Comments on: The math of car ownership in Singapore http://www.squarecirclez.com/blog/the-math-of-car-ownership-in-singapore/298 Mathematics, learning, computing, travel - and whatever... Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:58:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Tim http://www.squarecirclez.com/blog/the-math-of-car-ownership-in-singapore/298/comment-page-1#comment-123983 Tim Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:00:15 +0000 http://www.squarecirclez.com/blog/the-math-of-car-ownership-in-singapore/298#comment-123983 I live in Canada and have 3 cars and it costs me about $7000 for all three cars a year. That's driving about 25000km a year. With $25,000 I bought a Roush modified Mustang GT with over 400hp as my fun car. $23000 nets me a 7 seater Honda Odyssey with 240HP V6, and my daily commuter is a Honda civic that I bought for $12k. I'm your typical "average" Canadian graduate earning $70k a year. You can equate this to the difference between living in Zimbabwe vs Canada. Why would I want to live in poverty when I don't have to? I live in Canada and have 3 cars and it costs me about $7000 for all three cars a year. That’s driving about 25000km a year. With $25,000 I bought a Roush modified Mustang GT with over 400hp as my fun car. $23000 nets me a 7 seater Honda Odyssey with 240HP V6, and my daily commuter is a Honda civic that I bought for $12k. I’m your typical “average” Canadian graduate earning $70k a year.

You can equate this to the difference between living in Zimbabwe vs Canada. Why would I want to live in poverty when I don’t have to?

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