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Archive of Running Costs

1998–2007

When AA running cost tables were first published in 1950, the road fund licence (car tax) was £10 and a litre of petrol cost 3.3p. However, care is needed with comparisons:

  • the modern car is more economical and a lot safer
  • it produces only one or two percent of the toxic emissions of earlier cars
  • it is quieter, easier to drive, more durable, and much more reliable, and
  • it carries features that in 1950 would have been literally incredible.

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Year
Petrol
Diesel
Motorbikes
1998
Petrol car running costs 1998
Diesel car running costs 1998
Motorbike running costs 1998
1999
Petrol car running costs 1999
Diesel car running costs 1999
Motorbike running costs 1999
2000
Petrol car running costs 2000
Diesel car running costs 2000
Motorbike running costs 2000
2001
Petrol car running costs 2001
Diesel car running costs 2001
Motorbike running costs 2001
2002
Petrol car running costs 2002
Diesel car running costs 2002
Motorbike running costs 2002
2003
Petrol car running costs 2003
Diesel car running costs 2003
Motorbike running costs 2003
2004
Petrol car running costs 2004
Diesel car running costs 2004
 
2005
Petrol car running costs 2005
Diesel car running costs 2005
 
2006
Petrol car running costs 2006
Diesel car running costs 2006
 
2007
Petrol car running costs 2007
Diesel car running costs 2007
 


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