Unusual high mileage cars?

[Toaster Pilot]

I fully expect to find a Mondeo or Vectra that has done 40,000 miles a year, but this?

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2011...

[CampDavid]

Must have been miserable.

£4k seems a bit stiff

[Toaster Pilot]

CampDavid said:

£4k seems a bit stiff

Definitely - although it would've been over £10,000 new

[CampDavid]

Toaster Pilot said:

CampDavid said:

£4k seems a bit stiff

Definitely - although it would've been over £10,000 new

Just checked Picanto pricing - I guess you're probably right. Mental

[Toaster Pilot]

CampDavid said:

Just checked Picanto pricing - I guess you're probably right. Mental

Yeah Graphite is the top of the range of the old model Picanto. The list price of my '1' was £7,345 but I paid £5,500. No idea what kind of discounts were available on Graphite because there were no new ones left by the time I bought mine.

Local dealer has a new model high spec 3dr for £12,490

[davepoth]

My company wouldn't let me rent anything bigger than a Kia, even when I was driving from Somerset to Bedfordshire and back in a day. Luckily that was very rare, but if I had been given one of those as a company car for doing serious mileage I would quit.

[Toaster Pilot]

It'll probably have been privately owned given it's approved used stock at a main dealer so I assume it's been part exchanged (a lease car on that mileage would just go to auction and I doubt the main dealers wound touch them, unlike ex daily hire cars which are everywhere but a lot lower mileage)

[CDP]

davepoth said:

My company wouldn't let me rent anything bigger than a Kia, even when I was driving from Somerset to Bedfordshire and back in a day. Luckily that was very rare, but if I had been given one of those as a company car for doing serious mileage I would quit.

If they asked me a second time I think I'd refuse to go. I doubt it's much more than a tenner extra for a Fiesta.

[Toaster Pilot]

CDP said:

davepoth said:

My company wouldn't let me rent anything bigger than a Kia, even when I was driving from Somerset to Bedfordshire and back in a day. Luckily that was very rare, but if I had been given one of those as a company car for doing serious mileage I would quit.

If they asked me a second time I think I'd refuse to go. I doubt it's much more than a tenner extra for a Fiesta.

A company I used to work for wouldn't rent cars as small as that, Fiesta/Corsa size being the smallest.

Since they were self insured, there was £2/day difference between Corsa -> Astra -> Astra with a bigger or diesel engine

[10 Pence Short]

Someone got a bargain a few years ago when I traded in my 23 month old Civic Type-R with 125,000 miles on it...

[Toaster Pilot]

10 Pence Short said:

Someone got a bargain a few years ago when I traded in my 23 month old Civic Type-R with 125,000 miles on it...

Epic!

That's a lot of money's worth of fuel right there

[Small Car]

Finding exotic high miles kit is quite entertaining. BCA had a new shape RS6 a couple of years old go through with over 100k on it, and the dreaded keighly trade centre had a brace of new shape RS Foci for sale with c.75k miles on them. Always pleases me to see high mile exotic kit...

[shovelheadrob]

When I was a courier I did around 275K in two & a half years in a Fiesta van, followed by 150K in the next 18 months in a MK2 Cavalier estate, over 2000 miles a week for 4 years & I still love driving!

[va1o]

Toaster Pilot said:

It'll probably have been privately owned given it's approved used stock at a main dealer so I assume it's been part exchanged (a lease car on that mileage would just go to auction and I doubt the main dealers wound touch them, unlike ex daily hire cars which are everywhere but a lot lower mileage)

A lot of main dealer stock will be sourced from auction. They can still sell it as approved used.

[Toaster Pilot]

va1o said:

Wrong - a lot of main dealer stock will be sourced from auction.

It will, but not 80k mile Picantos. Hardly going to fly off the forecourt is it?

[POORCARDEALER]

80K Picanto has driving school car written all over it (or it would have before the stickers came off)

[morgrp]

I service a 1.4 mk4 Astra that is now on 370k - it comes in every few months for a service - the guy simply will not change it - credit to the little thing - even with all those miles under its belt it really does still drive sweet as a nut - sadly the rust is starting to set in now

[Toaster Pilot]

POORCARDEALER said:

80K Picanto has driving school car written all over it (or it would have before the stickers came off)

Ooo yeah, didn't think of that actually

[CDP]

It's stiff money for something that's had so much use.

[Toaster Pilot]

CDP said:

It's stiff money for something that's had so much use.

Only 1 year unlimited / 5 year 20k miles of the warranty left too