joshkbaker
Silverstone
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Bit of an odd question, but I've owned 2 Porsches now and I regularly look at 911s of all generations on car auctions, auto trader and everything else.
Sometimes I get the itch to look at classics, sometimes something more modern.
I currently own a ducktailed 997 C4S.
But one thing I've noticed is; there aren't ever many high mileage cars. Even 40-year-old 911s often have less than 125-150k miles on them.
Where are they all?
For example, I just looked at 997's and the highest mileage car is 133k.
It's a 15-year-old car!
It gets even worse when I look at 993s or even 964s. Frequently the cars have 30k-50k mileage and no more than 120k
So the question is, with the old saying of 70% of ALL Porsches are still on the road, where the heck are the cars that are actually being driven?
I'm also trying to stay set on driving my car regularly for a very long time.
That means in 10 years, it would have 200k miles...
Is there a law or something where you can reset the mileage if enough work has been done or it's reached a certain age? Or is it more the truth these cars just eventually die after 150K miles, or on the more optimistic side, do people that rack up the miles just never sell them?
JB
Sometimes I get the itch to look at classics, sometimes something more modern.
I currently own a ducktailed 997 C4S.
But one thing I've noticed is; there aren't ever many high mileage cars. Even 40-year-old 911s often have less than 125-150k miles on them.
Where are they all?
For example, I just looked at 997's and the highest mileage car is 133k.
It's a 15-year-old car!
It gets even worse when I look at 993s or even 964s. Frequently the cars have 30k-50k mileage and no more than 120k
So the question is, with the old saying of 70% of ALL Porsches are still on the road, where the heck are the cars that are actually being driven?
I'm also trying to stay set on driving my car regularly for a very long time.
That means in 10 years, it would have 200k miles...
Is there a law or something where you can reset the mileage if enough work has been done or it's reached a certain age? Or is it more the truth these cars just eventually die after 150K miles, or on the more optimistic side, do people that rack up the miles just never sell them?
JB