I'm all for saving up before buying.

 

Another vote for that it's reasonable. If I was a possible consumer and bought the car and was able to maintain ownership at a lower cost then I would consider that I was doing better than the average. Which is what I think that is trying to show for that area code.

There will always be lower...but I would think that there are also alot higher too.

 

i think it works for me considering about 1 1/2 full tank of gas per week and i'm looking at 15,000 mpy as they did too.
Insurance seems bit high but i'm sure thats quite accurate price as average.

 

If you added up all of your car payments, then your results can't be compared to the ones Edmunds did. Their costs don't include the cost of the car, just the depreciation. So if you bought your car for $30,000, then your results are automatically $14,000 higher than theirs because they don't have the $30,000 cost of the car, just the $16,000 in estimated depreciation that the car will experience in the first five years. That $14,000 isn't really a cost. It's the purchase of an asset, so it's not included in the calculation of the cost. So deducting that $14,000 from your figure puts your estimated cost at about $20,000 below what Edmunds says.

 

word, i pay 3k a year with a good driver and student discount=(

 

When we pay as we go, the money goes a lot further.

 

I remember those days, and I didn't have a car even halfway as cool as the S2000. One advantage to getting older is much cheaper insurance. I pay less than $850 a year for mine with full coverage. I would say that the average new S2000 owner is over 25 so your high insurance is not the norm for this car.