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If op has a 5 year loan on a $40,000 car + taxes + insurance + repairs... that sounds about right.
I'd assume after the 5 years you still have the car, or at least sell it for something rather than scrap.
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I'd assume after the 5 years you still have the car, or at least sell it for something rather than scrap.
This is a great bit of insight that most don't get. I'll be making a total cost of ownership site soon to show how all of these details affect true cost of a car.
I'm basically trying to compare EVs, hybrids, and gas cars. It would be especially interesting to base data on historical TCO for various brands.
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I'd assume after the 5 years you still have the car, or at least sell it for something rather than scrap.
This is a great bit of insight that most don't get. I'll be making a total cost of ownership site soon to show how all of these details affect true cost of a car.
Result: I ended up not considering anything less than three years old, and am still the content owner of an off-lease diesel 2008 Ford Focus Turnier (station wagon), about to have a new timing belt put in. My cost per kilometer would have been lower had I been confident in my manual shift driving capabilities (at the time, no; now, yes) and had eschewed luxuries like leather seats and the larger engine.
Cost per km over the past seven years: 0.334 EUR Average cost per year (not considering that I've dropped my driving from over 20T to under 8T km/yr): 5826 EUR
But I've not looked at it from an inventory perspective; it does spend an awful lot of time sitting in our garage ever since I switched offices and now carpool with a colleague who loves driving his BMW and is delighted that I give him 10 EUR/wk for gas and peer-pressure him into leaving for work at 7am :)
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>I feel like my life is comparable to cloud hosting There are some philosophies that suggest this is no accident.
What are you talking about?