Low mileage used cars

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Can anyone assist me? Just curious to know more about the cars that appear in the used car garages every so often that have a low mileage of 6.2miles, the mileage is always highlighted in orange text. Other than being a bargain for a low mileage car, does it offer you anything else? :confused:
 
I'm curious, are there any technical reasons (damage or something) why high milage cars are what appears to be avoided more or less from what i've read here.
 
I don't avoid them really, the only issue with high mileage used cars is that the cars total bhp output drops after X amount of miles, not quite sure on exact figure.
 
the cost when you want to sell a car also drops, i think.

won the minolta toyota, put about 2300 miles on it and i drop about 80,000Cr in value to sell it.
 
I think my Nissan lost about 20hp when I went over 10,000 miles with it. I can't remember the exact numbers of the hp, but I'm positive it happened at 10,000 miles.
 
Don't worry about horsepower gains and losses. that's just the engine breaking in. If you don't believe me, buy a high mileage car, do an oil change, and the horsepower that it yields after the oil change will not drop any further. In fact, the horsepower you get after an oil change on an old POS is exactly the same as a new car of the same model produces without changing the oil.

for example, A volvo estate wagon with 90k on the odometer will show X HP after an oil change, while a brand new volvo estate wagon will yield X hp before the oil change.
 
The thing is that with a 6.2 miles car you don't have do make a chassis refresh, and it cost 50 000 cr to do so. So in fact it's a brand new old car.
 
- high mileage car WITH oil change = 2-3 less/more or equal hp than low mileage WITHOUT oil change
- low mileage car WITH oil change = 10 to 30 ! more hps than oil-changed high mileage car ! meaning you start with a BIG advantage if you don't want to spend too much on boosting it or want to tune it the less possible.
This is especially true for powerful cars like the Toyota Supra RZ.

- no need to REFRESH chassis on a low mileage car ! it IS stiffer and you'll have less understeer and better braking in most cases.

also I must add that buying a low mileage 98 model for example won't necessarily give you a better car than a high mileage comparable model, in PAL vers. for example I bought a 98 Nissan 300ZX 2 seater (Z32) with 10km only because I tought it would be better than the high mileage Nissan 300ZX 2by2 (Z32)...
big mistake it was awful even with brand new chassis and 15hp more !
so keep that in mind if you're going for A-spec points sometimes buying a high mileage different version ends up a better choice.

And also sometimes you better buy a brand new stock model than buy an old low-mileage one : like the honda nsx type-r..the new model has a way better handling than you'll ever have with a used NSX type-r.
 

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