Maintaining a car is very, very expensive.
4,700 euros per year on average, according to an INSEE study published in 2021. Knowing that the median monthly income is around 2,000 euros, a car eats up more than two months of salary each year.
And the more modest you are, the more this weight weighs on the family budget: the 10% of households with the least wealth spend 21% of their disposable income on transport, the 10% wealthiest, only 11%.
It has certainly become a luxury.
A luxury that is nevertheless vital when you don't live within reach of a metro station or a bus stop.
Impossible to give it up to go to work, go shopping, pick up the children, go to a medical appointment.
This France of the self-dependent has no other choice but to make do.
She fixes things up, even if it means taking risks.
Making your tires last to space out visits to the garage is not without danger.
And when, at the end of the race, the engine dies or the technical inspection condemns the vehicle to scrapping, it's off the road.
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