Further to the used-car packages, Skoda is also offering three- and five-year capped-price servicing packages for ‘new’ cars that have travelled less than 15,000km. By comparison, the three
Korea’s car brand Kia is known for its affordability yet high-quality vehicles for decades. Kia Soul is a multi-purpose vehicle and has amazing reliability ratings, and only 10% of repairing could be called expensive. The annual fee for its maintenance is around $365. Kia Rio has decent power of its engine, but it is still light and compact.
The Skoda Octavia vRS iV Estate Plug-in Hybrid has a 1.4 TSI 245PS petrol engine mated with a 13kWh battery, an 85kW electric motor, with power channelled through a six-speed DSG transmission and a front-wheel drive chassis. Because it’s a plug-in hybrid, you plug it in to charge the battery. There’s a practical and good-looking estate body
The most expensive quotes – each of £480 – came from two garages in Twickenham and west London, while the cheapest came from a garage in Edinburgh that would charge £108 for the same service.
Via Hyundai. The Hyundai Sonata is dirt cheap to own. In fact, on average, the entire brand costs less than $10,000 to maintain over the course of ten years. And the Sonata is even cheaper than that with annual costs averaging $458 in maintenance, proving to be one of the most dirt cheap cars you can own.
A 4WD ute will be the most expensive to maintain over a year, with an average cost of $13,662 a year. A Mitsubishi Triton GLX will be the cheapest of its kind to maintain at an annual average of $12,012. What are the most expensive cars to maintain? In the smaller car category, a Volkswagen Passat 132 will be the most expensive to maintain..