I know a friend of mine who runs a workshop who picked up a 16-year old carola, just over 180,000 kilometres last year. When the owner came to maintain the car, he made a write-off with him, and after listening for half a day, he turned around and issued a circle of friends: over 16 years of age, the car landed at 128,000, the cost of raising the car was 8,500 dollars a year, accounting for depreciation of less than 15,000, and the combined cost per kilometre was two. The map is that carola dashboard, which clearly says 180,237 kilometres。
He told me that the owner of the car was a middle-aged man, that it had never been in a 4s store for 16 years, that it had been on the side of the road for maintenance, that the insurance had only been paid for three, that the fuel had been supplied to private station 92, that the parking had been for free, and that the car had been washed by rain. My friend's words were: "this is not a car. This is a car that is used as an animal of its own, and it works without grass."。
And then i went and checked. The piping version of section 2026 has now been reduced to 999 steps, with the wltc combined fuel consumption of a minimum of 4. 06 litres plus the 92, calculated at $7. 51 litres at a cost of 30 cents per km. Fuel version 1. 2t consumed between 5. 88 and 6. 09 litres of fuel, ranging from 4. 4 to 4. 6 cents per kilometre. But it's all data on new cars, 16 years old cars can drive this cost, not by cars, by people。
The owner has a habit of not driving fast. The starter never had floor oil, the red light slipped early, and the high-speed cruise was set at 100. A friend of the repair plant said that he had had his car 160,000 kilometres to check the brakes, leaving one third, and the tires had travelled 80,000 kilometres to change them. This is not a car. This is a foot check。
Low miles of cars actually hurt more. One of the car owners sold the carola fuel version last year for five years and replaced it with a second-hand pair. He delivers children three kilometres a day, with more red lights than green, and less than 5,000 kilometres a year. The 4s store master said his car wasn't broken, it was cold. The maintenance records show that less than 30,000 kilometres of gas-saving doors have not been cleared twice and that there is always milky and white in the oil caps。
It's not the same when you switch. Starter belts, when the red light goes off automatically, the engine icons become less and less light. There was a rain, the child fell asleep in the back seat, and he stopped at the intersection and forgot to drive because of the silence. It's easy to maintain, only once a year, to change the oil machine and see how healthy the battery is. The brakes haven't changed for 60,000 miles so far. Master says it's fine for another three years。
Another car owner, the carola fuel version, drove 22,000 kilometres in five years to take the children to buy food. This low mileage is supposed to be the least expensive, and as a result, it took more than 800 to wash the air-saving doors twice in three years, and to replace the tri-dollar catalytic agent once. 4s says it's a cold car that's shaking so hard that it needs to clean up。
Two beaks were subsequently replaced, only twice in five years, once in the air conditioner core, and the brakes were not even moved. After toyota was sold, it ran 5,000 kilometres in the same year, and the two-storey engine worked only about 60 per cent of the fuel version. It's a lot worse to experience it in a lot of places. The red lights, such as oil trucks, are buzzing and the elderly in the back row say they panic. Once the platinum stops, the car is quiet, 38 cents, less than the sound of a book。
The brakes too. The fuel tablets are replaced with brake plates every three years, with double beaks open at 60,000 kilometres, 4s stores lifted up, leaving more than half of them with less than a millimetre of wear and tear. Because 70 per cent of the slowdown depends on the recycling of electricity, the brake blades are only used last. The rhythm has changed. The fuel truck was checked at 5,000 kilometres, and the owner was unable to remember, either for a month or two, or if he had gone to find out that he had not reached the mileage, he was not insured. Two berylliums are 12 months or 10,000 kilometres, and mobile phones are a reminder。
The difference is even more pronounced when selling cars. That pair of beads hung in second hand last year, the buyer looked at chavebo's car, added 3,000 on the spot. The occupants said they liked to collect the pedals because they were largely unprepared: no carbon, no oil in the kit, no brakes, no money. In the same year, the fuel truck from the same mileage was under pressure, and the price difference was more than $10,000。
On the other hand, 2026 carola bi-annual insurance coverage of approximately 5800 consists of compulsory insurance, vessel taxes and commercial insurance. Based on 15,000 kilometres a year, it costs more than $4,100. In terms of maintenance, the first guarantee is 10,000 kilometres of oil switching machines for fuel filtering, at a cost of more than 1,300, with a total maintenance cost of 8,400 for 60,000 kilometres per year for each 20,000 kilometres of air filtering cores and gear tank oil. Together, the cost of the first year's vehicle use is 12,700, over 1006 per month. This data is for new vehicles and does not include parking and washing。
The 16-year-old owner was able to crush 8,500, relying on four items: insurance only for immediate needs, fuel for cheap ones, maintenance for roadside shops and parking. His logic is simple: the car is for driving, not for offering. You don't need insurance, save it. Gas stations run like regular private oil, and roadside shopkeepers have worked for 20 years and are no worse than 4s. Parking fees are free and car washes are rained and in violation of regulations。
Someone asked him if he wasn't afraid the car was on the road. He said it was 16 years old, only once. The bottle was dead, and a hundred bucks hit. The rest of the time, this carola is like a transparent person, moving when it's time to stop, not to get caught。
Today's carolina price has fallen to its lowest ever. The price difference between the direct sale price of section 2026, the pioneer pioneer, and the fuel version has been significantly reduced. The configuration is full of standard tss 3. 0 smart-line security systems with l2-level driving aids, full-speed self-adaptation cruises and lane maintenance. The machine was upgraded to the 815 chip to support carplay and voice control. Axis 2750 mm, trunk 470l. In terms of fuel consumption, 4. 13-4. 45 l is used for the combined oils of the two platinum version wltc and 5. 88-6. 09 l for the fuel version 1. 2t。
But the sales are gone. In february 2026, carola sold 5001 units a month, with a large gap of 40,000 at the peak. The sale in the exhibition hall, where the phone was brushed, was completely different from the car that was booked a few years ago. The biadi stand next to it is much more popular, and the qin plus is not only pure electric, but also electric, and the engine is fast, and the sound says air conditioning is on。
According to the sale, most of the people who have recently been asked about carola are persons over 40. They don't care about intelligence. They're stable. When the young man entered the door, he asked if there was a noa-assisted driver, if he could park the car automatically, and when he heard it, he turned and left。
The preservation rate has been reversed. Before, it had been said that toyota cars had been sold off by second-hand, and now three years later the carola preservation rate was 61. 2 per cent and qin plus achieved 63. 5 per cent. Even the best durables are covered by the new practices of remote diagnosis and upgrading of the ota。
But the 16-year-old driver didn't care. His carola is still in operation and aims to retire another four years and 220,000 kilometres. He calculated that at that point the average annual depreciation could be reduced by another thousand and the cost per kilometre could be reduced to less than two. He said: "the car is not afraid of old, but you are afraid of changing." it's not a loss if you use it completely。
