mike fuel costs very a lot between drivers on here. it also changes a lot depending on the road conditions speeds etc.

I use mine as a daily driver and it's currently costing me 57p per mile or £571 per month, not including depreciation. Tasty. I've done 12,000 miles since I bought it, and think it's been money well spent. :-)

Are you talking about a monaro or vxr8? Consumables appear to be rather differently priced.

I have a 05 CV8 Monaro that I use as a daily driver. I do approximately 55 miles a day and average 28-30 mpg to tank about £75 to fill and thats a mixture of A roads and motorway. I only work 4 days a week and a tank lasts me just overca week. Apart from a recent service and road tax it has not cost me anything extra, but it is going in for new discs and pads plus new suspension in a few weeks ( suspension is my choice brakes are needed).
Alot of it comes down to driving style with these cars.

A Monaro is probably one of the least expensive ways of running a V8. Look at the MPG of any Audi or Mercedes V8 for example, and then compare Audi servicing costs with ours.

But it's not cheap motoring by any stretch.

Thanks everyone for the replies/feedback, all of which is very helpful.

According to the trip computer on my Senny I get approx. 18mpg to a tank which is generally a 10ish mile round trip to work & back + various gym, football, shopping visits. This in turn equates to roughly 300 miles per tank/per month (only do about 5k miles per annum in it) so mpg for a V8 appears about the same if not slightly better (as I expected looking at book figures). I'm not bothered by mpg anyway, I can't be as I already run a 3.0 24v auto & a Lotus Carlton. As far as parts availability & the car being off the road, well Vx aren't resplendent with parts for the Senny so on occasions I am used to having to use the LC as a daily driver.

My original thoughts were of a Monaro (05-07 plate) with no kids a no real need for rear doors but more recently have been pushed (back into the drivers seat quite literally) towards a VXR8 with prices coming down.

All in all its given me the info I was looking for so I can now go away & budget figures & timescales.

Thanks again for the input.

Mike

I've run an LS3 VXR8 and got about 18-19 MPG of normal driving, mostly urban, no track days etc.

I went back to an LS1 5.7 VXR after also owning a LS2 6.0 VXR as I preferred the coupe VXR look to the VXR8 and needed a big boot for prams etc.

I can't remember what the LS2 gave me, but the LS1 is giving me ~16 MPG for the same type of driving as the VXR8.

This isn't a scientific test, but drawn from my memory.

The advantage of a newer car is that there is less of a chance of a big bill needed. The LS3 VXR8 I got at 1500 miles and was pretty sure I could run that at ~4000 miles per year for quite a few years with just servicing. I don't commute in these cars.

The 5.7 VXR as well as being rarer and looking super cool, at 50,000 miles and 8 years old has the chance to offer up a bigger bill at some point, but I'm happy with that risk.

Go in with your eyes open and you won't go wrong.

Indeed, once you roll everything together, i.e.: maintenance, servicing, petrol, insurance. My 350z would cost an average of just over £6000 per year. Is the VXR8 £800 per year better? Damn right it is. :-)

I'm coming round to realise that fuel cost is the tip of the iceberg - tyres, a clutch etc. can soon out you well into four figure payouts at any time - wouldn't change it for anything, though!