I was thinking about these earlier. I really like them. There's just enough power to let you drive like you really want to, and they are pretty economical. So economical, in fact, that it gave me a horrible idea...
I, for the first time in my life, calculated how much I spend on fuel every year. I'd always ignored it, and simply paid my bills at the end of the month, deliberately skipping over any fuel points in the list. I never even look at the price of fuel. Why bother? It's never a pretty sight, and I'm going to buy it anyway.
Well, when I came up with a figure of $5,000... :rofl: atriot:
That's so bad that it's fucking funny. While we are at it, let's consider (not calculate) the maintenance costs I fire into that DII. You guys know where I'm going here. You know I'm pretty obsessive about maintenance. It's probably around, to quote Penn Gillette, one mother-fucking shitload.
No wonder I'm broke all the time.
So, I was browsing the Ford website, and I calculated the fuel costs associated with the Fiesta. Yeah, it would be just over $1,000! There will be no maintenance costs, either. Dealerships pretty much give maintenance away, and the power-train warranty is five years.
So long as I toss only long trips and maintenance drives on the Rover, I'll kill off those tight service intervals, and obliterate fuel costs.
I really like the Fiesta, and it's cheap. It would cost me about $3,000 a year to buy and run, if my sleep-deprived brain is functioning properly. That's a hell of a lot less than the DII. To put it in perspective, the monthly payments on a Fiesta wouldn't be too much more than an average phone bill.
It's so much less, in fact, that I'd save money buying a new Fiesta and keeping some of those miles and their associated maintenance costs off the Rover.
I should go buy one.
Cheers,
Kennith
I, for the first time in my life, calculated how much I spend on fuel every year. I'd always ignored it, and simply paid my bills at the end of the month, deliberately skipping over any fuel points in the list. I never even look at the price of fuel. Why bother? It's never a pretty sight, and I'm going to buy it anyway.
Well, when I came up with a figure of $5,000... :rofl: atriot:
That's so bad that it's fucking funny. While we are at it, let's consider (not calculate) the maintenance costs I fire into that DII. You guys know where I'm going here. You know I'm pretty obsessive about maintenance. It's probably around, to quote Penn Gillette, one mother-fucking shitload.
No wonder I'm broke all the time.
So, I was browsing the Ford website, and I calculated the fuel costs associated with the Fiesta. Yeah, it would be just over $1,000! There will be no maintenance costs, either. Dealerships pretty much give maintenance away, and the power-train warranty is five years.
So long as I toss only long trips and maintenance drives on the Rover, I'll kill off those tight service intervals, and obliterate fuel costs.
I really like the Fiesta, and it's cheap. It would cost me about $3,000 a year to buy and run, if my sleep-deprived brain is functioning properly. That's a hell of a lot less than the DII. To put it in perspective, the monthly payments on a Fiesta wouldn't be too much more than an average phone bill.
It's so much less, in fact, that I'd save money buying a new Fiesta and keeping some of those miles and their associated maintenance costs off the Rover.
I should go buy one.
Cheers,
Kennith
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