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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Depends on the car. A Honda or Toyota should typically have less than 50 miles. Most of the ones I've bought have less than 10. Anything above 50 miles would seems excessive to me. I probably wouldn't buy a car with 200 miles unless I had no choice and was given a very big discount. [/quote]

Why would you expect Toyotas or Hondas to have fewer miles than other cars.  The reason new cars have some milage -- test drives, dealer transfers -- would apply just as much to these brands as any other, no?[/quote]

There is some variation in how different manufacturers distribute cars. Subaru had (or used to have) an odd system where they just distributed cars at random to dealers (obviously not totally random--I'm sure someone at Subaru was crunching numbers to determine how many and of which package various dealers should get). But the dealers could not order cars in particular colors or packages--they just had to wait to see what came off the boat for them, and while they could sometimes trade with other dealers while the cars were in transit, most of the trading happened on the ground and was influenced heavily by individual relationships between dealerships. Not sure if this is how they still do things--we bought ours a few years ago--but it meant their cars were more likely to have more than a few miles on them if they had bounced around to a couple of dealers in swaps. I know there are some carmakers that allow dealers to order specific cars, and I assume those arrive with almost no miles on them.[/quote]

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