The only buyers guide you need:

Snow Tires man. Snow tires.

Laserdisc? Fuck that. I want a BetaMax store. Drive the hipsters wild.

I’d rather be on the inside mid-turn than on the outside, like the guy at 0:02 in. you’re far more likely to be hit on the outside of a turn than on the inside.

You ever been hospitalized by a guy in spandex? Try this shit on me and you’ll learn first hand what it’s like.

What is this magical Ford concoction with rear-facing seats?!?

All that matters is that the puppy is safe.

If you need help racking up the miles, you can always loan it to me in LA. I’ll hit 20,000 in 53 weeks this weekend (and you can be damn sure that I’ll at minimum double that if you give me an Aston for a year).

Who wants to see a spreadsheet of Aston fuel and maintenance bills for a year?

http://www.speedhunters.com/2013/12/cooper…

Last I saw it dynoed at around 400whp. It’s sitting, languishing in a barn somewhere in scandanavia.

I am also (and have been since 2011 or 2012) a Sanders supporter. I do not believe that he’s woefully ignorant of automobiles, just like I hope he is not woefully ignorant with his stance on Nuclear electricity generation. He’s playing to the superduper green crowd that is woefully ignorant on both subjects. It annoys…

Do you mean to say “I’m sure not all cars are as expensive as that to run”?

And the only way that you’ll get a nicer/bigger car when you call Uber is if you request one of the nicer cars (Uber vs. Uber X vs. Uber Black vs. Uber Plus), so your example of a bunch of people needing a ride to the airport would probably go…

I’ll agree with Matt Farrah on the Villager being a good minivan for young people. I had one in college and it was fantastic for everything *but* the 220” average snowfall on campus (and even in saying that, I only got it stuck once on a warm day when the hard pack we parked on softened to the point that upon…

Right now my vehicle has a combined cost of$0.2765/mile over almost 18,000 miles (fuel and maintenance) (and I am about to do an oil change so that’ll change every so slightly). I am anal retentive about maintenance, so the instant something happens or a noise starts, I hunt down the culprit and fix it (new squeak…

That’s 30 cents per mile, which is insane.

The two most expensive daily drivers I’ve ever owned [from a maintenance standpoint] (2000 Impala that was a complete pile of shit and a 2001 BMW 525i Touring that has needed a lot of deferred maintenance) have cost me $0.102/mile and $0.11/mile respectively for maintenance.

Most annoying fix: Alternator on a 2001 Ford Escape. It is sandwiched between the block and the firewall, with the subframe and rear head blocking it from the top/bottom. Only way to swap it out is to drop out the engine.

Not on FleaBay, but you HAVE to have this SA RX-7

Hey, don’t mock us pasty motherfuckers. I don’t go outside without at least SPF75 on here in SoCal.

Thanks for the quick response Doug!

That is a very high cost of ownership (considering that you said there were considerable [and regular] repairs).

I know that my E39 Touring has cost me $0.28566/mile since purchasing it in late December 2014 (Gas and Maintenance), and I’ve put 16,469 miles on it in that time.

But I…

Could you share your total costs for:

Fuel
Repairs
Oil Changes

Along with total miles driven? I’m curious to see your per-mile cost.

Grumman LLV. I was a temp mail carrier for 2 summers in college.