Originally Posted by
CommuteCommando
'03 Pontiac Vibe. Paid off for about $16k in '06 including interest. ~4k lifetime maintenance over 180k mi.
I didn't even intend to compare cars to bikes, just commuter bikes to other bikes, but even with that massive mileage total (which you must admit makes your car an outlier for a single owner) you're barely under 9 cents a mile without considering maintenance and fuel costs. Interesting. My '03 Hyundai Elantra is at about 37 cents a mile (but still under warranty).