{"id":109,"date":"2010-09-19T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=109"},"modified":"2011-03-15T21:49:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T04:49:25","slug":"seeing-past-the-sticker-the-cheapest-cars-to-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Seeing past the sticker: the cheapest cars to own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sticker prices and financing aside, figuring out which car is really the cheapest to own can be a complicated affair. You have to consider the costs of sales tax, depreciation, fuel, interest on the loan, insurance, maintenance and repair. In this article, I\u2019ll give you the rundown on the best deals over the long haul, broken down my MSRP, total cost of ownership (TCO) and vehicle category.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auto.howstuffworks.com\/under-the-hood\/cost-of-car-ownership\/what-cars-have-lowest-cost-of-ownership.htm\" target=\"_blank\">What cars have the lowest cost of ownership?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sticker prices and financing aside, figuring out which car is really the cheapest to own can be a complicated affair. You have to consider the costs of sales tax, depreciation, fuel, interest on the loan, insurance, maintenance and repair. In this article, I\u2019ll give you the rundown on the best deals over the long haul, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=109\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seeing past the sticker: the cheapest cars to own<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,18,30],"tags":[16,15],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto","category-consumer","category-maintenance","category-top-10","tag-economics","tag-hybrid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}