Re:The Only McLaren F1 Technician in North America
by nl on Sunday December 24, 2017 @07:15PM
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Note that the question was about 200 mph, not kmph.
200 mph is pretty serious speed and people are interested what it is.
Re:The Only McLaren F1 Technician in North America
by jacquesm on Sunday December 24, 2017 @07:35PM
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Yes, I noticed. 320 KM/h give or take a little bit.
Re:The Only McLaren F1 Technician in North America
by nl on Sunday December 24, 2017 @09:50PM
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So..
A Corvette or maybe a Porsche? Both seem a stretch at the price and age.
Re:The Only McLaren F1 Technician in North America
by jacquesm on Monday December 25, 2017 @05:59AM
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> Both seem a stretch at the price and age.
Agreed ;) Also, the number of Corvettes on offer of that age is super low and I don't like them to begin with. Porsche is nice but as you noted expensive as well as very expensive maintenance wise. I did look at a couple but could not find one in my price bracket that would last even a year without major repairs.
The trick is that there is another regime for cars older than 15, for those cars you add 33% of their actual value to your income if they are company owned.
There is a small set of cars that are still viable after 15 years, that you can find with low mileage and whose actual value is low enough that there is substantial difference between 33% of that and 22% of the new value of a much newer car.
Low mileage old cars tend to be of a few brands only, it would be very hard to find an old Civic with few miles on it, I just checked and the lowest mileage Civic that is older than 15 years still has 100K+ km on it.