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Originally Posted by cowmeat
Wow, that's a little over 37 cents a mile TCO for a pretty long distance!
That happens to be almost exactly the same as my TCO per mile on Ron Burgundy, but I've only owned it seven months, lol!
For a true TCO you have to add in your oil changes, insurance costs, toys, and some other things I'm sure I'm forgetting. TCO is an eye-opener and most people can't handle seeing the true cost per mile, especially if they're paying on a car.
My current Insight Ron Burgundy cost 4500 bucks cash minus the 2500 bucks I sold Turtle for.
So 2,000 bucks plus 300 bucks to tag it up, a little over 400 bucks for gas, 420 for insurance (about 60 bucks a month for 7 months), 300 bucks for toys and two oil changes = 3,420 divided by the 9,115 miles I've driven it equals a little over 37 cents a mile TCO.
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Your cost per mile is high now, but would drop like a stone if you did 40k per year. Also, got to figure in the cost of prozac and therapy I will need after adding up the numbers ha, ha,, ha. To me the perfect vehicle costs as little as possible per mile and gets me from point A to B.
In absolute numbers my 40 year old honda cb750 gets up to 50 mpg and I can fix everything, So for around $2k with just routine maintenance it cost just pennies per mile.
That is why my ideal perfect vehicle would be fwd, fully enclosed reverse trike like the eliomotors's one. Also my insurance would drop from $900 per year to $80 bucks. My payback would just be a few years.
Is anyone on this forum ordering an elio or working on to build a fwd, fully enclosed reverse trike?