Car & Bike

10 tools

Loans, mileage, fuel and the running costs people leave out until the bills arrive.

The cost of a vehicle after the showroom: loan repayments, fuel, mileage, and the running costs that only show up once the bills start arriving.

Running cost per kilometre is the number worth knowing before buying. Fuel is the visible part, but insurance, servicing and depreciation together usually exceed it — and depreciation, which never appears as a bill, is often the largest single cost of the first few years.

How these tools work

Every one of these 10 tools runs entirely in your browser. There is no account to create, no file to upload and no daily limit, because the work happens on your own device rather than on a server — which also means there is nothing for us to log, cache or leak. Most of them keep working with the network off once the page has loaded.

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