Thanks for taking time out of your day to join us here on the Clark Howard Show where

it's about you and your wallet.

I want you to learn ideas to me.

It'll help you keep more of what you make.

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Right now I want to talk about something that is a stunner.

Consumer Reports did a deep dive on data on what does it cost really?

If you follow that old advice of keeping a car 10 years or longer, does the math really

work?

Are you sabotaging your own wallet or are you saving it?

I'm going to give you some numbers that are so clear that you'll have no doubt what

to do in the future.

As far as what it costs to operate a vehicle, since most people keep a vehicle a very short

ownership cycle, the cost of owning a sedan per month, a passenger car, averages today,

little over $5,000 just to hear over $5,000.

If you own, I'm sorry, $500, I say $5,000 a month, a little over $500 a month.

Well, that was an expensive sedan with says that for a Rolls Royce or something, $500

a month.

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