The pence per mile winner - is it you?

[Ved]

After getting a new clutch and tyre recently I've been adding a few items to my PH garage and saw the PPM creep up a little.

Anyway, this got me thinking. Statistically, who's got the least frugal car on their garage that they currently run? So no depreciation loss or anything like that, just running costs and any extras you've put onto cars you took to work today or for a spin in this wonderful winter weather.

So If you're keeping your ph garage up to date lets see who'll be on bread and rain water this Christmas.

So something like this:

Car | Without Fuel | With Fuel
Subaru Impreza STI | 15p | 39p
Subaru Forester XT | 30p | 54p

Anyone seeing more than 100 PPM instantly makes my cool books.

Edited by Ved on Monday 23 December 13:33

[kambites]

You need a minimum mileage requirement. Otherwise lots of people will be joint first with cars like my MG that get started occasionally (and hence use petrol) but never turn a wheel.

[LukeR94]

Car | Without Fuel | With Fuel
Vauxhall Astra VXR | 25.8ppm | 49ppm

[Ennoch]

Standard 05 WRX Impreza: 14.4ppm / 38.4ppm

Fuel equates to 27.4mpg on Tesco SUL.
Parts equate to Timing belt/pulleys, winter tyres, a radiator & oil/fluids change. Parts costs only as I don't need to pay labour.
Mileage for the period was 10k in ten months.

Edited to add Tax & Insurance...oops.

Edited by Ennoch on Monday 23 December 17:01

[CraigyMc]

Ved said:

After getting a new clutch and tyre recently I've been adding a few items to my PH garage and saw the PPM creep up a little.

Anyway, this got me thinking. Statistically, who's got the least frugal car on their garage that they currently run? So no depreciation loss or anything like that, just running costs and any extras you've put onto cars you took to work today or for a spin in this wonderful winter weather.

So If you're keeping your ph garage up to date lets see who'll be on bread and rain water this Christmas.

So something like this:

Car | Without Fuel | With Fuel
Subaru Impreza STI | 15p | 39p
Subaru Forester XT | 30p | 54p

Anyone seeing more than 100 PPM instantly makes my cool books.

There's a guy on here with a Veyron. Do you count tyres and wheels in your calculations?

[GuyWMD]

BMW E91 330d | 18.6ppm | 33ppm

Not too shabby! Full costs are in my garage, but I suspect the relatively high mileage it gets used for helps.

My old Silvia would have been in the £'s per mile! It got used so infrequently and only saw maybe a couple of k's worth of mileage in the whole time I had it, yet many MANY thousands seemed to disappear when it was in my hands. Shame really.

[kambites]

CraigyMc said:

There's a guy on here with a Veyron. Do you count tyres and wheels in your calculations?

And, probably more relevantly for most people, depreciation?

[JPBailey]

I spent over £3000 on My Datsun this year and I'm on a 3k limited mileage insurance policy; so I'm well over 100ppm.

[1878]

Car | Without Fuel | With Fuel
Alfa 159 V6 | 233p | 258p

What do I win?

Figures distorted somewhat by an engine* rebuild not long after buying. 5 months/3000 miles.

• it's a GM engine before the inevitable Alfa comments come along...

Edited by 1878 on Monday 23 December 14:46

[TVRJAS]

I think you should include over what period so at 5 months

running costs 33.9
total with fuel 62.0
TVR Chimaera 4L

Worth every penny

Not the winner but just jumped up a bit as just done an online 6 months tax that runs out on the 1st Jan...

Total running costs 37.1

total no depreciation 65.0

It's a shame more members do not keep a full and accurate list of running their cars.

Edited by TVRJAS on Tuesday 24th December 17:43

[Froomee]

Over the last 18 months (7-8k miles) for my Z4MR:

29p for petrol

29p for running costs (although pretty much all of this is the H&S Exhaust i have and BBS CH wheels that i'd get a fair % back on) if you tax this out then it drops to 7p

58p per mile total including tax and upgrades (No Insurance or Depreciation)

Without upgrades 36p Bargain!

Edited by Froomee on Monday 23 December 14:50

Edited by Froomee on Monday 23 December 14:51

Edited by Froomee on Monday 23 December 14:54

[HonestIago]

Clio Trophy (42 months and 9k miles): 69.5p without and 89p with fuel.

Impreza Turbo (13 months and 7k miles): 72.5p without and 98p with fuel!

All details in my garage (figures are all inclusive)...not had the best luck! Insuring a hot hatch from age 20 was never going to be cheap either!

[Matt UK]

My Caterham can do well over 100p/mile...

...it's not an expensive car, it just hasn't traveled very far in the last year..

[kingofdbrits]

kambites said:

You need a minimum mileage requirement. Otherwise lots of people will be joint first with cars like my MG that get started occasionally (and hence use petrol) but never turn a wheel.

Also a max mileage, i'm doing 140 miles a day on my commute at the minute so the PPM is getting lower & lower on vehicle costs, i'm doing the servicing myself and even with a big GTX turbo i've just strapped on, with all the traffic i'm struggling to get under 30mpg, though i'm off-setting that with motorway price V-Power (have a fuel card)

Mazda 3 MPS | 27.4ppm | with fuel 48.4ppm

[kingofdbrits]

Having said that, i must have a competitive total fuel spend, car has just turned 3 years old, has 77k miles on it and my fuel statement has a total average 28.12mpg all on V-power. So £16,782 in 3 years. Glad i'm not paying it.

[gazchap]

E61 M5, owned since start of July, over 5,050 miles.

[Ved]

kambites said:

And, probably more relevantly for most people, depreciation?

First post. Have a closer read.

[wigglebottom]

Not sure about cost without fuel.
But including fuel, Tyres insurance. I.e everything over 30,000miles....

An extremely costly 13.3ppm. Thirteen whole pence a mile.

[topless360]

I knew I shouldn't have calculated this as it makes me slightly upset, but counting just servicing and insurance:

Ferrari 360 | 2470 pence per mile excluding fuel

Figures are due to the fact I've done just 100 miles since buying the car, but had a full cambelt service done plus insurance costs. I think I need to do more miles to bring that figure down

[carl_w]

Lower than I expected:

Car | Without Fuel | With Fuel
BMW Z4MC | 36.4p | 61.4p

Compared to previous car:

TVR Cerbera | £1.37 | £1.61