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Pencil-Necked Finance Dweebs Suggest Anyone Making Six-Figures Should Only Buy a $15,000 Car

The Truth About Cars

In order to reach this out-of-touch conclusion, the killjoys at Investopedia start with an assumption that one should limit their transportation expenses to 10 percent of an annual salary, including insurance, fuel, maintenance, and the car payment itself. per month (about 10 cents per mile). Simple math leaves is with $330.50

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Flash Drive: 2023 Toyota BZ4X EV

Clean Fleet Report

Complimentary Maintenance Two years/25,000 miles. What will power the next generation 4Runner, Sequoia, Land Cruiser, Tacoma, Tundra, and Supra? Because of this we don’t address issues such as long-term reliability or total cost of ownership. Warranty and Pricing. Battery Eight years/100,000 miles. Powertrain Five years/60,000.

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The Quest for a DNA Data Drive

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Backward compatibility is often guaranteed for only a generation or two of the hardware used to read that media, which could be just a few years, requiring the active maintenance of aging hardware or ongoing data migration. Readable genomic DNA has been recovered after having been frozen in the tundra for 2 million years.

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