Car to Salary Ratio's

paradigm · 5 Jul 2006 at 16:07

eidolon said:
Not unless he buys a new bike and car every year

IIRC he has had them both this year, and his post does say "to purchace" not "value".

mattpc · 5 Jul 2006 at 16:13

5% on the Xantia 15% on the Mazda

bam0 · 5 Jul 2006 at 16:18

AcidHell2 said:
0.022% of salary for my everyday car.

Somewhere between £5-£10?

andi · 5 Jul 2006 at 16:28

paradigm said:
So you have 5% with which to pay for food, fun, petrol, clothes, stuff, holidays etc etc etc?

Not neccesarily paid for out of his salary. Maybe he had savings, like me. I only paid £500 of my salary for my car, the rest was saved.

lukechad · 5 Jul 2006 at 16:31

andi said:
Not neccesarily paid for out of his salary. Maybe he had savings, like me. I only paid £500 of my salary for my car, the rest was saved.

Randell Floyd · 5 Jul 2006 at 16:40

90% of wage buying the car
20% on mods
5 % on insurance
10% fuel a year

Skiddley · 5 Jul 2006 at 16:52

New, about 1/3rd.

thebrasso · 5 Jul 2006 at 17:06

My car is worth about 40% of my annual salary at the moment, I bought it outright.

Edited: Its a 1998 Civic 1.8 VTI worth about £2.5k.

Rotty · 5 Jul 2006 at 17:13

about 40%

paul@ · 5 Jul 2006 at 17:17

Brand new 45k would be just over 50%
Second hand approx 10k 15%

Dr House · 5 Jul 2006 at 17:21

I think a lot more interesting thread would be what % of your pay after tax goes onto running your car

Glaucus · 5 Jul 2006 at 17:26

bam0 said:
Somewhere between £5-£10?

doh, me cant do maths.. 1.6% LOL

Will Gill · 5 Jul 2006 at 17:57

my car is worth 15% of my salary

danza · 5 Jul 2006 at 18:09

I win!

0%. It was a gift from my Grandparents to my wife and I when my Grandad had to stop driving due to the big C.

It's worth ~4% of my annual salary.

Dreadi · 5 Jul 2006 at 18:10

what i just piad for my civic is less the 2 weeks wages

Gamefreak501 · 5 Jul 2006 at 18:11

Because I earn such a piddly amount, my beloved car is worth about a 30% of my annual salary, that's the car, and the insurance put together though.

Car itself costed a month and half of my wage. Work done to it has easily used a month of my wages. My insurance is worth a little more than my monthly wage.

Hawk Tuah · 5 Jul 2006 at 18:14

I paid ~20% of my annual salary on my car. However since then my salary has gone up and my cars value has gone down a bit so now my car is worth about 10% of my salary. My bike is about 9%. My car and bike are about the same value.
I need more money

atpbx · 5 Jul 2006 at 18:22

My gross annual salary is 27,000, my KA is worth £900.

So its about 3.5%.

Bes · 5 Jul 2006 at 18:40

Mine's worth about 25% of my salary I reckon....

Pants · 5 Jul 2006 at 18:50

Car cost 5.9880239520958083832335329341317% of salary according to calculator.

It was a cheap VR6 my salary isn't that big!

Uses the rest of my salary on repairs / fuel / insurance etc... :rolleyes:

yes I just roll eyed my car....