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Old 3rd November 2005, 10:49   #8 (permalink)
ajmat
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Originally Posted by Psycho
other hand my brother is on the lookout to replace his esteem and FE means the world to him, as for my dad he still thinks that his premier padmini was the best car he ever owned as his total cost of ownership for the car never crossed 1.2 lakhs in the 14 years he owned it( he only did 30,000km in 14 years), his obvious choice for a car still happens to be a M800.

What people do not realise is that depreciation is the real killer, you might spend Rs 500,000 to save Rs 10000 per annum overall. Can understand moving from a 5km/ltr car to a 12km/ltr car but from 10 to 12 - well one is spending to split hairs

Sometimes, it is just an excuse to change - my cousin had a lovely E300 D w124 with 60000km on the clock - he wanted to change it as it might give trouble - we know the answer to that - it can run to 200k without a problem !!! He just wanted a new car !!
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