73 Auto Research
73 Auto Research
73 Auto Research publishes independent UK car ownership cost studies, built entirely from 73 Auto's own published Real Car Cost Examples dataset — the same category-by-category cost models (depreciation, fuel or energy, insurance, servicing, repairs, tax and finance) behind every individual report on the site, aggregated across the full dataset to find and explain patterns. Every figure here traces back to a real, published report; nothing is estimated at the study level that isn't already modelled at the vehicle level.
Published studies
Ranks 53 vehicles in the current dataset by estimated annual ownership cost — from £4,284/year to £9,650/year — and breaks down where that gap actually comes from, category by category. Includes a downloadable CSV of the full dataset.
More studies will be added here as 73 Auto's dataset grows. Every study on this page is built from data already published on the site — see it broken down car by car in Real Car Cost Examples.
How this research is built
Every study starts from the same reports 73 Auto publishes for individual vehicles, using the same cost models throughout. For exactly how each cost category is modelled, see Methodology. For which figures are official data (DVLA, DVSA) versus 73 Auto estimates, see Data Sources.