King-Victoria Transit Hub

[Canard]

You can rent a car every weekend of the year and still come out ahead of owning.

I don’t follow the math on that... can you help me out?

Let’s conservatively say you can find a place that will rent you a vehicle all-in for $150 for the weekend (which I don’t think you can). That’s $7 800 a year, and you have to wait for their office to open, do an hour’s worth of paperwork every time... huge inconvienence.

I’ve owned our current car since 2008, we paid cash about $30 000 for it. (Over that same period, you would have paid $78 000 for rentals.)

To make your argument valid, we would have had to spend greater than $48k in fuel and maintenance. In fact, we have spent $12k in fuel (~25k km/year) and about $4k in oil changes, tires, and other basic scheduled maintenance (all other costs). I track this meticulously so I have all this data. Also, this car has lots of life left in it. I expect to have it for another five years at least, if not double that.

Additionally, without a bus pass you couldn’t go anywhere during the week. What’s that, $50/mo? So add another $6k to your $78k.

Off topic, but I needed to expand on your statement.

I’m glad you’ve found a solution that works for you! This one works for me. I guess this is engrained in my brain growing up in rural Ontario - there, without a vehicle you literally can’t do anything.