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Old 01-22-2007, 09:19 AM
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If you buy a super low mileage car like that one and actually drive it then it will lose all of that premium value very quickly. The thing about these cars is you're much better off finding a nice, well maintained one or two owner car that has 100K miles on it than a low mileage one, IMHO. Many of the things that go wrong with them have nothing to do with mileage and have everything to do with time and deterioration. In fact, the worst thing you can do to a car is let it sit undriven.

If you think a low mileage one will cost less to own than one with 100K miles forget it...they will both be costly to own unless you do the work yourself, even then it will not be cheap. I guess what I am saying is you can buy a really nice one with some more miles for $10-$15K that if you take care of it will be worth close to that anytime. You spend $20K on this one and put some miles on it and it will be worth $10-$15K too but you'll still be putting the same money into it to drive it.
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