Originally Posted by
Mobile 155
Yes, AAA has taken depreciation into account and they provide you with AAA’s 2013 ‘Your Driving Costs’ brochure listing how much each type of vehicle will cost you per year. I will admit that had I not bought as many cars as I have over the years I might be living in a 10,000 square foot mansion and have a Brand new CF road bike with full DI-2 and hand built wheels. But still at least here in the US housing is by far a bigger expense than a car.
Then again without the car I may never had all of the promotions that over the years let me have two homes so I could sell one and move into the paid off one when I retired, two years early. How would someone factor in that experience in a calculator?
One couldn't, of course, calculate all that with this particular calculator ... this particular calculator only calculates one thing in isolation of everything else around it in the attempt to make the point, which we all know already, that cars can be expensive.
