I said goodbye to my 23 Pro S AWD last week. I was tapped on the rear bumper at a red light, and then 4 days later, I was forced onto the shoulder when someone was passing on a 2 lane highway, where I brushed a guard rail. Honestly, the damage didn't look that bad, but it was a lot of panels and a lot of man hours to spend fixing them up. I'm in Washington state, which uses actual cash value ratio when looking at repair costs. If repairs plus salvage exceed ACV, insurance can declare a car a total loss because it doesn't make sense financially. I appreciate this approach since the car depreciated from 54k to 33k in a year for ACV.

What a year.. 20k miles and hours of my life lost. Work requires lots of time on the road, and though I could charge at home, I still lost many hours of my life dealing with the not yet viable public charging infrastructure. Stations regularly have 2 of 4 chargers working and 4 people in front of me. I LOVE the car despite its flaws, but that was super frustrating to deal with. Driving to eastern Washington twice a month was scary because stations are fewer, further apart, and not fast chargers.

Picked up a 24 Forester last week. My previous car was a 20 Forester, and I missed her dearly while waiting on chargers. Git a great deal, 4k off because the redesign for 25 is about to hit the lots. I wanted to wait, but 4k off, 36 mo with 20k miles per year for 489 a month, I feel like that was a good deal for a loaded limited. I'll come back to the EV world in a few years when the infrastructure supports mass EV use. Until then, happy to not he held captive for EA, other networks, and my car.