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