The increase of costs accruing to the holders of vehicles, found in 2018 by the Automobile club association, is carried by the fuel prices.
Owning a car has to be more expensive in 2018 than in the previous year. It is this that has found the Automobile club association (ACA), which publishes this Wednesday its “budget motorist” after having dissected the various items of expenditure of the last year.
The costs associated with the five cars have been vetted : a Renault Clio, petrol, a Peugeot 308, diesel, a Dacia Logan diesel, a Toyota Prius hybrid (gasoline-electric) and, for the first time, a Renault Zoe electric.
Maintenance and insurance
The increase in fuel prices, which has triggered the anger of the yellow vests in November, has the most impact on the increase in the budget allocated to the automobile last year, the study notes of the ACA. According to this “photography annual”, the price of unleaded 95 excluding tax increased by 15.4% and that of diesel by 22.5%. Beyond oil prices, the association has again denounced the “delirium tax”, pointing to taxes that have increased by 6% for gasoline and 12.9% for the diesel.
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on The side of the maintenance costs, these have increased from 3.4% to 3.8%. Insurance premiums have increased by 2.5%, which is more than the inflation rate (1.8%). Conversely, the toll (+1,36%), and the garage of the car (+1,57%) remain below, according to the ACA.
Differences depending on the vehicle
The budget 2018 for a Renault Clio rose 12.7%, but the model chosen by the association is more high-end : finish used in the past year was the Zen, stopped since. “To paste the postponement of the buyers, the new Clio tested in the study is equipped to the finish Bst. The same choice has been made for the Peugeot 308 (+10.3 per cent). The budget for a Logan diesel, model unchanged, increased 0.3%, that of the Prius declined by 1.1% thanks to a good trade-in value to four years.
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“in response to concerns of the quality of the air,” the ACA has “attempted a first approach quantified the annual budget” of a Zoe electric. The kilometre travelled by electric is 26 % more expensive than in heat.
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If the ABA considers the motorist as “the consumer the most heavily taxed”, with 74 billion euros per year,”the car continues to provide the essential travel needs of most of the French households, in particular, to the need forced to go to work (7 out of 10 employees),” notes the association.