There’s a big difference between buying a cheap car and one that’s affordable to own.
The latter guarantees you the lowest running costs throughout the period you keep it – and that you get the biggest chunk of the purchase price back when it comes time to sell. But which models will be best to your bank balance?
This is Money can exclusively tell you which 10 new vehicles in showrooms today offer the cheapest ownership costs of all.
Crunching the numbers to tell you which are the 10 cheapest new cars to own over a three-year spell. Here’s the countdown using HPI’s TCO calculation
The exclusive data propping up the top 10 list has been supplied to us by automotive data experts at HPI.
It ran the total cost of ownership (TCO) calculation for every single new motor in showrooms based on a three-year ownership period with an average mileage of 10,000 miles per year.
The running costs include a variety of controlled factors, including retail price, the cost of servicing, fuel…
