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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lee36328" data-source="post: 707589" data-attributes="member: 113">A simple yet detailed calculation quickly showed that it is costlier to own a brand new Altis for 5 years than my 328 for the same amount of time, all elements including depreciation, cost of maintenance, resale value, interest, road tax, fuel consumption, other major things which may go wrong, etc, all that I could think of, fully factored in.Altis still comes up about 9% more expensive to own and run for 5 years compared to the beemer, even if assuming the Altis depreciates gradually while the beemer had zero resale value.When compared to a more equivalent capacity, the Camry at 2.5 liter engine, a new Camry is a whopping 40% more expensive to own and run for 5 years than the old beemer..Hmmm... I never knew that. I had always assumed along w everybody else that the maintenance of a beemer is expensive compared w reliable Japanese cars like Toyotas. It seems true intuitively. But calculations revealed otherwise.</blockquote>