Wanted: low mileage D2/D3 S8

[RICKY D]

Originally Posted by tintin

Well, I paid £18k for mine 12 years ago, have spent about £7k in "capital maintenance" (basically Mackies + MJ) and have been offered £10k for it a couple of times (speculatively, admittedly - I wouldn't expect to get quite that for it...).

So that works out at deprecation of ~ £1.5k per annum. which I don't think is much really, compared to what that would be for most comparable performance cars.

For me, lower miles would matter if I was going to do a lot of miles, but not if I wasn't - Herman had ~23k when I bought him, and I then did about 30k a year for each of the following 3 years (work car...), but then it dropped off, so now it's becoming "low mileage" according to some adverts anyway

I would say that’s very reasonable depreciation based on those figures. Far less than anything newer anyway.

Mileage is such a sticking point for used cars and I really do think it’s more of a British thing sometimes. The yanks and the continental Europeans in my experience do not seem to have the same reservations as us Brits...admittedly a bit of a broad brush statement but a a lot of my friends have similar views. For me a D2 with ~150k is ok. Less than 100k now is getting very hard to find.

The youngest D2 is nearly 20 years old now and if I was in the market for one (again) anything from 130k to 170k, or even more would be considered if the car was well taken care of. I’ve experienced cars with starship mileage that drive better than lower mileage cars and I’m sure others on here have had similar experiences.