Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gerry, I lived in the UK for twenty years and it is still a relatively inexpensive place to maintain a car. Here are my car-related expenses in my part of the world: Car tax 100% - for example, a 2006 Porsche 911 costs US$220,000 Annual road tax US$1,700 Insurance US$2,800/year with full NCB Petrol/gas US$8.33/gallon, approx. US$900/month Parking US$520/month (residential) Parking US$580/month (office) Parking US$4/hour (typical downtown parking lot) Plus various tolls for tunnels/roads. And culturally we do not like buying used cars, cars depreciate heavily here: typically 30%/year. Like Leica purchases, we prefer to buy new whenever possible :-) Still, I must not complain. I understand my friends in Singapore have approx. 250% car tax. Joseph [Hong Kong, SAR] On 29/4/06 2:03 am, "Gerry Walden" <gwpics@googlemail.com> wrote: > Petrol (lowest grade) is now at 0.99 at some of my local places, which > equates to about $8 a gallon US. Couple that with cars about 35% more > than most places, add around $300 per year road tax, and you soon > realise that driving is an expensive 'luxury' here in southern England > where congestion is some of the heaviest in Europe. > > Gerry > > On 28/04/06, Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote: > >> As I'm aware of the costs in other countries due to my assignments about >> the >> planet over the years, quite frankly I always felt sorry for you folks in >> the UK when I'd arrive home and realized how "cheap" our fuel was.