Strangeness on the road

Now, that's a perfectly plausible explanation right there... It could be the owner of the pizza place.

 

Yeah-the owner-plausible

But,Would a pizza delivery place owner-with those narrow margins-put that kind of money in a vehicle like that?
Do you guys in Minn use salt on the roads??
I just can't picture putting $60,000 into fancy sheetmetal in a snowy-salty-place.
But-yeah-expensive vehicles sell in salt road places-so maybe
The owner-yeah-makes sense
$1200/mo car for pizza delivery-probably owner.
Charlie

 

We salt the roads in in MA and there are a ton of $60,000+ vehicles around here. We get a lot of rain/snow/sleet storms which in my experience are worse for traction than a straight up crisp winter snow dump.

Modern vehicles seem to last forever regardless. I had one rust spot on my '97 Civic after 14 years, but only because and ex-GF cut a corner and scraped the fender on a parked plow-blade. The repair was not done correctly.

 

Plenty of salt on the roads here.

Some people have a more expensive vehicle for non-winter duty and a "beater" for winter driving.

 

CRT1
Yeah-good points.
My 98 Suburban has had a driver's side leak for at least 5 years.
Water literally pools-and sits in the little "canal" on the edge of the door
and it sits in the wet padding carpet
-ZERO rust!!all that water-zero rust-but paint is intact of course
The paints are sooo good now that if they are intact-these vehicles
don't rust!

On the other hand-I bought a 2001 Prizm(corolla clone) in 2003-it came from a dealer in New Jersey with just 3 years and 12000 miles of lease service.
EVERY EVERY metal surface-nuts bolts studs-that wasn't painted -had grungy rust or grungy white ALUMINUM rust on it
EVERY FREAKIN' ONE.
Painted surfaces-including underside-were perfect!!(except deep scratches)
Anything anodized plated was rusty-engine bay was UGLY!
Didn't hurt function-but looked bad.
The "salt" is something!!
Charlie