It’s Official: BMW Cars the Most Expensive to Run

[ktnez99]

I’m assuming as a daily run-around car because Ferraris, Aston Martins, etc. etc.

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/bmw-the-most-expensive-car-to-run-in-the-uk-102000944.html

 

[gookah]

most of it spent on cleaning products (it is mentioned...)

 

[Z Victor 1]

I suspect these figures would depend very much on the cohort surveyed. If this is based on 'New car' ownership I can imagine they would tend to be representative, but I suspect long term owners/secondhand buyers would have a different experience. Higher mileage and older cheaper cars need more parts replacing and repairs in my experience.Also BMW s hold their value better.

 

[Redline]

Personally both Audi and LR are more expensive. Maybe when something goes wrong then BMW are more expensive. Lots of factors hidden away though. The data needs to be normalised in some way, eg. As a factor of list price. That way you would see costs based upon initial outlay. You might see more expensive models costing more (or maybe less).
Other factors come into play against age too. Older cars are likely to get less spent on them.

The specific model probably has oddities in its ownership profile. Many company cars most doing frequent high mileages, some company cars as status and a fair few private status symbols doing few journeys.

The 292 journeys per year seems suspect. If you assume that the majority of trips involve an outbound journey and a return journey that equates to being used only every other day. For some cars that may be true, but, our dailies do at least 4 journeys per day. They might be idle whole days just once per month.

Think there’s lies, damned lies and statistics here. Not data I would trust in any way without some qualification.

 

[Grumps]

Personally both Audi and LR are more expensive. Maybe when something goes wrong then BMW are more expensive. Lots of factors hidden away though. The data needs to be normalised in some way, eg. As a factor of list price. That way you would see costs based upon initial outlay. You might see more expensive models costing more (or maybe less).
Other factors come into play against age too. Older cars are likely to get less spent on them.

The specific model probably has oddities in its ownership profile. Many company cars most doing frequent high mileages, some company cars as status and a fair few private status symbols doing few journeys.

The 292 journeys per year seems suspect. If you assume that the majority of trips involve an outbound journey and a return journey that equates to being used only every other day. For some cars that may be true, but, our dailies do at least 4 journeys per day. They might be idle whole days just once per month.

Think there’s lies, damned lies and statistics here. Not data I would trust in any way without some qualification.

Yep I agree with what he says!!!

 

[the Nefyn cat]

Think how much I'm saving by not cleaning my ones too often. And as for including parking tickets, surely they aren't based on the make of car?

 

[Dino D]

Think how much I'm saving by not cleaning my ones too often. And as for including parking tickets, surely they aren't based on the make of car?

BMW definitely attract more speeding fines - I’ve only ever got points in a BMW (the Z3 in fact!).

I’m sure parking wardens are similarly attracted to them...

Another interesting point and a bit OT is that the worst road rage I’ve experienced (when bloke gets out of car to come to window) was in a 3 series and 6 series...
When I was in the 3 it was a transit van man.
When I was in the 6 it was a 1 series driver (smaller BMW syndrome?)

Both cases were in London and both cases MAY or MAY not have involved hand gestures on my part bit we’ll leave that out of the statistical analysis..
Yep, it was the cars fault not me