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What's the highest mileage car you've seen for sale at a dealership? I stumbled across this today. An Audi dealer is trying to sell a 2000 Audi A4 with 359k miles on it. Seriously? Shouldn't they have just sold it at auction especially since it's an Audi dealership? This is supposedly a luxury vehicle we're talking about here. I'd even be surprised to see a a Ford truck with over 200k miles for sale at a dealership.
No freakin' way. There's only so far I'll allow the "as long as it's maintained properly" thing to sway my decision favorably, and I'm a big fan of buying used. The car I bought before this had 120K on it. Mileage isn't everything, but it is a factor, IMO.
What's the highest mileage car you've seen for sale at a dealership? I stumbled across this today. An Audi dealer is trying to sell a 2000 Audi A4 with 359k miles on it. Seriously? Shouldn't they have just sold it at auction especially since it's an Audi dealership? This is supposedly a luxury vehicle we're talking about here. I'd even be surprised to see a a Ford truck with over 200k miles for sale at a dealership.
If it had 150K miles on it, or if it was another make, it probably would have gone to the auction, or at least relegated to the wholesale lot.
My guess is that they're keeping it around as a novelty. Having a very high-mileage example of the brand they sell in good shape on the lot is a pretty good testimonial, and I'm sure they put nothing in it when they took it in on trade so it's really not costing them anything to keep it around. If it convinces just a couple of people to buy an Audi they will probably make more than they would wholesaling it.
Eventually they will decide that it's served it's purpose and get tired of moving it around and will ship it off, assuming nobody comes along and buys it.
I've seen several Pontiac Vibes (Toyota Matrix twin) with over 200K on dealer lots when I was looking. If they were maintained well, they will have another 100K of use in them easy. One had about 50 Carfax records showing every oil changed done on it, and it was well priced. It sold quickly. I ended up buying a 207K mile one that looks as good as my son's 72K mile one and runs just as well, but from a private seller.
Impressive... I think the 'limo taxi' Mercedes we rented in Malaysia might have been this guy's brother! (No room for luggage, 'Boot' was full of spare parts. oh... "Sorry, Air Con not working today" It was only 35C and sweltering humidity (as usual). for a 6 hr ride through the rubber plantations and mtns...)
Here is a Studebaker I drove with 3m miles (850 miles every night through REMOTE WYO, snow / blizzards REALLY dangerous driving weather 9+ months / yr) //www.city-data.com/forum/membe...lion-miles.jpg
That was FUN!!! (most enjoyable (adventuresome) job I ever had).
Gotta LOVE the adventures (detours) in life!
(high mileage award @155k? )
Of my 34 cars... I have only 1 with less that 155k miles (DW's motorhome) Maybe my average is 260k, but I will surely get 1m+ from some of my TDI's and CTD's
(unless I croak first).
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Show the 'apparent' reliability to NEW customers.
I have seen this type of 'display' at Volvo and Toyota dealers.
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