S A N S G A S

by "Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
Published 03/20/2017 at 10:44

Tags: Pretentious tesla owner
STARS: 10

More like: Sans CLASS.

Replies (35)

"fintail" (fintail)
03/20/2017 at 10:47, STARS: 2

Wow that’s like the vehicular and plate representation of PNW new money. Self-awareness and tact, we don’t need ya.

"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
03/20/2017 at 10:52, STARS: 4

I have yet to see a Tesla without a vanity plate. Not a single one out of probably 50 Model S and a dozen Model X (full disclosure: I didn ’ t always see the plates, but of the ones I did, they all said NOGAS or UBUYGAS or LOLGAS or some related pithy bullshit)

"Eric @ opposite-lock.com" (theyrerolling)
03/20/2017 at 10:53, STARS: 3

These people are why we cannot have nice things.

"Tripper" (tripe46)
03/20/2017 at 10:54, STARS: 1

I don’t like vanity plates in general but the ones on Tesla’s are terrible! I can only imagine these drivers as exact copies of each other.

"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
03/20/2017 at 10:57, STARS: 1

I’m still waiting on the comically ironic, yet oddly accurate ROLCOAL or DRTYSTH or NIMBY. I live where it’s 80%+ coal-produced electricity, with a small minority NatGas and Hydro.

"Eric @ opposite-lock.com" (theyrerolling)
03/20/2017 at 10:58, STARS: 3

They’re so common here in the PNW that I’ve seen tons with non-vanity plates. I should go take a picture of one (or ten) for you in the parking lot of my local Safeway...

"jimz" (jimz)
03/20/2017 at 10:59, STARS: 2

"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion)
03/20/2017 at 11:01, STARS: 3

Might have mentioned this before, but I knew someone with a Prius and vanity plate: NOFUELN.

Umm. You may want to reconsider that strategy. Or are you confused about how your car works?

"Tekamul" (tekamulburner)
03/20/2017 at 11:01, STARS: 0

I haven’t seen a VT Tesla with a vanity plate, but it’s comparatively costly in VT, I believe ($48 a year extra).

"Tripper" (tripe46)
03/20/2017 at 11:02, STARS: 0

You know when you have a thought, and someone shows you a matching picture. Well that just happened.

"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
03/20/2017 at 11:03, STARS: 0

Here in AL, there are no local showrooms, so it’s still in the “wealthy early adopter douchebag” phase — they’re all doctors and lawyers with a lot they want to show off to the world. The Model 3 will probably take them mainstream here.

"LongbowMkII" (longbowmkii)
03/20/2017 at 11:04, STARS: 1

All vice regional project managers I assume

"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
03/20/2017 at 11:04, STARS: 0

In AL, it’s about the same ($50 extra), but considering a Tesla owner would pay about $1,500 for his first year tag, it’s a drop in the bucket. We have ad valorem taxes on car tags, so the incentive is to drive something old and cheap (my 2001 Passat is the bottom rung, $31/year. WIN!)

"Azrek" (azrek)
03/20/2017 at 11:10, STARS: 1

Got one in my work parking lot with Skynet1

"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
03/20/2017 at 11:14, STARS: 1

Story checks out. I’d also love to see 7K LAPTP in reference to the battery array, just to totally geek out.

"Tekamul" (tekamulburner)
03/20/2017 at 11:19, STARS: 0

Is that above and beyond a sales and use tax? In VT we have a straight 6% sales and use tax on initial vehicle registrations.

"Eric @ opposite-lock.com" (theyrerolling)
03/20/2017 at 11:22, STARS: 0

You must have some kind of ongoing registration tax, though, right? In every state I’ve lived in, they tax you based on the value of your car for your registration.

"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
03/20/2017 at 11:23, STARS: 0

We have traditional sales tax at the initial sale, typically around 3.5% for cars and it ’ s usually collected at the dealership. But then with each year ’ s registration, you have to pay a percentage of the vehicle ’ s estimated value, which obviously declines over time. (the flipside of this taxation: Property taxes on an average $250k house are about $1,500/year). In a sense, we have a very consumption - based tax system, which also means 9% - 10% on groceries, which I vehemently oppose for its disparate impact on low - income people. I ’ m no hippie, but I expect that “ fair ” is a pretty easy thing to grasp.

"Tekamul" (tekamulburner)
03/20/2017 at 11:28, STARS: 0

No.

After you pay the tax (based on transaction price or NADA value, which ever is higher) and get your plates, it’s a flat rate ($76 currently, I believe) every year.

"interstate366, now In The Industry" (interstate366)
03/20/2017 at 11:29, STARS: 0

I can count on one hand the Model S’s i’ve seen with non-vanity plates, out of dozens total. Oddly, the one Model X I’ve seen had a normal one.

"Tekamul" (tekamulburner)
03/20/2017 at 11:30, STARS: 0

Taxing groceries? Down right barbaric.

Here we don’t tax groceries (but we do tax prepared food, including the ‘hot bar’ in a grocery store) or clothes that cost less than $100 per item. So cheap clothes aren’t taxed, designer stuff is.

"Eric @ opposite-lock.com" (theyrerolling)
03/20/2017 at 11:32, STARS: 0

It’s somehow graduated in most of WA, based on the car’s age. However, the major metro areas have added taxes, local taxes, and value-based taxes that can make it pretty ridiculous. I’m, luckily, still registered outside the high tax zone, but I keep hearing that people with my car are paying as much as $800 for registration and taxes this year around where I live.

"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
03/20/2017 at 11:35, STARS: 0

Believe it or not, most states tax groceries, but the majority of them do it at a reduced rate (like 3% - 5%). We give them the full monty. I had no idea anywhere waived taxes on clothing, even the cheap stuff. Seems reasonable. We have back - to - school tax holiday on clothes, but that ’ s usually just one weekend a year. And mostly it ’ s people exploiting the gesture to stock up on nice clothes and fancy computers (you know, because they ’ re academically necessary!)

"wiffleballtony" (wiffleballtony)
03/20/2017 at 11:36, STARS: 1

And yet the owner is probably full of hot air. And probably gas.

"wiffleballtony" (wiffleballtony)
03/20/2017 at 11:37, STARS: 1

They should say FLTBDTRK or WRRNTYWRK

"fintail" (fintail)
03/20/2017 at 11:43, STARS: 2

PNLGAPS

"RPM esq." (rpm3)
03/20/2017 at 11:51, STARS: 0

That...doesn’t seem very expensive.

"Tekamul" (tekamulburner)
03/20/2017 at 11:52, STARS: 0

Here in VT, we definitely don’t have anything that would qualify as a ‘metro’ area.

"RPM esq." (rpm3)
03/20/2017 at 11:53, STARS: 1

To be fair, in Washington over 70% of our power is hydroelectric, so that doesn’t really apply here...but I’d love to see one of those somewhere with more coal power.

"Tekamul" (tekamulburner)
03/20/2017 at 11:57, STARS: 1

Next door, NH is $40, NY is $30, and I remember VA being $10. It’s all relative.

"RPM esq." (rpm3)
03/20/2017 at 12:02, STARS: 0

True. Wow, does every car in Virginia have vanity plates? I sure would. I mean, I pay...more...in Washington to have them on one car, but I’d be buying them for my neighbors at $10.

"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
03/20/2017 at 13:07, STARS: 0

I just want to buy a Tesla and have a standard plate

"RPM esq." (rpm3)
03/20/2017 at 13:56, STARS: 0

By the way, in WA, vanity plates are something like $85 the first year and $42 to renew every year after that, on top of all the other stuff...I just calculated what my tabs would (or will if I don’t trade it in before the end of the month) be this year for my DD with vanity plates...$680. Yikes.

"Tazio, Count Fouroff" (tazio0625)
03/20/2017 at 15:58, STARS: 1

My SO went to school and then worked in VA for several years, until recently...now it makes sense why it seemed like every 2nd or 3rd VA car had vanity tags...sheesh

"Tazio, Count Fouroff" (tazio0625)
03/20/2017 at 16:07, STARS: 1

Word. Sans BRAINS too.

Here in GA they have a green fuels tag that every dang Tesla, Leaf, and Prius seems to rock. There’s always this urge to ask the owner, “So which alternative today — burning coal, burning natural gas, or uranium??”