14 April 2016

The Stradman's Lamborghini

A young, car loving youtuber released some statistics about his Lamborghini ownership. I felt that summarizing the video in writing will potentially be useful to me or for others interested in this subject.

If I recall correctly, the youtuber was 26 when he bought this car in late 2015 for $110k. I think that's a fair price for a Gallardo with the manual transmission (at least a $15k premium in the used market), a good looking color scheme (orange), low-ish miles (under 10k), and single owner. I can believe that a well-cared E-gear (automatic) car costs $95k with everything else constant. The cars around $80k generally have more than 15k miles and are almost certainly E-gears.

His 6-month insurance premium is $972.66. Being over 25 certainly helps.

He claims his average mileage is 14.7mpg over the past 8k miles that he has driven. While laughable, at least he is enamored with driving the car and doesn't live in an area with a high gas tax.

He paid $2573.43 for his first (probably 15k) maintenance. Also laughable, and painful!