Re: Not bad but still no cigar, methinks!
Costs are so variable, which is one reason I ignored them: on my 20-year old Fiat Coupe, it's currently getting an engine rebuild (175k miles) and sundry bits of rust fixing, and it's had other things done over its lifetime, but probably under a grand a year all up. But if you have to have things done by a main dealer, all bets are off.
The Bravo has cost six oil/filter changes, one cambelt, and one clutch apart from tyres in three years and a hundred thousand miles... it's fuel that's the big difference.
The Model 3 looks a lot more useful - and obviously they're funding the development with the big money cars. But my word it's frustrating, after seeing all the crap 'electric' cars that can't do twenty miles without a charge or an IC engine, not to be able to get one *now*. It's very likely to be my next car, though.
Mind you, I'll still need to hire an IC car for holidays - London to Skye or Berlin (600 miles) are both non-stop possible in the diesel Bravo.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
