Cars sold with very low mileage

[px1980]

There are plenty of those on Autotrader, and I don’t mean limited number models bought and flipped by speculators (GT3s etc).
Who buys a nice spec M3/Aston DBX/AMG and sells it after a few months with less than 1000miles?

[The Road Crew]

I wouldn't be too sure that all those low mileage cars are actually genuinely low mileage! Clocking is rife in markets where value is so tightly linked to miles covered.

[georgeyboy12345]

px1980 said:

Who buys a nice spec M3/Aston DBX/AMG and sells it after a few months with less than 1000miles?

Someone who reckons they are into cars, but they aren't really into cars at all - they are into money.

[px1980]

georgeyboy12345 said:

Someone who reckons they are into cars, but they aren't really into cars at all - they are into money.

So as a potential buyer, not much to worry about?

[samoht]

px1980 said:

Who buys a nice spec M3/Aston DBX/AMG and sells it after a few months with less than 1000miles?

Rich people.

Big spenders tend to buy new, to have multiple cars, and to replace cars frequently, all of which adds up to nearly-new low mileage cars being sold.


Personally I can't imagine wanting to do that, I'd rather do as Rowan Atkinson did and have a McLaren F1 and keep it for years if I was super-rich. But having the brand new thing is important to many people.

[anonymous-user]

Someone at my station has very good taste in cars and changes them every 4-6 months; often as fickle as if a new trim or engine comes out, he’ll swap. And we are talking AMG G Class as a station car…

He has a few he holds, GT3RS etc, but I doubt most of his fleet ever see an MOT station under his ownership!

[KTMsm]

px1980 said:

There are plenty of those on Autotrader, and I don’t mean limited number models bought and flipped by speculators (GT3s etc).
Who buys a nice spec M3/Aston DBX/AMG and sells it after a few months with less than 1000miles?

I worked for a private housebuilder, his wife couldn't decide between 4 new cars so he bought all 4 and then sold 3 on

Also many cars with waiting lists can be sold for more or you can use them for 3/6/9 months and get your money back - a mate of mine did this for years

[px1980]

KTMsm said:

I worked for a private housebuilder, his wife couldn't decide between 4 new cars so he bought all 4 and then sold 3 on

She’s not heard of test drives obviously?

[Jag_NE]

px1980 said:

KTMsm said:

I worked for a private housebuilder, his wife couldn't decide between 4 new cars so he bought all 4 and then sold 3 on

She’s not heard of test drives obviously?

It will be a bragging rights thing. It’s more hassle to buy a car than test drive one.

[KTMsm]

Jag_NE said:

px1980 said:

KTMsm said:

I worked for a private housebuilder, his wife couldn't decide between 4 new cars so he bought all 4 and then sold 3 on

She’s not heard of test drives obviously?

It will be a bragging rights thing. It’s more hassle to buy a car than test drive one.

It's more that they had more money than they knew what to do with and were based in Shropshire, pre internet. I worked for them on my year out and they asked me if I would mind, as a favour to take one of their cars to be serviced - it was around an hour away - would I mind driving a BMW with twice the power of my car

I recall the other Director lost his dog on the nearby hills, he hired a helicopter to find it