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£90 a month normal usage family car.
£20 a month second car.
£200 addition for UK holidays (x2).
I cycle to work when I’m not dropping the kids off at nursery (918 miles since March), have a car that does 45 mpg and we’ve stopped going on days out further than about 10 miles.
£1720 approx per annum total.
About £6000 (probably a bit more)
Wife works 50 miles away and we run a big second car.
I have absolutely no idea! It's a lot though. I know that much.
we’ve stopped going on days out further than about 10 miles.
Bloody 'ell Harry - our local curry house delivers further out than that 😉
1 4x4 and 1 ickle i10 - about £1800 a year.
I'd guess £1500-2000.
£5000-£6000 a year
It used to be nowt as I was "borrowing" it from the lorries at work, then after the fun stopped I was spending around £1500 a year. Now I have changed shifts and start a reasonable time I don't use the car at all for work so the bill has dropped to around £800 pounds for the year, most of that is burnt during the summer time for camping and holidays.
£1558.48, average mpg is 36.4 which is pretty good going considering the amount of congestion on the 127.
1 family car, over the last 12 months I've used £1350 unleaded
Would be nearer £2000 if I hadn't cycle commuted from March - October.
I would love to get rid of the car but my wife wouldn't be impressed, what with 2 kids & many friends & family all unreachable by pubic transport
About £4500 - £5000 @ around 32MPG
Since we moved to darkest Lancs earlier this year, a whole lot more. A quick guestimate is somewhere around £4,500 p.a.
We own one car. A very thirsty one, it seems.
I shall be back on the bike tomorrow (50 miles round trip - gulp), and Mrs North can bloody well get the train.
my cars do around 10000 miles a year total, so probably about £1400. will soon rise to £2000 with a change of car to something nicer (however milage will probably drop as I'll no longer be the guy who drives for surf/bike trips).
GF's car does about 6000 miles a year, all around town. Probably £1200.
i earn more than average, but drive less, so I'm all for more tax on fuel.
Oh, I can answer this one pretty accuratly!
Car (1.6 Focus estate, petrol) £2935.42 at 40.76mpg average for the year
Motorbike (Ducati ST3s, owned since 6th August) £393.64 at 45.51mpg
Scooter (Vespa GT200) £199.83 at 72.32mpg
That's all petrol, but a lot of the carmilage (nearly 10k now) has been paid for by work at 45p/mile, so I'm actually in profit, all things considered.... 🙂
I reckon my car is about £1500 to £2000 a year but then I ride to work more than I drive.
My wife's is probably a bit more, mainly because most of her driving is around town and her car isn't as economical as mine although she does drive like a right old lady.
£5000 ish.
but then I'm earning at least double what I could locally so overall a win...
i earn more than average, but drive less, so I'm all for more tax on fuel
Let them all eat cake?
One fairly thirsty petrol car around 10,000 miles a year around £1900 on petrol
😉Let them all eat cake?
Well put. I was going to type a response that would have got me a life time ban and, if I'd followed it up, a 12 year jail term.
About £5000 per annum - 2 cars, one of which is economical but does 20k per annum, the other of which is far less economical but does 3 European trips per year, so still clocks up 10k
Some bod this morning was saying the average spend on fuel was £1700.
I can't remember what mine is but I'd guess around £200ish
Well put. I was going to type a response that would have got me a life time ban and, if I'd followed it up, a 12 year jail term.
meh. tax has got to come from somewhere, I'd rather it didn't come from me. don't see the problem?
Put £90 in 2 months ago. Still have half a tank. So that's ~£270 a year at the moment?
meh. tax has got to come from somewhere, I'd rather it didn't come from me. don't see the problem?
Fair point 😉
I have the exact figures at home, but do about 32k miles/year and average 55mpg or so. It's a bit more now as I am driving a lot slower, but I haven't really been doing that long enough to get a decent figure.
Anyhoo......32k miles at 55mpg, assuming about £1.36 average price/litre over the last year = £3592 on fuel. GULP! And that's just me, not the other half although she does much less mileage than I do.
Have to also add in the extra cost of servicing, tyres, insurance of higher mileage and it really is quite ridiculous!
Currently trying to get into 'find a new job' mode. Even if I have to take a wage hit to get nearer to home. The thought of a 10 mile cycle to work fills me with joyful thoughts. Just need to crack on & find something.
Somewhere under £1000 a year for me, a bit over that for wifey. We make up for it in road tax and insurance as we have two cars, a van and a motorbike between us.
£1916.77 for the last year for 10824 miles in a 2.0l subaru impreza sport
meh. tax has got to come from somewhere, I'd rather it didn't come from me. don't see the problem?
Tell that to the Greeks!
Looks like about £4k for me with a total annual mileage of about 30k. Miles split between the car I use for work at 55-60mpg and the van/camper at about 30mpg. I get mileage costs for all my work driving though so get about 6-7k per year from that so overall I'm comfortably up.
£3700 (assuming I stay put on Teesside untill next June)
~40mpg from a 1.6 petrol Focus C-max doinf 24k/year. Thankfully most of that is paid for by work.
About £600-£1000 for 2 vehicles (a Van and a Family car). QUite pleased with that. Don't think I'll get my wife cycling to work which would knock another several hundred off...
£1000 / year on average, I'd say.
Around 8 grand on one vehicle
[i]I can't remember what mine is but I'd guess around £200ish [/i]
Eh, probably find it cheaper to use taxi's then have a car around for so little mileage.
For us, about £5000.
£1700 - Motorbike (commute)
£1000 - Car
£2300 - Wife's car (commute and normal)
before scooter:
My car = £1800
Wifes Car = £1700
after scooter:
My car = £650
Wifes car = £1700
Scooter = £320
about £3000 in my civic. 23-30 MPG.
Jebus some of you do a lot of miles - are you really doing 32k a year on personal?
Average mileage for a car is c12k isn't it? At 40mpg that's about £1900 at current fuel prices of £1.40 and £1400 at £1.20.
A Zone 1-6 travelcard for 'that London' will cost £2,176 in 2012 for one person. Just saying.
At a rough guess £1200 for the year but probably a bit more.
At a rough guess, about £1200. We seem to put in about £50 of petrol (1.8 volvo v50) every two weeks or so. Consumption's dropped dramatically in the last four months as I've started a new job where I commute by train or bike, haven't driven to work at all. Train commuting is going to be about £550 pa depending how often I cycle, and I think (hope) petrol usage might go down from the above
Probably about £200 😆
~£1800 a year.
Very little is commuting (as that's done by bike) so it's pretty much all going to/from races, visiting family, the weekly shop and random other leisure activities.
Car averages out at around 40mpg
Mine's pretty harsh about £70 a week. So around £3,500 which I can't claim for. I'm seriously considering buying a noddy car that does better mileage however I'm stuggling to balance my need for a decent sized family car against the fact that 95% of my usage is a motorway commute twice a day. Any recommendation for a little car that does 60+MPG?
We've done 6,076 miles over the last 12 months at an average of 53mpg and used 520 litres of diesel. Admittedly 2,000 miles of that was on the continent but based on an average of, say £1.35 a litre of the year that'd be: £702.00
Not as bad as I'd thought actually.
But then I cycle to work (or train/Tube and cycle), don't do a "big weekly shop", and sometimes go 2 or 3 weeks without even looking at the car, and herself cycles to work (or trains it) - but then she's in the US for work at the moment so her carbon footprint is massive.
it's rarely economical to buy a new car just to reduce fuel consumption. With that said, any of the 'eco' models - volvo v50 drive will do <100co2, combined fuel economy of 72.4mpg
I dont drive so my costs have been £0.
The wife covers loads of miles and were spending at least £100 a week in Diesel so I'll be conservative and say £5200
Between £5k and £6k without breaking into a sweat.
Weekly mileage for cycling and work is about 400miles, every other week I also do a trip to Hereford so 250 bonus miles, couple of trips to Scottie, Wales and somewhere else all helps. And then there is probably 2,000 business miles too.
So no I don't end up in profit. Fuel economy is a bit over 40mpg in a 150,000 mile BMW 320d,which is proving to be a cheap car to run.
No idea. Am I really missing out on something if I don't spend my time working it out?