I live in a country (the Netherlands) that makes it impossible for anyone that isn't a millionaire to drive a fun car.
>inb4 miata I said a fun car
Seriously, gas prices alone are so rediculous that driving anything with a big engine is almost out of the question. Not even mentioning the costs of insurance, and the fucking tax for owning a car.
Here's an example of what me and my dad have to pay for our cars.
I'm 22 and I drive a BMW 316i from 2000. (slow and old as fuck) Insurance costs me 80 euros a month, tax is 60 euros a month. Petrol goes for about 1,45 euro's per liter.
My dad drives a 2003 BMW 330d. (This is considered a fast car here, lol) If I were to buy this off of him, my monthly costs would be as following; Insurance 135 euros a month, tax is 155 euros a month (because it's a diesel). Diesel goes for about 1,05 euros per liter.
So owning this piece of shit 316i costs me 140 euros a month without driving it a fucking centimeter. Owning the 330d would cost me almost 300 euros a fucking month without driving it! That's half of the fucking value of the car A YEAR in just insurance and taxes. Not to even speak of actually driving it on this fucking expensive fuel.
My dream car is an E46 M3 but I never even bothered calculating the costs of that. It's out of the fucking question if I continue living here.
So tell me Veeky Forums,
where are you from and can you give me a guesstimation of what it would cost you to own either one of these vehicles? I wanna know how bad it differs from other countries.
Jaxson Murphy
You choose yourself a fucking car you want and run the gas mileage plus three liters because fuck you multiplied by how many kilometers you will drive it per month plus five hundred because fuck you.
Then you halve that and imagine how much you'd save if you'd install an LPG system, because that's about as much as you would. There's always a way, and this is the only one if you want to drive bigbux car in continental Europe. Git gud.
Taxes and insurance can be avoided if you have a brain. It's called the European Union. All you need is a post box forwarding letters to you in some bumfuck country out east where you can register and insure your car for a few pennies. European Union means you can drive it everywhere else with little to no restrictions because yay Schengen.
Git fucking gud mate.
Kevin Nelson
My mate has a 330ci on LPG. It basically eats up 100hp.
Christopher Johnson
I'm sure it does mate. My brother has one on his 3 series and it makes just as much power as before, except he pays half of the fuel bill. It eats up half the trunk, I'll readily admit that, but possible power loss is all in the settings of the machine. You need to run it rich.
Grayson Bailey
How does he escape the idiotic taxes that come with driving LPG?
Evan Fisher
There's none of those in Germany. Neither fuel nor vehicle gets taxed to any relevant degree because of the system. LPG gets 9,7 cents per liter tax. Benzin gets 65,54 Eurocent, Diesel 47,07 Eurocent per liter. They want more of this stuff on the road because it burns cleaner than gasoline.
Bentley Campbell
Finland Mercedes-Benz C 220 CDI ´04 Insurance: 24,5€/month Fuel tax(because diesel): 55€/month Price of diesel: 1,1€/liter
Cameron Hughes
Oh I heard about that. That's SO much better than the idiotic system we have. The heavier the car the more you pay, even when you dont drive it. Basically forcing everyone to drive light small cars. It's so fucking hilarious seeing all these shitboxes on the road.
So including taxes, how much does a liter of benzin run you?
Jaxson Stewart
thats absolutely crazy mate. can you believe i litteraly pay 1,75 times as much for my beater 316i?
Nathan Edwards
At the moment anything between 1,15€ and 1,30€ depending on the current mood of our black gold overlords down in the desert.
