Thread: How much do you spend buying a vehicle?

Originally Posted by Beetroot

Reason for asking this is I've looked at the price of new car/4x4/ute/SUVs and on my salary I could afford something pretty reasonable, but to me it doesn't seem to makes sense financially as my current vehicle will do 99% of what a brand new one would do.

But clearly lots of folk are out there buying new vehicles, just wondering who that kind of person is.

I have always bought both 500- dollar cheapys and 16-20k 4wds and had a pretty good run untill I upgraded my LN106 to a 80 series cruiser then shit when pearshaped...for what that thing cost me in 3 years I could have had a new triton/dmax/hilux/bt50 and taken the family on holiday to Rarotonga.

Went back to cheap shit.....still costing big dollars to maintain (actually the swb Rav 4 was the best 4wd I have ever owned in maintenance/repar cost and purchase/sell cost but it would never be a long term proposition with the use it was getting)

I was in a vehicle rut bad.

Very high km hilux/ranger etc I could get for late teens to low twentys and have a high probability of a first gen common rail shitting itself and costing me the same again....Burnt too many times I just couldn't risk it spending 20k on a worn out ute so tho I couldnt really afford it I went new with warranty....No regrets so far and new vehicles are so much better to drive than 25-30y old ones.