# Are you kidding?  GM insanity inside.

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**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\
**Created:** [January 17, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/are-you-kidding-gm-insanity-inside/42024 "2008-01-17T20:13:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 8:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/are-you-kidding-gm-insanity-inside/42024/39 "2008-01-18T08:39:07Z")

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> [@POOPRA](#):
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> Heres another calc, because Im bored
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> Say you want to keep a car for 8 years, and you drive 15 K a year.
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> You buy a new civic for 15 K, sell it 8 years later with 120K on it for at least 5K. You average 29 mpg, so you pay about 15K for all the gas you put into it. Total cost = 25K.
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> You buy a hybrid civic for 23K, sell it 8 years later for 3 K because that batteries are about to die. You average 42 mpg, so you pay 10K for all the gas. Total cost 30K

> [@93dx--hatch](#):
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> ^ your argument has no facts to back it up, its just you talking out of your ass. find me a 2000 hybrid for 3k?

even if you adjust those numbers and say that the used hybrid would go for 8k, its a break even, and at to be generous, 10k your only saving 2k over what? 8 years. Then factor in repair costs which are likely super high, and you cost of ownership is probably back to being a loss over a gas powered equivalent.

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