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Old 03-28-2013, 02:47 PM
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My Dad, a lifelong car guy, said once that in the thirties and forties, fifty or sixty thousand miles was considered reasonable life for a car, but now(he was saying this in the mid sixties) a hundred thousand miles was considered reasonable life.

In the sixties and into the seventies, 100K was probably a good lifespan for a car.

Today, I see a quarter million as being a good mark to consider as par.

My $0,02,
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