Math on having a second vehicle
I'm thinking about getting a little run around car instead of driving my Duramax as a DD. I drive about 200-250 miles a week and am looking as spending around $5000-$6000 on a little car. I would l...
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Cummins12V98 wrote:lanerd wrote:
Well, let's see. 250 x 52 = 13,000 miles @ say 15mpg =666 gals of fuel at say $3.75/gal = $3250.
A small car would get about 30mpg so 13000 miles would be =430 gals at $3.75/gal would cost about $1625.
So subtracting the two $3250 - $1625 = $1625 that you would save each year in fuel savings.
At these figures it would take you about 3.7 years to pay for itself in fuel savings.
Plug in your own actual figures for mpg, $/gal to get a better/worse cost savings.
Hope this was what you were looking for.
Ron
Don't forget additional insurance costs and depreciation! Also what rig would you want to be in with a head on collision?
Uh, I prefer not to be in a head on collision. But if I was going to be, I'd prefer to be in a race car with a full certified roll cage, 5 point racing harness/seat, full face helmet with integral HANS device and fire supression system. But that's not really practical, and neither is parking a long bed crew cab DRW in a downtown underground parking garage, unless you'd like to convert your truck to a fenderless, convertible model via reinforced concrete. :E
