£65k over 4 years is silly. At best he's a very slow learner.
It's a while ago but as I recall I paid about £60k for mine and sold it around 4 years later for about £35k. So that was around £500 per month depreciation.
I simply don't remember what servicing cost but it was b****** expensive, that I do know. £1,000 a go, or something like that. It probably had 4 of those.
As far as I can recall the only other money I spent was about £3k on tyres.
So it cost me about £700 per month or something like that.
When I wa looking to replace it with an S Class I worked out that depreciation alone on the Merc was £1,100 per month.
But don't rely on me, I don't really rememvber the figures very well. I do remember that it was 100% worth the money and I would have kept it forever were it not for the warranty / maintenance & repair cost concern.
Ultimately my inablity to find a better car to replace it with was why I lost all interest in paying stupid money for the latest exec toys and so spent a few years down at the 10yr old BMW / Volvo / Merc area - and very hppily and successfullly too.
Now I buy around the £30k 12 month old 4WD SUV stuff and drive it for as long as possible. Which I like.
Current is a Nissan Murano which I have grown to hate and a Ford Explorer which I really enjoy.
I'd have another Phaeton now, but only if I could buy it for money that I could afford to throw away if it broke - which it probably wouldn't but it might, and if it did the repair costs would be monstrous.
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