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Old 02-07-2013, 07:07 PM   #9 (permalink)
pete c
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I was talking with a guy at work about whether or not it made sense to have a company car vice getting paid mileage which I believe is somewhere around 55 cents/mile currently. He says having the company car was better. I disagreed.

If you buy a TDI (about 25K) and put 30K a year which is quite possible, I believe you could make out quite well if you could get 5 years out of it, especially if you do your own maintenance. I would think that cpm would be 15 cents or under not including depreciation with leaves quite a bit to cover that.

You could do even better if you bought used.
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