling them you're not sending in a wheel tax at all because you got no wheels.
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And when they remind you that wheels drive the treads, you can remind them that things with motors tend to have wheels in their constructions somewhere. They'll thank you and walk away happily with your money.
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And when they remind you that wheels drive the treads
"Oddly enough, they're all oval-shaped. Doesn't seem very wheel-y to me."
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Just sittin' here in my hovercraft, diggin' my tunes.
(Are you trying to tell me R2D2 has to pay a tax but C3PO gets off scot free?)