How old is the car you usually drive?

[s p a c e m a n]

Only car, used every day: TVR Chimaera, 17 years old and 50k miles. Can't wait for some snow

[S0 What]

Blaster72 said:

decadent said:

Surprised at the results, thought there would be newer cars to be honest especially since out of the road it is full of them.

Mine's 20 months old and has covered 12.5k. But I expect to run it until it will run no more; I buy as ex demo and keep.

Polls are usually skewed as only those wanting to "show off" will usually respond. In this case there seems to be a clamour to show who has the oldest daily driver.

Mines 6 years old. I'm getting soft, I don't really enjoy older cars any more unless they're very special and only driven for short periods or special occasions.

Or a lot of people on here are simply into older cars ?

[s p a c e m a n]

Yep, I'm much more in to mechanical stuff than electronics. Even if I won the Euromillions it's unlikely that I would buy a toy produced in this century. A commuter maybe, but that would just be transport.

[HannsG]

2005 E46 M3 - 83k miles

2008 Saab TTiD - 95k miles

I could have opted for a brand new A5 as a company car....nah I'll stick with my M3!

[Lowtimer]

My two dailies are 14 and 24 years old.

[Funkstar De Luxe]

7 Years old. 67K. Feels like new to be honest.

[AW111]

Funkstar De Luxe said:

7 Years old. 67K. Feels like new to be honest.

Well it practically is .

[Funkstar De Luxe]

AW111 said:

Well it practically is .

Newest car I've owned :-D

[chevy-stu]

Daily is 05' 530d, or 08' Transit.

But toys are 99' 7, and 77' Camaro.

[RenesisEvo]

My 'shed', build date 8th April 2002, is younger and has done less miles than my 'fun' car, build date 12th Dec 2000 (celebrating its 14th birthday yesterday). Whilst I do want a younger car for various reasons (mostly to do with iron oxide), I'd have to sacrifice an awful lot (performance, ride, quality). Combined both have done 250k miles. One hardly feels it, the other does.

[AM7]

13 years and 99k miles - BMW E46 325Ci

Non-petrolhead friends and family question why I bought "such an old car", until I take them for a spin, they then realise it's far superior to their brand new budget superminis.. and also far cheaper

Next car will hopefully be an E36, so will be older, I just like older cars! I (generally) find them more engaging to drive and far easier and more enjoyable to work on

[e21Mark]

41 years and I imagine it's well over the 100k. That said, my newest car is still nearly 25 years old and I usually go by condition than mileage anyway.

[Torchy1957]

Daily Car: Audi A6 2.6l V6 Avant
197,000km
1996 (19th Birthday coming up soon!)

[sim72]

Our five vehicles are 8, 14, 17, 25 and 44 years old. My current daily is the 14 year old one. The two older ones only get summer use.

[220te]

Daily: 26 years old 405,000 miles.
Nice one 21 years old 215,000 miles.Very rarely used these days though.

[Biker's Nemesis]

Daily driver is 18 months old with 24 k on the clock

Focus RS Is 11 years old with 71k on the clock

[richytanimal]

Daily driver: 14 years old 89000 miles
Weekend toy: 58 years young approx 20000 miles!

[ZNSsupercars]

Daily driver 12 years old, with around 150,000 miles

[TheBALDpuma]

I find the fact that there is a large defecit at the 3-5 y/o car point odd. You'd have thought it would have steadily increased, then dropped off.

[Lowtimer]

I think that's because at the moment the readership contains two large sub-groups:

1) people who actually regard cars as things to own, a group which is biased towards letting other people pay the worst of the depreciation, so tends to have older vehicles aged 6 years+

2) people who prefer to hire a new one and hand it back at the end , which is your balloon of 1-3 year old vehicles.