Cost of going home

[James_B]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 21 September 2017 at 11:32

[WonkeyDonkey]

Use which ever car you want to drive.

Does MPG really matter when you can afford to run and own the cars that you have?

[Yipper]

Liftshare = £38 return.
Coach = £45 return.

[Mr Tidy]

James_B said:

MPG itself isn't the critical thing, but realising that I spent over a thousand pounds on each return trip does make me stop and think.

I love nice cars, but most of the 300 Mile journey is just sitting carefully at 80mph up the A1. Spending so much on such a boring trip feels profligate.

Don't go then!

[51mes]

I do this all the time, look at a (relatively) flash car on the drive and think most of my mileage is pootling up and down motorway - what a waste.. I think then of having to do the mileage in a diesel econobox and shudder... Some cars the that outlook wins and I get the occasional guilty pangs, others I end up in an econobox and list after something better.

You only live once and you can't take it when you go... Etc etc etc..

The v40 has just been replaced with an xe-s ...

[James_B]

Yipper said:

Liftshare = £38 return.
Coach = £45 return.

I think that you are on the wrong website.

[Yipper]

James_B said:

Yipper said:

Liftshare = £38 return.
Coach = £45 return.

I think that you are on the wrong website.

Think you're a bit slow.

It is the cost of London to Newcastle return.

Save a fortune.

[Countdown]

James_B said:

Yipper said:

Think you're a bit slow.

It is the cost of London to Newcastle return.

Save a fortune.

Ah, insults. Very good.

No, I will drive, or ride, or go first class on the train. The M3 is getting dropped back tomorrow, so that's an option, but I think I fancy the big bike instead.

Well, obviously you'd go "First Class" (or PH class as I believe it's now called) , but it seems strange in that case that you're commenting about depreciation and MPG......

[Some Gump]

Obvious humblebrag is obvious. Give you 2/10 for the bait.

[Countdown]

James_B said:

Countdown said:

Well, obviously you'd go "First Class" (or PH class as I believe it's now called) , but it seems strange in that case that you're commenting about depreciation and MPG......

How so? It adds about £50 for a six hour return journey.

I do wonder at other people's attitude to money sometimes. Your post suggests a very all or nothing approach to profligacy whereas for me (and I assume for most people) a "treat" on something reasonably priced is not the same as spending far, far more on something different.

Equally I wonder sometimes at the sheer pointless of some questions (unless it IS a #Humblebrag as Some Gump has suggested).

Your maths also makes no sense. To suggest that a trip from London to Newcastle costs £1300 in the C63 is ludicrous. Your C63 would have depreciated nearly as much if it had been stood outside your house for the last 3 years. And to suggest that the costs for taking an R8 would be inestimable “because it’s a future classic”……well ok, if you say so.

Anyway I’m off to ponder whether to have Crunch Nut Cornflakes for breakfast or the Jordan’s Fruit & Nut muesli......

[counterofbeans]

Some Gump said:

Obvious humblebrag is obvious. Give you 2/10 for the bait.

This. 2/10 is generous though.