Parkers - cost of motoring comparison tool

[bledd]

http://car-costs.parkers.co.uk

Calculates your fuel/tax costs and you can quickly compare many cars on one screen.

Servicing costs aren't included on there, but it seems like a handy site

 

[[TW]Fox]

Completely useless for used cars as it assumes..

Service and Repair £0.00

Great, thats one of the most fundamental considerations when choosing a used car, or we'd all drive a CL600.

 

[paradigm]

Completely useless for used cars as it assumes..

Over a 3 year period it states that for my used A6, the Service and Repair would be £9,005.10

However, insurance would be £0.

 

[ash_scotland88]

Also it's listing a Golf I am interested in as GT TDI, when it's a 1.8T GTI.
DVLA website also confirms the golf as being of petrol fuelage.

 

[Crizzy]

Parkers, spot on as usual!

 

[paradigm]

Lol, you can't put a higher mileage than 130,000.

EDIT: I've just run the exact same car and specifics a 2nd time, and the values have changed

Now states £8,419.45 for Servicing and Repair, but this time added £5000 of "fixed costs".

 

[Maccy]

It says it'll cost me £423.03 per month for the Clio for the next 2 years. Yeh right...

 

[Griffo]

Hah this is brilliant! My poor 100k vRS is going to cost me another 16 grand in the next 3 years :'(.

 

[MikeHunt79]

Handy site that, I guess you could do it yourself with a spreadsheet but it's handy having it taking the reg number in order to find the tax and mpg

EDIT:

[/IMG]
Anyone know why is a 1999 MX5 cheaper to tax than a 2005 1 litre micra ?

Or is 'fixed costs' depreciation?

 

[NathWraith]

fixed costs is depreciation iirc

 

[rodenal]

Some quite hilarious results from that tool - tries to take into account interest costs (what if the car was bought) and lets you adjust deposit amounts etc without telling what it's assumed the cost of the car was in the first place, has some very, very random "servicing" costs in there too. I stuck the civic and equivalent golf diesel in and whilst it comes out with what I would say is probably the correct order of running costs overall, the details dont stack up

 

[MikeHunt79]

fixed costs is depreciation iirc

That makes sense, I put the number plate in of a 20 year old car and fixed costs went down to £20 a year

 

[bledd]

I only tried it with cars that are 10-20 years old

As I said in the OP, handy for tax/fuel costs

 

[Uriel]

Anyone know why is a 1999 MX5 cheaper to tax than a 2005 1 litre micra ?

Could be that tax was done on engine size until March 2001 and CO2 afterwards.