Here's What It Cost Me to Own an Aston Martin For a Year

01 Nov 2016

I just sold my Aston Martin after owning it roughly 10 months - and driving it about 18,000 miles. Watch the video to see exactly what it cost me — or check out my column to peruse the numbers a little more carefully.

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AKA: Half of it’s value when you bought it

Heh, yeah. I didn’t really think of it that way.

The numbers were kinda hard to follow, did anybody catch a mention of a blog or something where I could see the numbers better? Also did he mention what kind of warranty he has?

http://www.autotrader.com/car-video/heres-what-it-cost-me-to-own-an-aston-martin-for-a-year-258376?LNX=SOMEDOUGENPOST

It’s still a good deal compared to buying a new one and selling that after a year. New car depreciation is killer. My previous previous car (a BMW 545i) had been €93,000 new but bought by me at exactly 4 years old for €33,000. I kept it for 5 whole years and sold it for €9,500 and cost me nothing in repairs that whole time. I lost €23.500, which is less than €5,000 per year. On a similar situation right now, my current car was €106,500 new but I bought it at exactly 3 years old with 24,000 miles on it for only €46,500. The original owner lost about 60% of the value in 3 years. I might well also lose 60% over my 3 years of ownership, but it’s 60% of 46k instead of 106k.

New cars are way overrated.

exactly right, I bought my 08’ 335i for $12,000 about 5 years after it was new. At the time the cost was $50,000. The original owner lost 76% in depreciation. But when I drive it m friends think that I paid more that their $30,000 Kia’s and Hyundias’ lol

I get confused Doug DeMuro … this is the one you sold to a Jalopnik writer after your left Jalopnik where you were writing about it, and now the new owner is writing about the car again on Jalopnik?

I love you and Jalopnik… but I’m easily confused by things getting meta.

It’s different now, Tavarish has the car without a warranty or close to ending if i’m correct. He’s going to focus more on modding the car and not an intro or driving reivews of the car like doug did