9,000 reasons...

...to love him


Shadowfax and I have completed just over 9,000 miles together over our 134-days of partnership. That's an average of 67-miles a day, every day since we hooked up.

He's cost me an additional £980-odd for ancillaries and servicing / repairs atop insurance and fuel; that's nearly 10p per mile.

Fuel comes in at an average 10-miles per litre; the cost of which has averaged quite high over recent months even if the price per litre has stabilised at the level I whinged at only last year. Call it, £1.20 per litre. That's around £1000, or another 11p per mile. So, 21p per mile is £1890 or £14.10 per day of ownership; around £100 per week.

Gosh.

The Alpha (less insurance) over the same miles and period would cost (@5-miles per litre and a 1/3 share of £900 brakes (so, say £300) and £450 other servicing / repairs and MoT / tax this period. That's £700 servicing and repair plus £2,160 fuel: so £2,910.

Reckoning: £2,910 - £1,980 = £930 "saved"; or £7 per day less expenditure by rule of thumb comparing Shadowfax to the Alpha over the same commute.

Hmmm....

I've probably lost that in depreciation.

Still, it's been great fun!

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