I'm pretty enamoured with the beemer, so much so that I thought about keeping it til it's done the magical 100K miles.

It currently has 27K on the clock, not bad for a 56 plate. Then I had a bit of a maths breakdown.

current petrol prices in this area £1.30 / litre

1 UK gallon = 4.546 litres

average real world MPG for 2006 335i = 25MPG

73000 miles @ 25 MPG = £17,256.62.

Petrol prices are only gonna go up. Now where did I put that Nissan Leaf brochure? lol

How much would it cost you do get to 100K?

Yeah but it's a 335, You don't really care do you .......

depends on how many miles you do a year... i used to have the fiat 50+ mpg 50k per year, now the vRS II, 40 mpg, 20k per year.... similar cost

choose your car to suit your circumstances

Since 2006, 62k has cost just over £8000 in fuel.

So I guess another £6000 will get me to 100k

Mine's on almost 120k so nothing. However in the past 6 months I've spent a fortune: Clutch&flywheel, exhaust, timing belt coming up. So not just fuel prices to look at.

With today's engines, 100K is nothing. I'm so terribly old that I remember when 100K most likely meant that you at least once had changed cylinder sleeves, piston rings, crankshaft bearings - things almost never done nowadays. OK, you may have to change clutch, starter, generator... but I'm not sure that it will cost you more than what you need to pay for a new(er) car of the same kind.

I can understand that fuel consumption is a bit worrying, but fatty5000's comment says it all

Hmm good point about the annual milage. I do about 12k per year int Beemer, so it would take me just over 6 years to get to 100k.

So £2876 per year on fuel at the current rate. Not too bad I suppose.

And as I always say, you don't buy a fast car for the fuel economy.

52 mpg in Mazzie. 100K = 1953 gals = 8654 lt at (currently) 138.9 = £12020. 25K/yr = £3005/yr.

I'm depressed now :'(

I've owned several cars that were past the 100k mark when I bought them...Not sure the average mpg of the motor at the mo to work out how much it would cost to do the 29k til it reaches the 100k mark...

Thing is I worry that fuel prices are gonna reach £2.00 per litre by next year, and by then when it's really too expensive to run said Beemer, I'll try and flog it for a Perodua Please Put Me Out Of My Misery. And it'll be worth exactly 17 pence.

Now's the time to stick or twist. One thing for sure is that I'll never be able to afford another car like the Beemer which is properly fully loaded.

It makes me genuinely sad to think I might have to give it up. :'(

This is unfortunately what the government want - us all to end up in tiny fuel efficient cars! :'( That way they stop us polluting! I will always have a petrol car as a toy, but might have to swap my Octavia to a diesel soon as the fuel consumption is bad and its costing too much to put fuel in

This is unfortunately what the government want - us all to end up in tiny fuel efficient cars! :'( That way they stop us polluting! I will always have a petrol car as a toy, but might have to swap my Octavia to a diesel soon as the fuel consumption is bad and its costing too much to put fuel in

OMG that reply so makes me want to keep the 335 til the oil reserves run dry! Lol

This is unfortunately what the government want - us all to end up in tiny fuel efficient cars! :'( That way they stop us polluting! I will always have a petrol car as a toy, but might have to swap my Octavia to a diesel soon as the fuel consumption is bad and its costing too much to put fuel in

No they want you to stay trapped in your gas guzzler so they can extract as much tax from you as possible whilst making you feel guilty about killing badgers and hippies and therefore not blaming them for the high tax.

The actual volume of fuel sold in this country is going down, I wonder where they will look to fill the revenue gap when they notice.

Probably an extra tax on 3 phase supplies people will put in to fast charge their Leafs.

Thing is I worry that fuel prices are gonna reach £2.00 per litre by next year, and by then when it's really too expensive to run said Beemer, I'll try and flog it for a Perodua Please Put Me Out Of My Misery. And it'll be worth exactly 17 pence.

Now's the time to stick or twist. One thing for sure is that I'll never be able to afford another car like the Beemer which is properly fully loaded.

It makes me genuinely sad to think I might have to give it up. :'(

I think the key to this will be to reduce your use of the Beemer to make up for the increase in prices.

Well my mind's made up now. The car went in for a service today, and I casually asked the approved used bloke about nearly new 320d's. I'd have to take on £250 per month for the next four years to buy a car which hasn't got half the trinkets that the 335 has got. I currently don't have any finance payments so its a no brainer really, considering the mileage I do.

Here's to two more years of petrol guzzling fun!