I've never had a car (not land rover) that does more than 23mpg, but I've never spent a lot on them. Paid £750 for my current merc so am not bothered about the fuel cost. If it did 40mpg I would save about £600 a year. Not worth buying a modern car for that.
I also usually sell them for more than I paid for them a few years down the line once I've ragged them to bits and the rot sets in. Lost money on the last one but not a lot over about 4 years.
An electric cars cost £100s a month to buy, and then cost a fortune when it goes wrong. Old mercs don't really go wrong and waft you along
I completely agree with you, all my modern cars are older models the GL is the youngest being 2011 last year of the diesel V8’s, the ML is 2008, and the Jag S-Type is 2003, for me all still very modern cars, but to some, usually younger people they are classed as old cars??
The cost of changing them to more modern heavily dependent on electronic wizardry cars or space ship technology electric cars would be tens of thousands, buys you a lot of fuel and tax does that…….
I can appreciate people like to have the peace of mind a new car brings, with a manufacturer warranty and dealership support and if you are at the financial level of being able to buy new or nearly new then good for them I say… my brother has a new high end car every two years, but he admires and spends more time talking about my old Land Rovers n cars than he does his when I ask him how his car is running!! Doing 58mpg and it’s cheap tax!!
The big con with fuel is the duty but the even greater con is the VAT on top! Fuel price effect’s everything we buy, I can see it hitting £2.50 litre before long, the government is making billions out of us in one of the quickest forms of tax collection, amazing coincidence after they have just shelled out so called billions for the pandemic!
It’s not just here though mother-in-law lives in Belgium, she paid €2.31 per litre the other day for E10 Petrol!
It’s all about getting some coffers back in the volt asap
soon be Christmas