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Cheapest cars to own and repair

AMCRambler

AMCRambler

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Found this article on MSN Money and thought it was pretty interesting. Those of you looking for an affordable car from both a price perspective and repairs and maintenance perspective might want to check this out.

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.co.../weston-the-cheapest-cars-to-own-and-fix.aspx

Interesting read. For those of you too lazy to click, here's the cliffs:

"* Least expensive coupe: Ford Focus. Most expensive: Mercedes-Benz SL Class.
* Least expensive hatchback/wagon: Ford Flex. Most expensive: Mercedes-Benz E-Class.
* Least expensive SUV: Saturn Saturn Vue/Vue Hybrid. Most expensive: Mercedes-Benz M-Class.
* Least expensive sedan: Pontiac G8. Most expensive: Mercedes-Benz S-Class. "

So unless you like paying out the ass don't buy a Mercedes. But I think most people already knew that.
 
I've put like 30K miles on my v8 CLK with absolutely no issues or out of pocket costs what so ever. It did eat tires like no other though 🙂

Moms c-class went from 100K to 145K with one $450 service item.

It's only expensive if you have to pay someone 150/hr to do your oil changes.

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Depreciation is the largest contributor to the true cost to own index, so it's only natural that the most expensive cars in the "class" will have the highest cost to own.
 
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Wow, the insurance numbers for the Mitsubishi Lancer and Scion tC on page 2 are insane. A lot of morons must buy those cars.
 
Interesting but I think edmunds true cost to own kind of sucks. It just doesn't have a big enough variance in vehicles. I don't know how they are populating its figures but I suspect reliability is far too little a consideration.

This article should forget crashes. I think 99.99991932049999 % of people couldn't give less of a sh*t about how much a particular car costs to fix crash damage.
 
ppatin said:
Wow, the insurance numbers for the Mitsubishi Lancer and Scion tC on page 2 are insane. A lot of morons must buy those cars.
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lulz. Of course. True story:

In gas station yesterday and guy about 22 comes in looks like a guido, leaves his scion tC running and starts talking to the attendent (obviously friends) about all the crap you can do to these cars (yes, factory upgrades) and the attendent talking about how he's thinking of getting a tC also. So the first guy looked like a moron and confirmed it talking about factory upgrades on what is basically a souped up corolla and the other guy works in a gas station and thus should not be spending his money on a tC so he confirmed moron status also.
 
Skoorb said:
lulz. Of course. True story:

In gas station yesterday and guy about 22 comes in looks like a guido, leaves his scion tC running and starts talking to the attendent (obviously friends) about all the crap you can do to these cars (yes, factory upgrades) and the attendent talking about how he's thinking of getting a tC also. So the first guy looked like a moron and confirmed it talking about factory upgrades on what is basically a souped up corolla and the other guy works in a gas station and thus should not be spending his money on a tC so he confirmed moron status also.
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You can make a Camry zing with "factory upgrades"...or so I've heard on this board. So I'm sure a Corolla could be turned into a real sleeper!
 
AMCRambler said:
Found this article on MSN Money and thought it was pretty interesting. Those of you looking for an affordable car from both a price perspective and repairs and maintenance perspective might want to check this out.

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.co.../weston-the-cheapest-cars-to-own-and-fix.aspx

Interesting read. For those of you too lazy to click, here's the cliffs:

"* Least expensive coupe: Ford Focus. Most expensive: Mercedes-Benz SL Class.
* Least expensive hatchback/wagon: Ford Flex. Most expensive: Mercedes-Benz E-Class.
* Least expensive SUV: Saturn Saturn Vue/Vue Hybrid. Most expensive: Mercedes-Benz M-Class.
* Least expensive sedan: Pontiac G8. Most expensive: Mercedes-Benz S-Class. "

So unless you like paying out the ass don't buy a Mercedes. But I think most people already knew that.
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This is obviously anecdotal but my Mom-In-Law had a 2002 Mercedes-Benz E320 that she just got rid of a month ago to buy a 2010 E350 and she had no trouble with it at all.
 
Skoorb said:
lulz. Of course. True story:

In gas station yesterday and guy about 22 comes in looks like a guido, leaves his scion tC running and starts talking to the attendent (obviously friends) about all the crap you can do to these cars (yes, factory upgrades) and the attendent talking about how he's thinking of getting a tC also. So the first guy looked like a moron and confirmed it talking about factory upgrades on what is basically a souped up corolla and the other guy works in a gas station and thus should not be spending his money on a tC so he confirmed moron status also.
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What's really funny is I could spank a tC in my 7 year old, 90,000 mile Nissan Maxima family sedan. 😉
 
BassBomb said:
Flex is a relatively new model so who knows how the body and electronics hold up
G8, what will happen since Pontiac is dead to the parts prices?
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Read the Edmunds long term test of their Flex, it has 60k miles with nothing but oil changes yet on fleet duty.
 
JulesMaximus said:
What's really funny is I could spank a tC in my 7 year old, 90,000 mile Nissan Maxima family sedan. 😉
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I could spank a tC in my Prius with a full load of passengers and keeping my throttle to the left side of the ECO bar so that the gas motor doesn't even kick in!
 
The cheapest car to own and repair is the one that's paid for and you drive it to the ground. Fuck that website.
 
Well, I guess I'm the only sexist on this board that immediately discredited the entire article as soon as I saw the picture of the woman at the top.
 
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