Running Costs
Carbon Ceramic Brakes: Replacement Cost Against Service Life
Carbon ceramic brakes produce the most alarming quote in supercar ownership and one of the most misunderstood. A full original equipment...
Section 04
Running Costs
Tyres, brakes, fuel and the parts that wear whether the car is driven or not.
Running Costs
How Long a Clutch Lasts, and What Shortens It
Clutch life on this class of car is decided by transmission type and by traffic, in that order. Published figures from a specialist put a...
Running Costs
The Cost of a Single Mile, Item by Item
Every cost on this site can be sorted into two groups: the ones billed by the year and the ones billed by the mile. Once they are...
Running Costs
Exhausts and Catalysts: The Bill Nobody Budgets For
Catalysts are the running cost owners discover rather than plan. A replacement on an ordinary car is published at 150 to 800 GBP. On a...
Running Costs
What a Hybrid Supercar Battery Costs to Replace
The hybrid hypercars of the last decade have reached the age where their battery packs are a live question rather than a theoretical one,...
Running Costs
What Kerb Damage Costs to Put Right
Kerb damage is the most common cosmetic cost on a low, wide car with expensive wheels, and it is one of the few bills in supercar ownership...
Running Costs
What a Supercar Really Drinks, Against the Official Figure
The official figure and the one an owner sees are far enough apart that they describe different cars. Published data for a 5.2 litre V10...
Running Costs
Steel or Carbon Ceramic Over Ten Years of Ownership
Both systems are defensible and the arithmetic between them turns on one number: how far the car will actually go. Carbon ceramic discs are...
Running Costs
What a Set of Supercar Tyres Costs and How Long It Lasts
A set of tyres for this class of car is published at 2,500 to 4,500 USD by one official retailer and 3,000 to 5,000 by a specialist...
Running Costs
Why Tyres Expire With Tread Still on Them
A supercar tyre usually reaches the end of its life without wearing out. On a car covering 2,000 miles a year the tread will still be deep...