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Okay I'm freaking out here. I see people trading all the time.
I also hear these dumbnuts who say "Well I have a car with zero mileage".... What is it to care about? Does it make the car better, what?! My theory is this, it's a way to scam people, giving them a reason not to show the freakin car.

But I've heard people talk about this like it's important to have a car... In a game... That have NEVER been driven, like "Oooh I have a Civic with zero Mileage.. Wanna trade your x1?"

Give me a straight answer, why is mileage so important to some people? This is a game.
 
Snilex
Okay I'm freaking out here. I see people trading all the time.
I also hear these dumbnuts who say "Well I have a car with zero mileage".... What is it to care about? Does it make the car better, what?! My theory is this, it's a way to scam people, giving them a reason not to show the freakin car.

But I've heard people talk about this like it's important to have a car... In a game... That have NEVER been driven, like "Oooh I have a Civic with zero Mileage.. Wanna trade your x1?"

Give me a straight answer, why is mileage so important to some people? This is a game.
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First of all, it is a collector's thing. Zero mile is more rare always, when it comes to standard cars particularly.

Secondly, the zero mile cars are a guarantee of not needing engine repair, chassis adjustments, which can get pretty expensive.

Search the forum, there are a lot of threads about that.

P.S. Zero mile standard cars used to be rare, but since people can dupe tickets, you can get a lot of cars now with zero miles.
 
its not, unless your attempting to dupe the entire inventory of cars with zero miles just to have all the cars brand new.

i personally find it hilarious having a 1337 hp X1 with 10k miles on it and no oil changes
 
Diesel Pump
First of all, it is a collector's thing. Zero mile is more rare always, when it comes to standard cars particularly.
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premium cars with thousands of miles are more rare then premiums with 0 miles.
standard cars with zero miles are more rare then standars with thousands of miles
 
First, please let me ask that you change the title of this thread. Demanding an answer without reason and an "!" doesn't bode well around here.

Second, in answer to your question, having a car with 0 miles, to some people it makes it equal to winning it and no one has got the driver's seat dirty. Just my speculation.

Jerome
 
notveryhappyjac
premium cars with thousands of miles are more rare then premiums with 0 miles.
standard cars with zero miles are more rare then standars with thousands of miles
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Lol, you got some twisted logic, but yes, premiums with a lot of miles are more rare.

Also, it is even more rare a guy that wants premiums with a million miles, than a guy wanting them zero mile.
 
^ lol

0 miles is for people who want to have the "perfect garage" with every car in the game completely untouched. It's a serious waste of time.
 
Car A - 500 miles, broken in, oil change = 300hp
Car A - 50,000 miles, over-hauled, broken in = 296hp

Because in GT land, a car with more miles will have less power than a new (broken in) one, whether you rebuild it or not. Also, the more times you rebuild it, the more power you will end up losing in the long run. Cars can become "worthless" so to speak.
 
notveryhappyjac
i personally find it hilarious having a 1337 hp X1 with 10k miles on it and no oil changes
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I use the X1 as my B-Spec enduro beater. almost 11k miles! its not like we ever are going to use it in a race right? what fun is that?
 
I am not a fan of the whole 0 mile thing but I have learned to accept it and have setup a 0 mile garage just for trading purposes. I actually enjoy driving all my cars and tuning so my regular account has all my cars and my trade account mostly consists of 0 mile cars that I trade often.

I just find it hard to get the cars that I want without having a 0 miler to offer. I hate it too but I enjoy getting new cars.
 
My answer:

In GT5, the most collectible car (not rare) is the car that has been driven and with a lot of miles/kms. X1 will be up there either used by a real driver or by "bob". I wouldn't trade my high mileage car to anyone even to a 0 mileage 0 switch or to that DLC car. Not even share it now (update 1.06 the borrow opportunity should have an approval from owner first).


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Snilex
Okay I'm freaking out here. I see people trading all the time.
I also hear these dumbnuts who say "Well I have a car with zero mileage".... What is it to care about? Does it make the car better, what?! My theory is this, it's a way to scam people, giving them a reason not to show the freakin car.

But I've heard people talk about this like it's important to have a car... In a game... That have NEVER been driven, like "Oooh I have a Civic with zero Mileage.. Wanna trade your x1?"

Give me a straight answer, why is mileage so important to some people? This is a game.
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If you're trying to get a car to enter an event with special conditions, getting a 0 mile one guarantees you it hasn't been modified in a way you can't undo - like weight or engine mods.
 
ChaddingtonB
If you're trying to get a car to enter an event with special conditions, getting a 0 mile one guarantees you it hasn't been modified in a way you can't undo - like weight or engine mods.
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You can mod a car with zero miles on it
adding mods will not add miles
 
IRL I care about mileage and the general condition of the vehicle. In a video game where I can make $900Kan hour, I couldnt care what condition or milage of the car lol.
 
Some people care more about collecting cars then driving them. To me, a car collection is useless if you never drive the cars you collected. Oh wait some people don't work hard for their cars, they dupe them.
 
I really don't care why...its obvious: they are OCD bat$#!+ insane.

What I really want to know is the demographic that does this. Are they all closet NAMBLA members in their mid thirties with post secondary education and white collar jobs that live in the suburbs? Tweens living in mom's basement? Kids (unlikely)? Mass murderers (more likely)?

Alright zero milers: I want to know who you are.
 
Snilex
Okay I'm freaking out here. I see people trading all the time.
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Chill out, buddy. It's just an internet forum for a video game.

I also hear these dumbnuts who say "Well I have a car with zero mileage".... What is it to care about? Does it make the car better, what?! My theory is this, it's a way to scam people, giving them a reason not to show the freakin car.
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You don't need to do an engine rebuild or chassis re-alignment on a car which hasn't been driven.

But I've heard people talk about this like it's important to have a car... In a game... That have NEVER been driven, like "Oooh I have a Civic with zero Mileage.. Wanna trade your x1?"
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People attatch different values to different things, depending on their own views of them. Some people think that everyone has an X2010 (not an "x1") so therefore the car doesn't have much worth. If everyone on the planet had a full diamond mine in their backyard, how much would you pay for diamonds? If you had the only orange tree in the world, how much would you charge for oranges?

Give me a straight answer, why is mileage so important to some people? This is a game.
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I just did. Also, try using the Search function, this question has been answered multiple times in the past.
 
jedi09
Some people care more about collecting cars then driving them. To me, a car collection is useless if you never drive the cars you collected. Oh wait some people don't work hard for their cars, they dupe them.
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Word! I might be the only one but I don't feel like I earn the cars I have, not even the cars I buy myself which is most of the cars I have, since I just send them over to my other account and send them back so I don't lose my credits on it. The only car though I think I've earned is the Corvette C5-R which gave me a hard time finding someone willing to trade it.

This dupe-thing kind of ruin that fun part of trading cars abit.
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Thank you for a that answer. :)
 

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