Ok, I'm not tabulating this for you on my phone, but rough estimates on my cars prices (including taxes and such), length of ownership, mileage, and sale prices (I spent basically nothing modding any cars until my current vehicle):
1994 Sunbird - bought for $0 (long story), sold for $0 (different long story), 6 years, 80k miles
2007 GTI - bought for $26k, sold for $6k, 6 years, 145k miles
2013 Sportwagen - bought for $26k, sold for $29k (TDI Buyback!), 3 years, 60k miles
$52k spent, $35k recovered over 15 years and 285k miles. $94/month ($157 if you toss out the Sunbird).
So buy new and hold is about 1/2 the cost of riceburnering BUT I only got to play with 3 cars over 15 years.