15th June 2006, 01:30 PM
I rest my case!
According to these figure new car with equivalent performance, comfort and specification to my own, on 20,000 miles a year, works out at around 40 pence per mile. Even if I could afford it I would not bother as with the money lost to depreciation after 3 years I could buy three or four used cars! Fuel consumption pales into insignificance once you take depreciation into account.
It is interesting that the biggest costs are what the AA calls 'standing charges', so the more miles you do the cheaper the cost per mile. Why anyone apart from farmers would buy a diesel is beyond me.[:o)]
(having a bit of a Jeremy Clarkson moment there }
)
According to these figure new car with equivalent performance, comfort and specification to my own, on 20,000 miles a year, works out at around 40 pence per mile. Even if I could afford it I would not bother as with the money lost to depreciation after 3 years I could buy three or four used cars! Fuel consumption pales into insignificance once you take depreciation into account.
It is interesting that the biggest costs are what the AA calls 'standing charges', so the more miles you do the cheaper the cost per mile. Why anyone apart from farmers would buy a diesel is beyond me.[:o)]
(having a bit of a Jeremy Clarkson moment there }
)