Originally Posted by
FunFun
With this car - the savings in gas will pay for the car alone and I have a new car!
Yep, even with all the *****ing and whining about the high price of gas, few people fully understand that it is the single most expensive thing about owning/driving a car.
My small '01 4cyl P/U (bought new) has 400,000 KM's on the clock. At 33mpg (imp), 80 cents/L, that works out to about $27,000 in fuel through a car that cost $21,000 out the door. LOL!
EDIT: just for fun... those same 400,000 KM's going forward (in a Micra) at 45mpg (imp), $1.20/litre, will cost about $30,000 in fuel, through a car that cost $13,025 out the door.
Last edited by aftica; 05-19-2014 at 05:07 PM.
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View my fuel log 2015 Micra S manual: 5.3 L/100 km ... 53.2 mpg (Imp) ... 18.8 km/L ... 44.3 mpg (US) ...