Yes of course. Service is 150. I dont count things like tyres and repairs as theyre so one offs and spread over many years that theyre so economical. I do about 6k miles per year, look after my car and drive sensibly, so very rarely do things go wrong. Depreciation? I paid 5k for my car and due to EV pushing up second hand prices, now its been valued approx. at 6.5k.
Someone once said that the biggest fear is fear itself. So much anxiety is brain washed into people nowadays to rely on the reliablity of others, rather than depend on their own integrity. As Andy said, ‘reliability trumps everything else’. All well and good, but the price of that reliability is literally legalised extortion. I tend to live at my old age now by the law of ‘whats the worst that can happen’? And, the last thing that floats my boat is being wrapped in fresh gleaming new metal and plastic. It gets me from A to B easier than walking, thats it.