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- Joined
- Mar 14, 2005
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- Daventry
- Your Mercedes
- 2002 SL500, 216 CL500, all fully loaded
In this kind of quantative analysis you always need to factor in the costs of the alternative before getting to the real cost of ownership.
You have to have a way of getting from A to B,unless you're happy to remain housebound.
So cost out taxis, rail, bus, bike, shoe leather, I'd guess for most of us running a car would then look quite a bargain.
Indeed that is the case as one gets older, it often loosing that feeling of independence that stops one from getting rid of the car.
Yesterday we did a little food shop and there was this little very old guy standing at a bus stop, it was raining and blowing, when we were on our way home he was still there. we stopped and I asked the man where he was going and it was just 3 miles out of our way so we took him home and went on our way.