The other day I had the discussion with my father about how much 1 km with the car actually costs. Our opinions are quite different. He thinks you can count on about €1/km, which I think is quite exaggerated… As an example we took the gulf of my mother. It is a Golf VI, 2.0TDI, 140hp, DSG. The car was one of the last of its generation with EZ 03/2013, had 4000km on board and cost €20,000. Cash purchase. The car is driven about 20,000km a year. The reason for the story was that I wanted to take a road trip with my girlfriend – and we could have taken a rental car. However, my mother said that she didn’t need the car at all, so we should take your car. I very gratefully accepted the offer and so we drove in 10 days well 3000km. My father now thinks, after we came back, that this makes an equivalent of about €3000, what I got there to drive on vacation It is not a dispute, but a discussion – in which he is quite sure that he is right. ======================================================================================================================= Insurance per year: €600 Cars Tax per year: €300 Service / HU / Workshop costs per year: €300 Wear parts, tyres, brakes, windscreen wipers, washing liquid per year: €400 This makes up for €1600 fixed costs per year. In addition, the fuel costs are more or less variable. at 20,000km and 6l consumption are approx. 1200 liters and at 1,35/litre the additional €1600. So with fuel this would be approx. €3200 per year. However, since I was fueling at my own expense during the trip as well as paying motorway fees, I assume here again from the initial €1600. 20,000km – €1600 3,000km – (€1600 / 6,67) = €240 I know that the loss of value can also be taken into account, but: Who is right here? How much “equivalent value” was the car on holiday? a lot costs a km with our golf? Is this generally a “good method” to be able to determine the costs for other vehicles as well?