Whole Life Cost Toolkit

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Whole life Cost Toolkit

Transform your vehicle decisions with comprehensive cost insights. Our Whole Life Cost Toolkit empowers you to look beyond the purchase price, giving you a complete analysis of vehicle ownership costs. From fuel efficiency and maintenance to tax implications and depreciation, we provide the detailed intelligence you need to make smarter, more cost-effective choices.

Make Cost-Smart Decisions

Calculate the true cost of vehicle ownership beyond the price tag. Make smarter financial choices by understanding depreciation rates, maintenance expenses, and tax implications. Select vehicles that retain their value and minimize your long-term costs through informed decision-making.

Improve Efficiency & Performance

Transform your approach to vehicle management with comprehensive performance insights. Compare fuel efficiency across different models, evaluate the potential savings of electric and hybrid alternatives, and reduce ongoing costs through strategic maintenance planning. Understand component wear rates and servicing requirements to optimize your vehicle’s operational life.

Find the Long-Term Value

Maximize your return on investment through comprehensive cost analysis. Make confident decisions backed by real-world data on vehicle longevity, maintenance costs, and operational expenses. From breakdown cover to component lifespans, understand every factor that impacts your vehicle’s lifetime value to secure the best possible long-term benefits.

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Determine the optimum wat to tun your fleet or personal vehicle.

Use our Benefit in Kind Calculator for company car and van drivers to help you choose the most tax efficient vehicle. You can also amend the calculation for private mileage fuel, whether you make a capital contribution and where you make a monthly contribution for private use.

There is also an Employers National Insurance calculator for business Whole Life Cost calculations. This figure is amended whenever the Benefit in Kind calculation is changed to take account of private mileage fuel use, a capital contribution being made or employee monthly contributions.

Cars and Vans depreciate at different rates. This is usually the biggest cost to owning and operating a vehicle. Our Whole life cost tool allows you to compare these rates for vehicles you are thinking about buying. Also compare the costs of new verses used. Our Residual Value model is professionally created monthly from several sources and maintained by our in-house industry experts.

Find out how environmentally friendly your vehicles are and what carbon footprint you will have. Compare the taxation costs across vehicles and find out your road cost for the life of the vehicle. Our team keep the latest guidelines programmed in to give you the most accurate information at your fingertips.

Get accurate forecasting for service, maintenance and repair costs for thousands of vehicles with our Toolkit. We base maintenance predictions on manufacturer main dealer service costs, replacement and repair costs – including critical parts – combined with our own experts predictions of component life and failure. Now expanding out into the EV market too.

Using our search facility find exactly the make and model that’s going to work best for your fleet. Drill into the Analysis tool to compare up to 4 vehicles side by side with all their operating and running costs. Helping you make objective decisions about your next car or van and assist in business fleet selection policy.

The data in our toolkit is totally independent of manufacturers with no bias. Our team of completely independent automotive experts work with the latest taxation and finance rules to give you as accurate information as possible.