Quote Originally Posted by coreying View Post
On a side note, although European cars seem on the surface to be expensive to service, looking at the entire picture can be enlightening!
For example, I don't travel any more than 15,000km per year. Which means I'm always servicing based on time rather than km. Over a 6 year period, the cost to service a Toyota Yaris 1.5L Manual is $2319 to $3218. The cost of servicing a VW Golf GTI (MKV) 2.0L Turbo with DSG is $2304 to $2969!
So in other words, the high performance GTI is slightly cheaper than a bog standard Toyota Yaris! I know which one I'd rather be driving
Interesting that as when my Golf went in for its 5th year service with 105000Km on the clock I had to get the water pump/ timing belt done, brake pads all round and the actual service and that cost $2500 all up i.e. one service already equal to the total over 6 years.