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Default Summing based on criteria and instance number

Greetings,
I have a sheet with data that includes Vehicle, Milage, Cost, etc. What I'm
trying to do is find a formula that will allow me to, for example, sum the
cost of the last 4 entries for vehicle 1. Changing the sort order of the
data is, unfortunately, not an option.
There are a number of ways that I can sum all of the entries for vehicle 1,
(assume named ranges for vehicle and cost columns):

Sumif(vehicle,"v1",cost)
Sumproduct(--(vehicle = "v1"),cost)
{Sum(If(vehicle="v1",cost,0))}

I just can't seem to figure out a way to add the criteria of only going to 4
instances. It can be done with a UDF, but I like to avoid that as much as
possible, as they tend to be much slower than built in functions (or, at
least they are when I write them).

Any suggestions that anyone has would be greatly appreciated.
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Mike Lee
McKinney,TX USA