Has anyone purchased a new vehicle lately, the prices are off the wall.
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Americans should man the **** up and stop trying to squeeze a third seat into an SUV.
Get a mother ******* minivan that can actually accommodate an adult in the 3rd row.
Bull **** SUV culture at a premium price.
High end Mazda's really do good interiors. It's almost like they do it because they don't have a luxury division. Or maybe the others don't because they do...
Another interesting thing is how Honda is using GM for their EV rollouts. Both Honda and Acura are using the Blazer EV platform for their new SUV's. Crazy how far behind Honda and Toyota are when it comes to pure EV's.
Daughter has a 2005 Forester with over 250K miles. Still going strong. Luckily we found a wonderful mechanic who helps us keep it going.
Honda, Acura, and Toyota seem to always be a few years behind with technology. My 2021 Tacoma has a backup camera that has the definition of early 90's TV
Fellow Tacoma owner here, at least they got Apple CarPlay in to the the 2021 lol. I kind of get it with Tacomas, they are more Wrangler adjacent than Colorado/Canyon/Ranger adjacent imo.
Agreed. The issue is the target market is colorado/canyon/ranger customers, and when it comes to the creature features, typically they dont stack up. However for reliability, I would take a Tacoma hands down
I spoke to the treasure of my county this morning, I have known the man for 20 years, and he along with his asst. told me when I showed them the purchase agreement that it would be fine. He also told me to have them show in the paperwork that I had paid the tax in S. Carolina, even if they have to write it in with a pen. After a quick google, the sales tax in S. Carolina on vehicles is also 5%, not 6%, the same as it is in Iowa.
I was told by the treasure this morning that I would bring in the paperwork and I would only have to pay fees for the license and the title work, which would be around $50 total.
According to the treasurer how I paid made no difference except that if I was getting it financed, then I would have to bring in the loan papers so they could get that on the title and send it to them.
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Why stop at a minivan? Go 15 passenger van. Oh wait, we've never needed to have an adult sit in our 3rd row so it would be moronic to buy a minivan for that purpose.
Please report back once this has gone through, I've apparently been doing this wrong every time I buy out of state.
I will admit that I haven't had my third row up since I bought the vehicle. I have no use for the third row but in my case it didn't cost more. In my wife's Tesla and her old VW Tiguan, it was extra and we didn't pay to get the third row. I guess I don't see how it hurts anything.
We have done like you explained. The out of state dealership sent us a check for the taxes to turn in, but iirc the county we were registering the vehicle in mattered in that process.
In Illinois, Nebraska, and Minnesota, I paid zero taxes during the purchase process. I had to take in the title, sales receipt, and I paid taxes and registration in Polk county out of pocket. I would have preferred to do it all at once at the dealership but wasn't given that option. When we bought the Tesla, I actually paid a couple days before online.
I do think I may have bought a Mazda a long time ago at woodhouse in Omaha and they took care of everything. Maybe because they are on the border?
No problem, the last three vehicles that I purchased out of state were all in Missouri, and I paid no sales tax down there, and paid it when I registered the vehicle in Iowa. Maybe border states have some type of agreement in place to waive their local sales tax between the states. That is the only thing I can think of.
Hoping it all works out for you. I had a similar situation in the past. Ended up paying taxes twice and had quite the battle with the dealer to get them back, since they were never sent to my county. Push came to shove, and the county told me there was nothing they could do, that they were mistaken, and that I still needed to pay taxes to register it.
At the end of the day, SC tax rate doesnt really matter since youll register in iowa, but a google search of my own told me 6%. No idea which is correct lol
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I saw that also, it was from Car and Driver magazine, but every other source I looked on Google said it was 5%. So I am not sure what is going on there, but if I overpay a couple hundred more, than there is really nothing I can do about it.
