Curious - What would be an acceptable annual mileage if you were looking for a Vantage .....

Reason I ask, thinking about doing a cross country bucket list run next summer with some friends and their cars ...

Miami to SFO ... And all point in between

And at some point need to sell the car and don't want to have excessive mileage ....

 

Honestly, don't worry about it. Yes, some people are stuck in the past and paranoid about mileage, but its not a real issue with these modern cars. It will depreciate more with mileage, but it will depreciate anyway, so why not actually have fun with it?

 

Hey Jay- I'm with you. Enjoy the car !!

 

Totally agree with you guys ..... Life is way too short and it really would be an amazing journey ..

Its a 2013 with 6k on the clock now ..... figure 4k miles across from Atlantic to Pacific ...

Last year we did DC to Miami via the Blue Ridge and it was a great week ...

Thinking - MIA - New Orleans - Austin - Sante Fe - Telluride - Park City - Tahoe - Yosemite - SFO ......

 

Mileage be damned! It's a car for f's sake. Enjoy it, unlike the mileage-conscious F-car owners who want to keep their wives pristine and unused for the future husband to enjoy.

 

While I basically agree - You have to admit that in the back of all our minds is the time we need to sell...

There really is an annual mileage number where a buyer will move to the next car or you would have to discount the price to move it ....

My guess is somewhere over +5k miles a year and the car gets exponentially harder to sell...

 

While I appreciate the attitude here ("a car should be driven") the bottom line is that higher mileage will reduce value and you'll feel it when you sell. If you're okay with that, then go for it. It all comes down to balancing enjoyment with cost.

A further thought: I'm not saying it's happening here, but I've noticed that people who post on the Ferrari forum always encourage others to put lots of miles on their cars but I suspect they too are reluctant to put a lot of miles on their own cars.

 

Well considering I bought one of my Esprits new and put almost 100,000 miles in the first 7 years, I guess I'm not the norm. But, then again, I don't buy cars to sell them.

Oh, I also out 10,000 miles per year on the V8V. Keep in mind that neither of those cars is a daily driver and I never take them to work.

 

This won the internet

 

I do about 8000 miles per year in my V8V.

Calculate the total cost per mile of buying a new car, keeping it 5 years, and putting 10,000 miles on it vs putting 40,000 miles on it. Then ask, why am I not driving it?

If you want a car not to drive, then buy something like a low mileage DB5.

 

Interesting thread.
From what I see an Aston depreciates at almost the same rate no matter what the mileage. When it comes to selling the low mileage vehicle will sell first. I agree that you need to drive your vehicle but you might get bored of it if it's your DD. In Canada we typically store the cars over the winters which keeps the mileage low.
It's ridiculous to have a car depreciate 100k and only get driven for 3000 miles (I have seen cars like these advertised). That's alot of money per mile.

 

Not sure I follow your post but the fact is that the car with 40,000 miles on it will have depreciated more than the car with 10,000 miles on it. The more the car costs, the greater the difference in terms of depreciation. As I said, if you're okay with this, great. My point was that the OP should just consider the implications when making his decision.

As for me and my car, I have decided that I'm going to drive it when I want, but I'm going to make sure the miles I put on are the car are "good" miles. Good miles for me are fun miles, like when driving through the mountains or at the track. For me, miles driving the car back and forth to the office in rush hour traffic are wasted miles because I don't enjoy them.

 

I agree that higher mileage will depreciate a car more - but I honestly don't see it being as much of a factor on a car like an Aston that already suffers from pretty bad depreciation. The higher mileage may scare off some buyers, but I think the color combinations and options are going to be more important than mileage on a modern Aston.

 

If you don't think mileage matters for an Aston, just ask a dealer what they'll give you for your higher mileage Aston. The first thing they'll bring up in negotiating a trade-in is the mileage. Every car, especially an exotic, depreciates more with higher miles. Again, as long as you're okay with that, putting on miles isn't a problem for you.

 

If the difference in resale value is about $5000, but I get to drive the car 30,000 miles more then it's worth it to me. But if we're talking about a $50K hit in depreciation, then that's a different story and I probably would even want the car in the first place.