Rob
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You know, for kids!
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Marina Pickup: Daily Use @ 25mpg A year: 1214.20 A Month: 101.18 A Mile: 24p Per day: £3.34 Not too bad,,, could get to work on the bus for less  |
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bstardchild
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 71
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I ammoyed people elsewhere by proving the cost per mile of my 7 litre Oldsmobile was lower that the cost per mile of their economy hatchbacks LOL. Thats the benefit of cheap classic insurance, free road tax and doing your own servicing... Doesn't it get up their bloody noses tho........ Sheesh!! |
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My daily primera 1.8 20,000 mile per year Daily Use @ 28mpg A year: 3112.54 A Month: 259.38 A Mile: 16p Per day: £8.55 Monza 3,000 mile per year Couple of days a week @ 22mpg A year: 753.12 A Month: 62.76 A Mile: 25p Per day: £7.24 Primera is about right. Difficult to say on the monza due to the fact I have no intention of selling and I will probably spend more on it than my daily. Petrols a killer, need to get a cheap diesel as my daily again. At the minute I fork out around £250+ per month on fuel and the wife around the same. £500 a month on petrol/diesel, I remember the days when I could make a fiver last a week  |
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put the bike in as don't have a retro atm
14k a year
2500 quid
says its costing 155 a month - how?? - don't think ive spent that on petrol yet in 6 months
costs 50 quid a year to service - it does 48 mpg will do 230 miles to a 22 litre tank and i work 2.5 miles from work?
if i go back a forwards only to work on it itll do 6 weeks on juice
13p a mile
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2001 HONDA CT110 (NOT RCV)
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Hirst
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This avatar is inaccurate, I've never shaved that closely
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The Charmant costs me £1000 a year and well over half of that is insurance. Hmm.
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B-8-D
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down to one car!!
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ha ha ha....
my old pontiac 4.7l v8 on gas I had it for about 2.5 years and did 10,000 miles a year in it....
results....
£3.62p a day!!!!
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13p a mile!!!!
who says running a v8 yank is expensive! ;D
si
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Last Edit: Mar 1, 2007 23:35:58 GMT by B-8-D
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bryn
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I ammoyed people elsewhere by proving the cost per mile of my 7 litre Oldsmobile was lower that the cost per mile of their economy hatchbacks LOL. Thats the benefit of cheap classic insurance, free road tax and doing your own servicing... Doesn't it get up their bloody noses tho........ Sheesh!! This has been my point many times over, yet even when presented with cold hard financial facts people still don't believe me. Even factoring in local garage costs it's often cheaper than there modern alternative... The thing that makes me smile is that I often do ten times more miles a year than they do. Mind you this means there's more retro fodder for us |
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Volvo, Buggy, Discovery and an old tractor.
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rx7:
per year: £2043.33
a month: £170.28
Per mile: 0.34
per day of use: £5.61
beach buggy:
per year: £1372.78
per month: £114.40
per mile: £0.46
per day of use: £26.40
damn.
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ive had the retro Vs modern argument with people i work with.
after a discussion last week it turns out that it costs me less to do the 50 mile round trip in my 2.3 W123 than it costs one of the girls in her 1.4 renault scenic people carrier thing.
there was much dummy spitting and i was accused of lying!
so i agree, it doesnt half get up their noses. ;D
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Did some sums, interesting stuff. Only marginally cheaper 'per mile' to run our Focus than the BMW over big mileages. BUT... There are other considerations.... Imagine if you ran your retro for 3 years / 36000 miles at the same level of neglect that you could 'get away with' on a newer car? What about if something unspeakable happens - replacing a V-reg Vectra is hella lot easier than trying to find another VW K70 And ayone else got a retro car that contains hugely expensive bits (relative to the cost of the car)? Oh how I look forward to the day when my BMW parps it's engine and I'm faced with a £3500 bill for replacement.... Horses for courses, I say. OK, so we are not slaves to depreciation... but we're still slaves |
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Depends what retro you run. Moggie Minor, Mini, Cortina, Capri you can get a replacement engine for chump change, or rebuild the one in it yourself for not a lot of dosh. If your retro is an old Jag or something then yup, fear those engine rattles, they could be expensive...
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Yea, with Alistairk on this one - all down to the complexity and availiability of your car.......Pretty much everything from panels to powertrains are still availiable for my car and there isn't anything I couldn't get 2nd hand, so no worries  Hell, even a goodish lump would be 50 to 150 quid so no fear there either Sure you could get a 2nd hand known engine for your BMW for less than that! |
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Shortcut
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I won't be there when you cross the road, so always use the Green Cross Code.
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The kicker on costs is the first field, purchase cost. OK so our Golf cost £13000 when we bought it 5 years ago but in real terms today that's long been written off. OK so it features in the overall cost to own but not in the real time day to day costs now.
Also with retros the fact that most are used infrequently pushes the daily cost up as the ratio of fixed costs (VED etc) to flexible costs (fuel) is altered.
Interesting though ZS just over £9 per day! The Golf weighs in at a massive £13 per day!!
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This space available to rent. Reach literally dozens of people. Cheap rates!
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as pointed out, its not all straight forward. But.... I got thinking yesterday, the save in depreciation, is related to the eco cost on the environment imo. so yeah chuggin about in v8's etc is not ideal in green eyes, but carrying on recycling regardless is. this is where appreciation is beneficial as its worth fixing  yey. in the same breath spending £500 fixing a £450 car seems a bit silly, or is it?  Appreciation wise i worry about replacement parts or full cars geting outta reach...   |
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 it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts  |
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Well, as I cycle to work, and only use it on Saturdays, my £800 Bimmer slaughters all your daily costs....
Your car is costing you:
A year: £ 2266.53
A month: £ 188.88
A mile: £ 0.32
Per day of use: £ 43.59
I didn't factor in the cost of the stereo in it either...... or the cost of shiny non essential bits.
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or the camper, which only comes out on high days and holidays and was financed by a £3000 loan is eyewatering. The figures are actually worse than this because average use is less than one day a week.
Feck me, it was bought to provide cheap holidays!
Your car is costing you:
A year: £ 3414.58
A month: £ 284.55
A mile: £ 1.14
Per day of use: 65.67
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Nathan
Club Retro Rides Member
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How much does your retro cost?Nathan
@bgtmidget7476
Club Retro Rides Member 1
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I am not working mine out as it only does 15Mpg and its used like twice a month.
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loon
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my car cost me less than it is worth so I'm winning already
i use it every day,
5 days to work,
car club on wednesday
saturday out n about
sunday rugby with the boys
total cost £16 so thats about £2.30 a day
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what the fcuk have you done lately
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yey.
