My 

Hyundai

has about 132,000 

miles

on it. Given its 

MPG

around 23 in the city and 30 on the highway and my driving patterns, I estimate that this car has now burned roughly 5500

gallons

of

gasoline

. 

That's a lot of gas! And calculating by the average price of gas over the past 11 years I can say that over $13,000 dollars have been spent on gas alone. Couple that with the oil changes every 4000-6000 miles and the transmission fluids that have been changed twice now and you can see that much more money has been spent on fluids going into the car then has on the car itself.

Amazing how that works. I schedule maintenance on this car in a manner that can get it well over 200,000 miles. But my driving patterns aren't that high mileage. So we'll see if the Hyundai can get there. For now it's still smooth sailing.