Original cost: $17,000.00 give or take a few. (used-26000 miles- summer 2001)
Maintenance: $8000.00 an educated guess – includes three sets of tires, numerous tune-ups, scheduled maintenance, and a couple of Big Fixes.
Gas: $15,500.00 a ballpark figure based on some back calculations from miles driven, gas mileage, and price of gas.
License fees: $675.00
Insurance: $3600.00 approximately.
Total: $44,775.00
Days owned: 3010
Cost per day: $14.87 per day.
Miles driven: 177,000 or .26 cents a mile
The moral of this story is that even normal, boring, frugal vehicles are expensive. Either walk and save a lot of money, or buy an awesome vehicle so you can really enjoy blowing all your money on transportation.
1 comment:
Trying to talk yourself into the expensive vehicle you don't really need again sis? But on the other hand might as well spend the money before the Gov't takes it anyway. ;)
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