What's it cost to run a VR4?
In my quest to be voted the most anal man of the year, I've kept a record of my first year's running costs. I've posted this in the general forum rather than the members section as it's likely to be of interest to people before they become members !
For those of you who don't know the story, I imported my 1996 Legnum VR4 from Japan myself. I had spent many months trawling around the tat offered by UK importers and dealers, and got fed up with the locals! I set out to buy the best example I could find, which turned out to be an auction grade 4.5 Trigger Mauve VR4 with around 40000 miles on the clock. I had hoped that by doing this, I would avoid having to make costly repairs... as you can see from the list below, I haven't been entirely successful. I think that this is because no matter how low the mileage, for most of us with imports, our cars are hitting 10 years old - and age is just as good at killing rubber seals, bushes, etc as mileage is.
(Orignal import story threads here and here).
When you read the figures below, bear in mind that I'm a high miler - just over 17000 miles in the first year. A service every 4500 miles makes the VR4 a very expensive high miler! I've also had all the servicing done by Xtreme - not the cheapest option, but they're convenient, and I have limited time!
(I've had to insert the table as an image as I can't work out how to post it! Click to enlarge)
Bottom line as you can see is that these cars cost around 50p/mile to run - this is not bad for a performance car. Official figures for many cars are a lot more ( I think the 7 series costs close on a pound/mile )