Heartie, Greenie, I spend around $1K monthly on my car which includes instalment, petrol, parking, ERP, insurance and road tax but excluding maintenance and repairs. I could keep my costs low as mine is a small cc manual car, monthly instalment is small and mileage is OK. Because of my age, 30% NCD and car make and size, my motor insurance is peanuts.
But maintenance and repairs can eat up some of my savings at times. For example, I had to repair my bumper which sustained a crack due to careless parking. Once I went over a log on the highway causing leakage in engine oil. Oh, had to replace the braking system as it was malfunctioning. All these took place within the same month and I was suddenly poorer by $1.5K.