[cashflyer]

Note that some of the comparisons here are cost per year and others are cost per mile. That's important!!!

My 1976 Duster has cost me about $275 per year since I bought it - but it has cost me about $250 per mile!

My wife's Kia has cost me about $3500 per year, or about 14 cents per mile.

My last pickup cost me about $2400 per year, or about 23 cents per mile. (It was a big dually plus it bit me for some expensive work before I got rid of it.)

My current pickup has not been here long, so the numbers are skewed....
Currently it is costing me about $567 per month, or about 57 cents per mile. But it's paid for and those numbers will keep going down unless something breaks.

If I want to keep the cost numbers down, I buy a cheap, cosmetically-challenged vehicle that has good mechanicals. I paid $1700 for this pickup. It only has 86,000 miles on the odometer, but the bed is wrecked. I don't care about the dents. I do care that it is relatively low mileage and dirt cheap.