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Originally Posted by The_Blur
I actually ran these numbers for my wife when we got her a Sonic. We were trying to decide if she would keep her car long enough to get her money back out of a Volt or some other fuel economy-oriented GM vehicle. She doesn't drive nearly enough to benefit from the gas savings of the Volt, even if she kept it for over 150k miles. What's more frustrating is that a primary cost driver on new cars is the advanced engineering it takes to design something with today's fuel economy standards. Cars keep getting more expensive, and a large part of that is the cost of these new engines with 30+ mpg. I can only imagine what the LS3 would cost if GM didn't have to add all of the expensive emissions equipment necessary to fulfill legal requirements. I wish we could go back to fuel economy being a voluntary thing everyone uses to compete rather than a mandatory thing everybody does just to keep up.
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I think your family math is more the exception than the rule...Most folks never total the entire cost of automobile ownership anyways (gas, insurance, maintenance, mileage and depreciation, etc...)
It's probably more a "gut-feeling" and quick mental math month-to-month...lol...