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Toshi

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booked mah Japan tix, ultimately not doing any Chase->Virgin->ANA booking fuckery because the Asiana flight via Seoul was very oddly cheap.

June 7 COS-DEN-NRT on United, because substantially cheaper than flying right out of Denver. will probably take a Lyft down south and stay at a super close hotel with shuttle the night before?
June 25 NRT-ICN-SEA on Asiana in business class because overnight flight and all. 2.5 hour layover at Incheon.
(stay at MIL's place)
June 29 SEA-DEN on Alaska

redeemed some United miles towards the United cost directly, paid the Asiana ticket price in part with Chase points.

$6,770.48 out of pocket ultimately + 77.5k miles and 306k? or so points, for the 5 of us altogether. $1,354.10 per person, and that's including the business class leg.

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Toshi

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Vanity plate ideas (need at least 2 proposals and max 6 for Colorado’s form) for our Cabana Blue/White two tone ID.Buzz:

BUZBUZZ
BLUEBUS
BUZZBUS
BLUBUZZ
BUZZY
RAD-BUS or RADBUS
 

Toshi

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I realized I didn't post my skiing photo here from Thursday. (shall be none from tomorrow as kids, tired from being in Seattle, vetoed it.)

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https://www.threads.net/@toshi.clark/post/DEVkdMFy0YO

vid there, which was basically all the footage I got before my GoPro crapped out in the cold. I'd forgotten its usual external battery pack and it did not like that apparently

also note use of 69% SOC to get from home to Mary Jane to Thai Pot Cafe: 46% while going up, 23% while mostly coasting down. then an extra 5% was burned putzing around town to the library and post office, ultimately to home. so started at 100%, got back to garage at 26%, against a nominal 228 mile EPA range.

the AWD ID.Buzz that should be here next week (?) has a nominal 231 mile EPA range, as an additional datum.
 

Toshi

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thoughts for this long down the road (7 years maybe? depends on the pace of my debt-payment project) Land Cruiser replacement:

- our PacHy is really the benchmark for interior volume for comfortably-garage-sized vehicles. it has 32.3 cu ft behind the 3rd row, 87.5 cu ft behind the second row with the 3rd row stowed into the floor as it so cleverly does, and 140.5 (!) cu ft with the second row pulled and the third row stowed. (2nd row must be pulled in the hybrid as the battery lives where the gas one's seats fold into the floor a la the 3rd row).

- I don't want anything smaller inside than my Land Cruiser, which would rule out newer Land Cruisers actually! anyway, my 100 has 20.8 cu ft behind the third row, 59.7 cu ft behind the second row (unclear if third row seats folded up or removed for this), and 90.8 cu ft behind the front seats with the second row either tumbled or just folded.

- AWD, BEV are musts as well, and I'll hold out for at least 300 miles of range. I also would quite like ventilated seats. :)
Note that I clearly didn't wait this long. But also I sold the Land Cruiser because of the super cheap Busy Forks lease and ended up using this to replace the minivan instead… Got the AWD, BEV bits covered. Range fell short: ID.Buzz will be 231 miles EPA. But as I've shown with my 228 EPA mile Busy Forks that's enough for Winter Park daytrips even at winter temps, in winter conditions, on winter tires.


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given the above as context, the Kia EV9 has 20.2 cu ft behind the third row, 43.5 cu ft behind the second (finding this was tough! everyone parroted just the figures flanking this; only the Wards Auto article above had it afaik), and 81.7 cu ft behind the first row.

so it's significantly smaller than my Land Cruiser despite having 7" of length on it, and worlds smaller than the minivan (noting that the minivan has more cargo volume behind the 2nd row than the EV9 does behind the first with all back seats folded in!)
HUGE news for fans of the ID.Buzz! I, like everyone else, was going off of European measurements for cargo volume… and 2,469 liters as listed for the LWB is a paltry 87 cubic feet.

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But in Europe they measure cargo volume _to the top of the seatbacks_. Here in 'Merica we measure to the roof. And by this metric the ID.Buzz has 145.5 cubic feet behind the 1st row, 75.5 behind the 2nd, and 18.6 behind the 3rd

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Context:

Kia EV9: 81.7, 43.5, 20.2
my old Land Cruiser: 90.8, 59.7, 20.8
PacHy: 140.5, 87.5, 32.3

So the minivan still beats the pants off all competitors behind the 3rd row, because of the depth of the stow-'n-go well. But the ID.Buzz is right where it should be for the other cargo area metrics, and should work well for my ski day adventures with one 3rd row seat folded if not pulled out entirely.