Frankenstein’s Car Built With UK’s Most Expensive Car Parts| SMART MOTORING
The Monstrous Costs Haunting Britain’s Motorists This Halloween
Reading, October 2025 – This Halloween, leading vehicle ownership and management solution, MotorEasy has stitched together the ultimate motoring nightmare, a monstrous machine built from Britain’s most expensive car repairs.
Drawing on thousands of claims and vehicle warranty plans, MotorEasy unearthed the most expensive repairs carried out over the past year. The result is the creation of Frankenstein’s most expensive car ever.
The parts used to create “Frankenstein’s Car” cost a total of £78,200 and include the Air Conditioning from a Mercedes S-Class, a Range Rover engine, the drive battery from a Mercedes C-Class, and an Audi A7 transmission.
| Make | Car Part | Repair Bill |
| Mercedes S-Class | Air Con | £3,000 |
| Audi Q7 | Alternator | £3,200 |
| Range Rover | Engine | £15,900 |
| Mercedes C-Class | Drive Battery | £11,000 |
| BMW 4 Series | Fuel System | £1,900 |
| Land Rover Discovery Sport | Gearbox | £6,800 |
| Jaguar XE | Steering | £7,000 |
| Land Rover Discovery | Turbo | £10,000 |
| Audi A7 | Transmission | £19,400 |
| Total | £78,200 |
There were plenty of parts to choose from and if Frankenstein wanted a different gearbox, he could have selected it from the popular family SUV, the Nissan Qashqai. This would have cost £4,100, another frightening figure albeit slightly less than the Land Rover Discovery Sport.
While Halloween might bring temporary scares, unexpected repair costs can haunt drivers all year round. With advanced technology and hybrid components now common even in mid-range models, MotorEasy warns that the cost of keeping vehicles on the road is rising faster than many realise.
Duncan McClure Fisher, MotorEasy founder and CEO of Intelligent Motoring, said: “The figures are frightening and not just because it’s Halloween. Today’s cars are more advanced than ever, but that means they’re also more complex and expensive to fix when something goes wrong.
“Frankenstein’s Car is a light-hearted way to remind drivers that breakdowns can be scary in more ways than one. It’s a seasonal take on the data that sits behind our MotorEasy car Reliability Index – a live dataset that tracks the relative frequency and cost of repairs across 341 different vehicle models”.
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