Annual $ of your Stevens Esprit

[nuck]

I was looking at the cost of running my Jag XJR for the last 25,000km.
Fuel and oil changes excluded I am at about $8000 CDN which is a little over $5000 USD and the car is still on warranty. Granted this is a daily driver but I am talking about basically 2 years of operation of a 1998 model. In USD some of the highlights were $450 for front shocks which I installed, $600 for a new rad(run in with low parking curb), $1400 for set of Michellin Pilots, $800 for major tuneup at 100k(not even a timing belt), and $400 for touch up paint on rocker panels. From what I have seen my sedan seems more expensive to keep than an S4. How much have your Turbo Esprits been running you guys, and what sort of items?

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[autocross7]

I really can't say for the year. I have not owned mine but for a few months...however, that being said... I have "found" several money saving options. For example, front breaks from Toyota (same as 88 Supra) for 45.00$USD, caliper rebild 9.95$USD, and a set of vacume lines from Mazda (correct color) 18.00$USD. I get my surgical tubing for free - but I think it runs about 1.00 a foot +/- in most hardware stores here (needs to be replased about every 5 years I'm told). I needed to replace mine when I bought the car. I was told when looking that the upkeep was less than the 308GTS Ferrari, and so far that is true. I was also told that the Esprit "must be driven". This also has proven to be true... I would def. reccomend an Esprit. Besides they are SOOOOOOO fun to drive!
Drive topless!!!
Cameron

[ErnestM]

Some of my costs are in the profile. It's a '98 V8. I also could qualify for an award as the "most anal Esprit owner" as EVERY little things gets looked at whenever it goes in the shop and I do 0 work myself...

ErnestM

[rob.e]

I also have running costs in my profile for my v8.

My car had 35,000 miles on it at 3 year old when i bought it. I've done a further 35,000 miles in 28 months. All the work is done at a main dealer - ££ labour rate, but they're fast and the quality of work is excellent.

Take out the 'exceptional' item (you'll see which one) and the cost per mile is actually not too bad.

Although people will tell you an esprit is costly to run, it really depends on what your comparing it to. I'm yet to find an similar performing car (ferrari etc) with 70k miles at 5 years old against which i can properly compare running costs.

"My xxx costs less than that" is all very well but means nothing if its a ferrari that only does 3k miles per year!

Rob

ps - my 4 cylinder esprit that i ran before that cost me significantly less to run than the v8 but i only kept that for 12 months/12,000 miles.

[madmike]

I have running costs in my profile, but on my web site they are more up to date:

http://metalasylum.com/evilyn/service.html

Mike (Web site whore)

[cnh1990]

For 4 cyl cars.
5-6 hundered USD/year if you do it yourself.
about 1000-1500/year if you send it out.
Calvin

[adrianmugridge]

All my running costs are un my site, www.adrianmugridge.co.uk under lotus, GT3. Look at £3k a year if you don't work on the car yourself.

Adrian

[MikeyRide]

madmike said:

Mike (Web site whore)

Ditto