text: Giving up are cars is a money saver! cars are a black hole that you just feed money into. we have to pay for gasoline every week or so and then we have fines and tickets. In Vauban, Germany residents have to pay for a parking spot to leave their car at and that parking spot does not come cheap. One parking spot costs 40,000 dollars on top of a payment for a house and other nessesities.