In a large pre-owned car market like Dallas/Fort Worth, it's interesting to note that one of the strongest driving forces for determining the value of a used car is mileage - miles on the "clock". In my experience a one-year old car w/28,000 miles on it will looked on as damn near equal in value when compared to a two-year old alike model with the same mileage.
Mileage is the baseball bat dealers use to beat you down with their low-ball offer on your trade-in, and conversely it is treated like an offering at an altar when that same dealer is trying to sell it to another buyer.
The reason I bring this up is more about my curiosity of how other consumers think about mileage. Before my '08 Tornado Red Rabbit, I had not kept a car past 35,000-40,000 miles on it for over 20 years. Maybe it was an autoimmune response to how lousy reliability was in American cars in the late-80's, early 90's, who knows.
But times change, economics change, and I ended keeping my Rabbit for over 34 months, and accumulated <GASP> 56,000 miles on it before I traded for my new '11 Tornado Red GTI. I intend to watch the odometer on my GTI go into the six-digit realm over the next several years.
Now I'm just wondering what the odometer says on your GTI right now.
SteveTX
Mileage is the baseball bat dealers use to beat you down with their low-ball offer on your trade-in, and conversely it is treated like an offering at an altar when that same dealer is trying to sell it to another buyer.
The reason I bring this up is more about my curiosity of how other consumers think about mileage. Before my '08 Tornado Red Rabbit, I had not kept a car past 35,000-40,000 miles on it for over 20 years. Maybe it was an autoimmune response to how lousy reliability was in American cars in the late-80's, early 90's, who knows.
But times change, economics change, and I ended keeping my Rabbit for over 34 months, and accumulated <GASP> 56,000 miles on it before I traded for my new '11 Tornado Red GTI. I intend to watch the odometer on my GTI go into the six-digit realm over the next several years.
Now I'm just wondering what the odometer says on your GTI right now.
SteveTX