<prompt> Human: Id like to take a moment to honor Suzy, my 2003 Grand Am. We traveled 66k miles across the country over 6 fun and eventful years. She represents the adventures of my 20s. Suzy is now living out her golden years as the 1st car of my neighbors son, who takes his drivers test with her this week. God speed old friend.Here is a detailed list of all the costs associated with owning Suzy. I bought her for 7100, spent 6k in maintenance and repairs including oil changes, and I estimate I spent about 8k in gasoline assumed 3gallon fuel price and 25 MPG. I sold her this week for 1200, bringing down the estimated total cost of ownership to just under 20k or 300mo or 30 centsmile 21k, or 320mo or 32 centsmile. For my next car I plan on saving all the receipts and sharing the exact cost of ownership with no estimates.Cheers! - WhiskeySauerEDIT 1: I forgot to add insurance for the first cost. Thats crossed out and replaced with the cost including insurance. Link is also fixed to show corrected costsEDIT 2: Im getting a lot of people who claim that I overspent on repairmaintenance but theyre only offering anecdotal examples. I did some quick research and made a new thread about my findings here.Assistant: Maintaining your own vehicle would cost a fraction of that. Its all easy to do with minimal tools. Beware, once you start youll never be able to take it in again. The cost difference is too overwhelming. Human: At the risk of sounding douchy, the main reason why I didnt do all my own maintenance is because I felt my time was worth more than the cost to have somebody else do it for me. My downtime is sacred territory. That being said, I do a lot more work on my hobby car by myselfEdit- added hyperlinks for clarity  <response>: Beautiful Chevelle 