Man maths

[Mansfieldman750]

OK OK… it was €100 from Barcelona to Palma + €120 from Palma to Valencia = pretty good value

That’s a bargain, I expected something like €400 return.

 

[Louis II]

I showed your post to our son who is an accountant and to my surprise he agrees with you.
You would be replacing a car with a California. Both vehicles would have costs for road tax, insurance, maintenance, fuel. Different but broadly similar so leave that aside.
Then it becomes a simple buy vs rent comparison and he added the depreciation per camping night to the camping fee.
He was only dropping his dog off and sort of grabbed my iPad and jotted this down but you’ll get the gist.
Only works if you do in fact go camping for 700 nights and stay away from hotels and Airbnbs so don’t go sneaking off to Tenerife for 2 weeks for some winter sun.

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Close but sadly wrong, assuming you also use the Cali as a daily drive you need to bring in cost of the car you would have bought if you didn’t have the Cali as a saving. For ease let’s say that would have been about £40k and, with it not being a Cali, after 10 years it’s going to be pretty much worthless. I think that makes the camping bit of the Cali pretty much free, resulting in a saving of around £50k over 10 years. That’s man maths.

 

[Mansfieldman750]

Close but sadly wrong, assuming you also use the Cali as a daily drive you need to bring in cost of the car you would have bought if you didn’t have the Cali as a saving. For ease let’s say that would have been about £40k and, with it not being a Cali, after 10 years it’s going to be pretty much worthless. I think that makes the camping bit of the Cali pretty much free, resulting in a saving of around £50k over 10 years. That’s man maths.

Nice one ! Yes I get that. The OP would be using his car to get to the £100 hotels and it would be worthless after 10 years so that depreciation needs to be added to the cost of the hotels.
I’ll put the accountant right.
That’s the key to this. Use your Cali as a daily driver.

 

[Kayleigh]

That’s a bargain, I expected something like €400 return.

Yes, I was surprised too. I spoke someone who paid even less with a different company. I used Baleària. Makes it quite a doable trip really and there are loads of routes. Would avoid Ibiza though.

 

[Mansfieldman750]

Man Maths No Good !

I was just about to explain to my wife that she would have to give up her Suzuki Ignis as we would be using the California as a daily driver thereby saving large dollops of wonga, and that that week in Madeira she mentioned next winter would not be happening as we would not be staying in hotels anymore.

I then thought, hang on, the Ignis can’t depreciate by £40,000 if it only cost £15,000 in the first place. Indeed I am entirely convinced that the Suzuki Ignis will become a cult classic and be worth £20,000 in ten years time which will really mess up the spreadsheet.

I have therefore decided, on balance, it is best not to mention the car or Madeira. Softly softly approach. Don’t rock the boat. Delicate subjects. Coward at heart.

 

[Louis II]

Man Maths No Good !

I was just about to explain to my wife that she would have to give up her Suzuki Ignis as we would be using the California as a daily driver thereby saving large dollops of wonga, and that that week in Madeira she mentioned next winter would not be happening as we would not be staying in hotels anymore.

I then thought, hang on, the Ignis can’t depreciate by £40,000 if it only cost £15,000 in the first place. Indeed I am entirely convinced that the Suzuki Ignis will become a cult classic and be worth £20,000 in ten years time which will really mess up the spreadsheet.

I have therefore decided, on balance, it is best not to mention the car or Madeira. Softly softly approach. Don’t rock the boat. Delicate subjects. Coward at heart.

Maybe if you’d taken man maths seriously and learnt it sooner you wouldn’t own a Suzuki Ignis in the first place and this wouldn’t be a problem

To be fair my cali replaced a BMW estate that was used as a family car and the man maths held up a bit better. Doesn’t really work to replace a smaller car / runaround.

 

[Mansfieldman750]

Suzuki Ignis and a tent. Get rid of the California. We’ll save a fortune. We can have 2 weeks in Madeira.
I’ll just tell my wi…. No, that’s not a good idea either.

 

[Californication69]

Suzuki Ignis and a tent. Get rid of the California. We’ll save a fortune. We can have 2 weeks in Madeira.
I’ll just tell my wi…. No, that’s not a good idea either.

Tell the wife, a week all inclusive with all the family, once a year. Happy wife, happy life.

 

[Duff.]

At risk of sounding like a donkey, the difference between 68k and 52k is 16k, so don’t you mean £16000/53 months = 302 per month?

It took a while