What's the mileage of your vehicle, and how often do you drive with your consulting lifestyle? Wondering whether to discard the current - well below average miles - vehicle or to continue on with it until eternity

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~90k miles. I drive about 6k miles per year, almost entirely trips out of town. I try and go for a spin every week or two just so it doesn’t sit for too long, but but the last time I used it outside of that was the beginning of the month.

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Very much so. The car is in good shape and I enjoy driving it, but I don’t really need it at all.

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😂 These guys. 2015 RR Wraith. 18k miles. Drive it on weekends. Love love love love it

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'98 Nissan with 130k. I've put less than 1k a year on it for the last 5 years. I just can't justify something new when I drive so little.

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Mine is as well! 2005 Nissan Sentra with slightly over 100k miles. Use Metromile for insurance (pay by mile) and can’t really justify having a new car…

Annual comp (including RSU/options) ~400k but still feel very middle class (as a single) in the Bay Area where nicer cars got broken into.. so why bother?

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2011 civic. 298k miles. Going for 500k

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2014 with less than 11k miles. Can walk the majority of places I go. Have to remember to drive somewhere occasionally so battery doesn't drain. Has been paid off for years, and I have no intention of buying a new vehicle in the ferseeable future.

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My battery keeps dying because I don’t drive it.

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RAV4. 145k miles. 20 years.

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Dude my 2015 RAV4 has 150K

i have a 2016 with only 50k that my partner and i share. i live in a bigger city in my state and love doing local things.

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Sold my car in October 2020. Couldn’t justify the insurance, registration, and maintenance of it just sitting there. It’s quite liberating.

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I don’t have public transportation. I’ll use boyfriend’s car if needed; otherwise rely on delivery or Uber/Lyft

I drive an imported foreign car with a manual transmission and 65k miles.

It’s a 2005, 4-beater Tacoma with two seats, no power door locks, and hand-crank windows. It spends most of its life in a park-and-fly lot and accumulates about 5k miles a year. I bought it all cash last year and man, I gotta say, no car payment is an awesome feeling - especially when you’re not enjoying a car everyday.

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Love Tacoma’s. I have a 2002 with 217k miles. Bought it for $5k all cash. Love it to death. 0 maintainence fees.

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4th gen v8 4runner with over 220K. Bought with 150K in 2017, so ~14K/year.

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105k miles. Put about 15k on per year.

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‘10 Hyundai with 73k miles. Live in a city with a train station and barely ever drive it.

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Sold my 2017 90k miles and bought a 2009 135k miles :) no more payments and now I have a weekend project to improve/maintain instead :D

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2021 with 12,000 miles. Maybe 20 miles during the week, closer to 100-200 on the weekends. I am a virtual consultant so no driving for work.

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2010 Mazda 3 with 60k miles. I maintain it well and it’s been good to me the last 12 years! Zoom zoom

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2012 Lexus rx350, 91k miles

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Looking for a ‘16-18 Macan gts tho ngl. But fuck this market

2919 with 70k on it. I drive about 2k a month.

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Don’t ruin the fun WHD

105k miles, but it’s a 2011 Honda so has a lot of life left. Drive about 8k miles per year, mostly on road trips. If you can have a paid off reliable car, keep it going until repairs/unreliability become an inconvenience

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Yea, Honda/ Toyotas are built to last.

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2006 Camry with 190k miles. Still works well and hope to replace when gets to 250k (another 3-4 years?)

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2005 Yukon. 66k miles. Bought new.

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