You lose
1 690 £
every year.
The average UK driver doesn't know what their car really costs. Depreciation, insurance, service, tyres, ULEZ - hidden in invoices nobody adds up. We add them up, for 976 models, in 30 seconds.
Tesla Model 3 LR vs VW Golf 1.5 TSI
One engine.
Four audiences.
We don't guess.
We calculate.
Every figure in the table comes from the TCO v4.0 engine: 2D depreciation surface, event-based maintenance, per-brand tier intervals, speed-dependent consumption, regional labour multipliers, Monte Carlo at the close.
Full methodology →What the dealer
left out.
8 cost components. The dealer shows 2. The rest land in your inbox - or only at resale.
„The dealer showed me the monthly payment and fuel cost. Four years later it turned out the residual value had dropped by 38% - nobody had counted that.”
Data,
not opinions.
Every article based on real engine calculations. No sponsors, no clickbait.
Four step-by-step guides.
Pick a scenario, check the decision table, calculate in 5 steps.