cav551:
Certainly it is very much about the total cost of ownership, but the finance charges or what that money could have earned elsewhere on that extra £25 grand over however many years will have a significant impact upon how good a decision that might turn out to be. Factor in a model change or a new Euro emissions rating and things might look very different when it comes to residual values. The potential fuel savings may sound good, but how achievable are they? with an employee driver? Running fridges all the time you might get near any published figures but pull boxes or tall curtains and it will be a different story.
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If you are looking at TCO , I think it’s pointless drilling the figures down too much, you can never predict that far ahead what will happen, the mpg you will return. It just doesn’t happen like that.
I can understand why nsmith likes to know his figures inside out on a daily/weekly/monthly basis, but you have to have flex when you are thinking over 4-5 years.
We don’t go for the big engines simply because we pull nothing like full weight, max is probably 12,ton, usually around the 8 ton mark.
Last vehicle was a Renault, 18 months old and it’s been fine. Would probably still have had a Scania if their sales could have been a**ed to call back.