Originally Posted by navguy12

I'm trading the Civic in tomorrow and have closed out my cost sheets for this car. Here are the executive summary extracts:
TOTALS % of Total $/km
Insurance $5,138.00 12.42% $ 0.0458
Fuel $5,311.11 12.84% $ 0.0473
Repairs $ 107.12 0.26% $ 0.0010
Cleaning $ 146.71 0.35% $ 0.0013
Reg maint $1,308.22 3.16% $ 0.0117
Plates $ 370.00 0.89% $ 0.0033
Misc $ 128.84 0.31% $ 0.0011
Finance $2,225.62 5.38% $ 0.0198
Purchase $26,634.53 64.38% $ 0.2372
Grand Total $41,370.15 100% $0.3685 (as a point of interest, this cost per km is cheaper than the $0.3985 (non-adjusted for inflation) it cost me to run a 1999 Hyundai Tiburon for four years)

Fuel Summary
Total Litres 5450.773
Average Cost $0.974
L/100kms 4.855
Imperial MPG 58.187

Mileage Summary
At purchase 23.0
Total driven 112276.7
Total Kms 112299.7

Greatest single trip 1017.1 km
Average trip length 637.9 km

Winter average (any tank = or worse than 5.0L/100km) 5.32L/100 km
Summer average (any tank better than 5.0L/100 km) 4.65L/100 km

I had the high tire pressures
Wind blocker for winter
Used A/C less than 10% of the time
Stored in a garage that never goes below 10C
Drove the legal limits
Employed mild hyper-miler techniques.

Cheers

Mike