Gas based car? It's a joke. Pure EV or bust.
If you're buying a car that uses gas with the expectation of keeping it for more than 5 years, you're making a massive mistake. The value is going to plummet to nothing.
I'm putting down my deposit on the Tesla Model 3 in 13 days, 1 hour, and 35 minutes. It starts at $25K (after incentives) with a 200 mile range, full autonomous driving, and being a pure EV means it's stupid easy to maintain. No transmission, oil, gas, etc to maintain. It's just a couple of motors connected to a giant battery. 1/10th as many parts as an engine, meaning 1/10th as many things that can fail. $80 to swap out the battery every 50K miles (they refurbish them). The most vulnerable part of the car is the tires. It uses ordinary tires, so they'll need replacing as often as any other car, and it's just as difficult as on any other car. Recharge whenever you're at home for about $0.02/mile (gas will never be that cheap. You'd need a car getting 50 MPG at $1.00/gallon... more efficient than any hybrid I've ever seen, at a lower price than I've seen gas in the last 15 years.) Recharge for free in 30 minutes at a supercharger whenever you're going more than 200 miles on a trip.
If my current car fails before my Model 3 arrives in mid-late 2017, I'll be finding myself an old, cheap junker to get me through until then. Under no conditions will I ever be buying another gas based car that costs more than $4K.
