You could probably manage to run a car for a bit less than £1000 a year if you were careful (or a lot less if you didn't mind an unreliable crock).
An important observation is that public transport in the UK is shockingly expensive. Especially if you sometimes take a passenger or two along for the ride, it's cheaper to go by car even in the cases where you could have gone by train or bus.
Once one has made the large initial outlay for a car, the savings steadily mount up if you use it whenever practical and economical to do so; to break even, you only need to save an average of £3 a day!
Think of a car as a really flexible season ticket you can use for groups of up to five people travelling together. (-8
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Date: 2004-04-16 07:07 am (UTC)An important observation is that public transport in the UK is shockingly expensive. Especially if you sometimes take a passenger or two along for the ride, it's cheaper to go by car even in the cases where you could have gone by train or bus.
Once one has made the large initial outlay for a car, the savings steadily mount up if you use it whenever practical and economical to do so; to break even, you only need to save an average of £3 a day!
Think of a car as a really flexible season ticket you can use for groups of up to five people travelling together. (-8