How old are your vehicles?

[cjk374]

My 1st car was a 1980 Chevy Citation, purchased at a church garage sale for $400 in 1992 (57k original miles).  It was rear-ended 2 years later (by high school kids in a 1981 Volvo), and I got $900 from the insurance company for it.

That $900 went toward the purchase of my 2nd car:  a 1983 Pontiac Grand Prix.  It had 97k original miles when I bought it in 1994.  I still own this car (I think it now has 350k miles on the body), and it has a brand-new engine in it...but the transmission went out.  My co-workers tell me I need to put 24s or 26s with spinners on it.  I kindly tell them to bite me!   

I've owned a '97 Chevy Lumina, then it was traded for a '98 Ford F-150 (killed by a deer).  Now I drive a '98 Ford Ranger (233+k miles), a 2011 Dodge Challenger (105k miles already!!  ), and my fiance' has a 2000 Saturn (187+k miles).

[Eth]

Currently I'm driving a 2010 Mazda 3 that I bough used in 2012. It has almost 58k miles currently and I'm expecting a minimum of 100k miles.

I would hope a 2010 car would make it 100,000 miles. 

I would be rather shocked if it didn't, to say the least. I own the exact same car, though mine was bought new. Currently at 49k miles.

[PHLBOS]

Current fleet

2007 Ford Mustang convertible (V6 Pony Package) - owned since Aug. 2007

1997 Ford Crown Victoria LX (w/the Handling & Performance Package) - owned since Nov. 1996

Previous vehicles:

1976 Ford LTD Landau 2-door - owned 1993-2010

1989 Chevy Caprice Classic 4-door - owned 1992-1996

1985 Mercury Grand Marquis LS 4-door - owned 1988-1992

1976 Ford LTD 4-door - owned 1985-1988

1974 Chevy Impala 4-door hardtop - owned 1984-1985

1969 Ford LTD Brougham 4-door sedan - owned 1982-1984

[ET21]

1997 Grand Am, 17 years old, only 81,000 miles 

[J N Winkler]

My cars (oldest first):

*  1978 Chevrolet Impala--owned 1992 to 1995

*  1986 Nissan Maxima--owned 1995 to 2007 (44 US states, 4 Canadian provinces, 2 Mexican states)

*  1994 Saturn SL2--owned 2011 to present

I have never owned a car that was less than nine years old when it fell into my hands.  Beginning with the Maxima, I have done tuneups with the goal of improving gas mileage, with moderate success (the Maxima broke 35.8 MPG on one tank that included a lot of high-altitude mountain driving in late summer in Colorado).  The Saturn has not yet broken 30 MPG on any tank, but I am hoping that will change soon since I have already replaced the spark plugs and PCV valve and will shortly change the thermostat and engine coolant temperature sensor.

[US71]

Currently I'm driving a 2010 Mazda 3 that I bough used in 2012. It has almost 58k miles currently and I'm expecting a minimum of 100k miles.

I would hope a 2010 car would make it 100,000 miles. 

My 2003 Dodge Caravan had 280K when I sold it.

[Brandon]

We tend to buy new and keep for a while.

Current: 2011 Dodge Caliber, 108,800 miles (and counting).  It's still on its first clutch and brakes.
Previous: 2002 Chrysler PT Cruiser, 178,000 miles - traded in on the Caliber in 2011.

Miles and depreciation mean little to us as we will be using the vehicle for quite some time.  For example, my parents' 1996 Dodge Grand Caravan lasted 16 years and 270,000 miles - bought new.

[jakeroot]

Current: 2011 Dodge Caliber, 108,800 miles (and counting).  It's still on its first clutch and brakes.

I remember having the Dodge Caliber as a rental car in Hawaii a few years ago. The thing that stuck out to me was the extremely loud door-locking mechanism. Everything else was classic Chrysler group (though that stereotype is fading with their recent models).



My family tends to move cars every few years, excluding my sister and I who are far more thrifty:

Me: 2002 Oldsmobile Bravada -- 248,000 km

Dad: '13 Toyota Camry Hybrid -- 17,000 mi
-> Previous: '11 Toyota Corolla -- unknown miles
-> Previous x2: '06 Toyota Prius -- 90,000 mi -- totaled outside St Louis (replaced with Corolla)
-> Previous x3: '03 Toyota Avalon (lemon)
-> Previous x4: '88 Subaru XT6 (his first new car)

Mom: '11 Hyundai Elantra (the first 'Limited' that our local dealer received) -- 52,000 miles
-> Previous: '08 Hyundai Veracruz -- 42,000 mi
-> Previous x2: '98 Toyota Sienna -- a colossal amount of miles
-> Previous x3: '93 Jeep Grand Cherokee -- fairly unreliable, I barely remember how many miles it had).

Sister: '02 Honda Civic Coupe  -- 105,000 mi

[Laura]

I currently own a green 2003 Chevy Cavalier sedan (named Emmie, short for Emerald) with 149,492 miles on her, which I purchased on August 26, 2011 at 89,417 miles.

The only other car I've owned was a red 2002 Chevy Cavalier coupe (named Cavy) which I donated at 149,500 miles to the Maryland School for the Blind after being in a (NBC Washington 4) newsworthy flash flood on August 14, 2011. I purchased her on May 19, 2004 with 25,900 miles on her.

Eerie coincidence with the odometers and the time of year (August and 149K miles on both cars). I am super glad that I was out of town for a week and a half earlier this month so that I didn't hit the same exact mileage in the same week (or day), especially since there were terrible flash floods here in Maryland with record rainfall on the 12th.

Currently we only own my car. Mike's car bit the dust and we went for a few days with just my car, but my father-in-law lent him his '99(?) VW Beetle for the time being, which was previously my sister-in-law's car. It has about 105K on it and Mike only uses it to go back and forth to work.