How much does your car cost you overall?

Soldato
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pretty easy to just keep the receipts, always buy petrol in multiples of 5 litres say, and top car up completely a few times a year, to make the mpg/mp£ calculation.
 
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Saab 9-5 Aero Estate

Owned for 9 years and 62000 miles

Depreciation £3500 (assume that it is now worth nothing)
Fuel £12500
Insurance £3000
Tax £2500
Servicing/MOTs £4000
Tyres £1500

Cost per mile: £0.44
 
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This is really a terrible thread. Do you not know the rules of man maths FFS!!!!!

:(

+1

Although with such artificially high 2nd hand car prices, it is a good time to impress the Mrs with how buying some expensive gas guzzling man machine was a shrewd move.. just don’t repeat this if/when 2nd hand prices fall back in line

Our X3 cost us £0.37p / mile all in over 2 years , 25k miles, mainly due to spectacularly excellent depreciation in the current climate.

Swapping that to an ID.3 worse case projected costs (although I will assume the 5p/kWh for fuel) going by the GFV only is 38p/mile on a new car. If depreciation held at today’s craziness, it would be around 14p/mile based on 48k miles.
 
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Jez

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:( 0.03/mi, amazing given that it is also a lovely car.

I have little track on what i spend on motoring these days. ~38MPG ave according to the OBC showing around 10k miles covered (reset when purchased) which is what, ~16.5ppm using the cheapest diesel.
 
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Mustang is at 63pence a mile. ($.87)

If I were to sell it today I'd actually make more than I paid for it (minus trade in of 10k so it's still costing me).

Used cars are insanely high here right now.
 
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