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My deal last year using Owners Choice, before our state tax incentive expired. 2014 BEV every option except the 20" MSRP $50,350 Residual: $31,720 (63%) Negotiated Discount: -$9k BMW UDE Coupon: -$1k Federal tax incentive: -$7,500 Georgia state tax incentive: -$5,000 Georgia TAVT (sales tax)...

The Nissan Leaf 24 month lease is basically free after the state incentive in Georgia. Keep in mind that with the BMW lease you are not getting the full $7,500 federal incentive. Owners Choice will allow you to collect the full incentive. Over 36 months the difference is $73/month towards the...

I have a Mini 801 that I took out of my old car and recently purchased a B40 / A118 Novatek. I haven't mounted either one yet.

My Infiniti FX45 had active cruise control 10 years ago in 2004. Back then it was more expensive and based on lasers, but did not work in traffic below 20mph. Second gen Infiniti system in 2008 went down to 0. I find the BMW system in my i3 to be easily fooled by bright lights and sometimes...

Keep documentation of everything in preparation for your lemon law case.

We do only one or two long trips, about 600 miles each way to visit relatives over Christmas in Illinois and about 450 to go to Florida. For those trips we will now only rent a car from Hertz or Sixt. I was considering renting a car for our annual Christmas trip, but decided to drive our SUV...

I almost never take the fob out of my pocket during the course of a day.

The compressor will never be completely silent. In a normal ICE car it is loud, but the engine masks it. I can't hear it when we're moving, but it is noticeable when we are parked. The AC compressor in our Smart fortwo Electric Drive is also pretty loud and actually slightly vibrates the...

I got it from United BMW Roswell. I think i could have done a little better, but I didn't want to push to hard and get stressed out.

Add a storage bin in the space where the REX engine would have gone.

I got 6% discount (~$3,100 off MSRP of $52,200) and was able to get $1k more than other local dealers for my trade. Negotiated all through email on the discount.

I'm getting a Terra BEV. The dark interior does look conventional compared to the other colors. I wanted all leather because we like to have our dog in the car with us and cloth would trap the dirt she tracks in. All our cars have always had all leather seats, even our Smart ED. I wished...

This is our second plug in, we leased the Smart ED on whim 6 months ago and found that it met our needs, but not really our wants. This is my second BMW. 1980 Pontiac Trans Am, 1983 Nissan Maxima, 1996 Honda Civic EX Coupe, 2000 BMW 323i, 2004 Infiniti FX45, 2003 Audi TT Cabriolet. Currently...

Is there a plan to roll out CCS EVSE at BMW dealers like Nissan rolled out CHAdeMO at dealers?