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Toyotas are too expensive today. For total cost of ownership, it's probably reached parity with used BMWs, it's just that with the Toyota you frontload the main
by carabiner 3y ago
Toyotas are too expensive today. For total cost of ownership, it's probably reached parity with used BMWs, it's just that with the Toyota you frontload the maintenance costs in the purchase price. The BMW will be much nicer to drive, but it'll have $1,000 in surprise maintenance (on top of oil changes) every year while being much cheaper to acquire.
- glimshe 3y agoWhen I was looking to buy a car, that was not what I saw. What you said may be the case with other brands such as Hyundai or Chevrolet, but for BMWs you are always paying more - frontloading and recurrent maintenance.
- longitudinal93 3y agoExcept in the case of the i3 which has, by far, the highest reliability and lowest maintenance costs of any BMW ever produced. No wonder they discontinued them!
- badpun 3y agoAnd also, every now and then, the BMW's engine or uber-complicated automatic transmission will have major issues, and you're out of $5k-$10k.