car hybrid

Let me tell you about my experience with cars.
Allmost a year ago I purchased my first used car and i felt so good that it didn't matter that it's not a new car (but that auto purchase wasn't easy). I even got a good price for it, just 2000 Euro. Now that price doesn't seem much to some but for me.... let just say that I hade to take a loan that I will payoff in 7 years. Just for ther record it's Fiat Bravo 1.6 16v (upper left corner of the topic) and you might see why it catched my eye.
But it was unregistrred and with a couple of thinks to take care of, but in the long run it seemed quite a bargain.
Then I realized a tru price of a car (offcourse, this is a Croatian price with a Croatian market). First I had to register and insure it witch costed me allmost half the price of a car(auto cheap insurance my ...), of course that's after it went through mechanical overall witch costed me around 250 Euro (oil, belt's, filter's etc.) not to mention new shocks and (for the lack of an english word) scissors also 250 Euro. But I forgoth about most important auto part which allmost costed me my life......TIRES!!!!

Then this happen'd and it costed me the other half of the price of my car and I lost 15% of my security discount at auto insurance company not to mention the humiliation of being a bad driver at work and a lote of wasted time finding cheap auto parts.
To make the matters worse, the dude that fixed my car did a badly job at repairing it, for example the bodywork was out of line and I allmost racked my machine becose there was no watter in the cooler (my temperature indicator wasn't working right) witch he didn't mention before I drove 20 km overheating the machine.
Can't say that it's not my fault becose it's only my hot head that caused this car accidente so I'm checking that under just another lesson in life.
After that, I did some thinking and figured out that my car has costed me 4500 Euro so far (almost 2 and a half of the car price). And when you ad 100 Euro for gas per month (aproximatly), new tires, new stuff that brake's down on top of regular insurance and tehnical check up each year two things come up my mind.......Drive safely or use public transportation :)