// the short version
A new Lamborghini Temerario with options costs $451,129 out the door. The bills you actually see (insurance, service, tires, fuel) are about $20,895 a year. The invisible ones (lost value, sales tax, lost investment return) are three times bigger. All in: about $84,208 a year, or about $231 a day, about 7 times what an average new car costs (AAA: $11,577 a year).
Out the door
$451,129
Total
$20,895
01
What it costs to buy
itemPrice
- Temerario base price (U.S., with destination)$361,616
- Options$60,000
- Sales tax (7%)$29,513
- Out the door$451,129
In year one it loses about 12% of its value: about $50,600 (about $139 a day).
02
The bills you see (a year)
BillA year
- Insurance (experienced driver; about $17,500 at 19)$8,000
- Registration and value-based taxes$3,000
- Dealer service$3,500
- Tires ($4,800 a set, every ~4 years)$1,200
- Paint protection film + detailingabout $4,200
- Fuel (3,000 miles at 14 mpg, $4.80 a gallon)about $1,000
- Total$20,895
Carbon ceramic brakes, if you ever need a set: about $20,000.
03
The bills you don't see (a year)
BillA year
- Lost value + sales tax over 3 years (worth about $329,000 after 3 years)about $40,800
- Lost return on $451,129 at 5%about $22,500
- Total cost of owning$84,208 (75% of it invisible)
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Per mile
Miles a yearCost per mile
- 1,000about $83
- 3,000about $28 (a 10-mile drive: $281; 50 miles: about $1,400)
- 10,000about $10
The average new car costs about 77 cents a mile (AAA 2025). Ours costs 36 times that at 3,000 miles.
05
Smarter ways
- Buy it 3 years old for about $329,000 and keep it 3 years: about $21.50 a mile.
- Rent one at about $1,500 a day: owning only wins past about 56 days a year.
- Finance it (20% down, 5 years at 7.5%): about $7,200 a month, and about $73,000 in interest.
// your turn
Your Lamborghini, your numbers
Bills you see$20,895
Lost value + sales tax, a year$40,752
Lost return$22,556
All in, a year$84,203
All in, per day
$231
The video's case
$231
Yours
$231
move a slider, I'll redo the math
// the verdict
Drive it under 56 days a year?
Rent one.
Or maybe keep the poster.
// tips if you're thinking of buying
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tap a tip when you've got it covered
// three questions to ask before you buy anything big
// sources8
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- 6newsroom.aaa.comAAA: new vehicle costs 2025 ($11,577 a year)https://newsroom.aaa.com/2025/09/aaa-new-vehicle-costs-drop-to-11577/
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