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Originally Posted by Evilmav2
I'd be interested to know just how, "those stats have been messed with", arne. Do you have anything specific or more cogent to post on the subject, or do you just ideologically discount and/or disbelieve the information relayed by the article that Bernardos was kind enough to post on this 'stupid' thread?
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Well if you take a fixed cost (the production) and add it to the costs like consumption, etc. and then compare to products over with different life-spans (i.e. 100000 miles, 300000 miles) than naturally fixed costs divided into a lot of miles will be cheaper than the fixed costs divided into a lot less miles.
Let's just hypothetically say that two cars cost both $5000 to produce and consume 20 cents of gas per mile. The $/mile ratio of both cars over a mile-length of 100000 miles will be (5000+(0.2*100000))/100000 = $25000/100000= 25 cents per mile
If you take a 300000 miles-life for the one car and a 100000 miles life for the other you will get different results.
Car with 100000: still 25 cents per mile
Car with 300000: (5000*(0,2*300000))/300000 = 21,6 cents per mile
And that is with pretty low production costs involved...