Car costs
![Itemized average total costs for the average american driver to own and operate an automobile.[1] This yearly value, around 6650 USD, corresponds, according to AAA, to a small sedan.[2]](/uploads/202502/19/Automobile_costs_for_USA.svg5115.png)

The car internal costs are all the costs consumers pay to afford owning and running a car. Normally these private expenditures are divided by fixed or standing costs and variable or running costs. Fixed costs are those ones which do not depend on the distance travelled by the vehicle and which the owner must pay to keep the vehicle ready for use on the road, like insurance or road taxes. Variable or running costs are those which depend on the use of the car, like fuel or tolls.