I need a quick reminder that I can’t afford to run this please.

My boss has a DB7 in his collection, he said the servicing can be anything between 2-4k :eek:
I wouldnt want to fork out that much a year just for servicing, Aston Martin or no Aston Martin!
 
willd58 said:
Would you really though, especially at 21. I mean, your average Aston Martin owner is guna be 35+ (at a guess), id feel pretty damn chuffed being in the same marque as them at such an early age tbh, I know I do as a student driving what to most is probably a complete girls car.
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I don't think I was being sarcastic enough lol :p

believe me I would do horrible dirty things to own that car, things that would get your hands chopped of in the middle east. :o
 
Gilly said:
Agreed :)



He has a Kangoo too!
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hehe, miss you xxxx

but back to the aston, the db9 i had for a couple of weeks broke down 4 times in the first 2 days and it had 9000 miles on the clock, yeah warranty rocks socks but if i had that kind of money i'd buy something reliable rather than driving round in a focus courtesy car while my "super" car got fixed
 
volospian said:
Well.... how about asking the relevant people, like your insurance company, the dealers who will service the vehicle, checking your local fuel prices and comparing the relevant MPG, browsing a few parts sites and asking the tax man, etc.?
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Hold on . . wouldn't that be applicable to every person who posts on here for advice?

Fair enough, not many people on here would know much, he would be far better off searching on other forums.

Don't understand why everyone is being so hostile? Everyone here has something they like to brag a little about, be it watches/gadgets/white mac goodies/pc stuff/photography kit/other stuff. I don't see why people are thrashing his thread.

If you haven't got anything fruitful to add, just hit the back button?

Do your research, if you can afford it, go for it! They're very sexual :)
 
gurdas said:
Exactly, so that concludes that if you ask how much a car costs to run, it doesn't necessarily mean you cannot afford it......your initial statement is thus bs.
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You obviously do not understand english. You seem to be confusing my statement with the old adage "if you have to ask, then you cannot afford it"

I never said you couldn't ask how much it costs to run a vehicle, I said if you are wondering if you can afford to run a vehicle then you're not rich enough to buy it.

If you are going to buy a car without knowing how much it will cost you, then you need to be rich enough to cover all eventualities. The word "rich" is relative. Somebody on £45k a year will be "rich" compared to someone on the minimum wage. For example, I could easily afford to run a mondeo, whatever the costs, and could therefore go and buy one today without caring. I wouldn't need to "wonder" if I could afford it. I am, to all intents and purposes, rich enough to buy one.

If I was thinking of buying an Aston, however, then I would need to know the running costs before buying one. I'm not rich enough to go out and buy one without calculating the costs and being sure that my income would cover the expenditure. If I looked at the costs and was still not sure that it all added up, then, in reality, I'm still not rich enough to afford it.

Ergo if I was "wondering" if I could afford a certain vehicle, then I'm not rich enough to buy it. I could only afford it if I "knew" damn well that I could afford it.

So, to re-iterate my point, only rich people can afford to buy something without finding out if they can afford it first. If you have to pause for thought, then you're not really rich enough to buy without doing the sums.

You might be able to afford it, and I never said you couldn't ask, but you can't afford to buy it without knowing that you can afford it.
 
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volospian said:
load of bs
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Sorry mate just keep digging, your argument is ridiculous. You could 'wonder' all you want, it's perfectly acceptable and by no means concludes that you aren't 'rich' enough. 'Wondering' could simply be a starting point, at which you will do further research to find out if you can or can't afford it.

eg. 430 and Gallardo cost the same price, i'm guessing one is more expensive to service than the other, for arguments sake lets say the Ferrari. Person X knows he can buy either car (but what he doesn't know is that he can't really afford to run the Ferrari but he can with the Gallardo). So if Person X is 'wondering' whether he can afford either car in the long term (he needs to do more research), does NOT mean he is not rich enough.

Being 'rich enough' does not mean 'oh I have so much money I don't need to even ask how much it costs', it means, he can afford to buy and run the Gallardo, he IS rich enough, whether he has £10,000 left in the bank account or £1,000,000.
 
Hi we cannot afford cars you are looking at and have to settle with our BMW repmobiles. So our little "select" group of "individuals" on this forum will gang up on you and belittle you instead.

All above said in jest of course !
 
If you actually have the capital to buy the car, is there really much else involved? Sure servicing might be a few hundred, maybe a thousand every year, tyres a couple of hundred a corner, insurance maybe a thousand a year, tax a few hundred, if you're earning say 60k a year, with a little financial common sense, and a bit of money saved up to buy it, and a car is quite high on your list of "priorities", buying and running an Aston isn't terribly unrealistic is it? o

Unless I've missed something... :p
 
howardcanning said:
If you actually have the capital to buy the car, is there really much else involved? Sure servicing might be a few hundred, maybe a thousand every year, tyres a couple of hundred a corner, insurance maybe a thousand a year, tax a few hundred, if you're earning say 60k a year, with a little financial common sense, and a bit of money saved up to buy it, and a car is quite high on your list of "priorities", buying and running an Aston isn't terribly unrealistic is it? o

Unless I've missed something... :p
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The servicing I think you under estimate, pads/discs aren't cheap, a simple oil top up and filter change can be £400. If you are doing a lot of miles, these costs can rack up, but of course if you are only servicing it once a year then its a different story.
 
rayb74 said:
Hi we cannot afford cars you are looking at and have to settle with our BMW repmobiles. So our little "select" group of "individuals" on this forum will gang up on you and belittle you instead.

All above said in jest of course !
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But much truth is said in jest, right?

housemaster has a GT3, Will Gill has/had an Aston Martin, I don't see them glorifying how loaded they are as much as the OP, and I think a lot of people would be curious as to how he can spend so much at his age, doesn't mean there is jealousy/envy/ignorance involved.

All it'd take is a reply from PARAS ! :p

Edit: and has already been said, I wouldn't personally ask a question like this on this forum, because yes it does seem like thinly veiled showing off - I'd just go the whole hog and say blatantly how rich I am \o/
 
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Ask yourself, does my head look big in this?
 
I buy these sort of cars on occasion and I also contribute to a few forums that are populated by guys with 'some' money and I can say without hesitation that I have never seen a post along the lines of "can I afford to run this". At the same time however they all think about it and take it into account as no one, even those with 'some' money like to throw it away if they can avoid it. If you earn 7 figures (I wish) you still don't like servicing bills of £15K to £20K which supercars can attract, even if you can easily afford it, and the pain of handing over such a sum for a major bit of work will still hurt.

You will not see me discussing anything detailed about my job, my house, my money, my earnings, my personal life or anything of a personal nature on a public forum such as this. I am happy to talk about cars (you might have noticed), those I have owned, those I have driven, those I might own and those I know who drive them, but nothing more even when people ask you will see me deflect or ignore it. For the same reason I don't have a Facebook or other such page as the interweb can really be a little too invasive and I would urge ANYONE posting such information to be careful, its never good to be that open on a public forum in my book.

Right, can someone point in the direction of the "look at my watch", "look at my house", "look at my wage packet" and "look at the size of my winky" threads please, I need to make a deposit. ;)
 
Hmmm, I have to be honest and agree with gurdas. I have no idea how much it would it cost to service ANY car right now, but I reckon I certainly could afford it. Just because I don't know the current rate and if I then subsequently posted on here asking, wouldn't necessarily mean I was unable to meet the costs...

We all have to start somewhere, right? Much like my brother in law when he bought his S5. He had no idea of the running costs, so asked someone. In this instance, he was shocked how easily he could afford it. So, by everyones reckoning, naturally, by asking he shouldn't have been able to afford it.
 
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