After searching for a low-miles Acura TL manual, I stumbled across just that.
It's a 2006 Acura TL, manual trans, and the dealer says it has under 1,000 miles.
How does/did that happen? Would you even entertain buying a luxury sedan that's 10 years old and has been driven less than 100 miles a year?
We could just run the VIN but I think speculation is more fun.
Retired person who only used it as a sunny day cruiser?
Maybe the maid couldn't drive a stick.
Someone was suddenly unable to drive after buying and it sat in the garage?
Grand mother in law did this. Her old car got wrecked, and instead of getting the same old boat she was used to, her son bought her a Saturn she couldn't understand and wouldn't drive. In the nearly ten years she owned it, I dont think she put 3,000 miles on it.
My '90 Acura was a one-owner car until I bought it last Fall. PO kept a fuel log book. In the first 16 years, it averaged 6k miles a year. From '06-'15, it went a total of 9k miles, about 1k/year.
She lived 5 miles r/t from work and retired in '06.
bastomatic wrote: After searching for a low-miles Acura TL manual, I stumbled across just that. It's a 2006 Acura TL, manual trans, and the dealer says it has under 1,000 miles. How does/did that happen? Would you even entertain buying a luxury sedan that's 10 years old and has been driven less than 100 miles a year? We could just run the VIN but I think speculation is more fun.
No idea how that happens, but I would buy that in a heartbeat unless they are charging an unworldly premium for it.
Some older people drive to Church on Sunday and nowhere else.
Yup, came across an 85 porsche 911 I thought could be had for cheap at a local auction last year. Last time it had been inspected/registered was 2001, car had 27k on it. Older man had it, got a bum knee or something and stopped driving 5 speed, left it in the garage then passed and wife never touched it. Word got out to some collectors and it went for nearly $40k
Brand new 1988 Fiero GT:
http://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/vehicledetails.xhtml?zip=30021&endYear=2006&sortBy=mileageASC&showcaseOwnerId=96641&startYear=1981&listingType=used&firstRecord=150&listingTypes=used&maxMileage=15000&searchRadius=0&showcaseListingId=422737062&listingId=405054210&Log=0
My friends uncle (and I could be getting this story wrong or it could have changed in the 5 or so years since I heard it) had a late 80's S10 that was the work truck. In about 98 he bought a new, white S10. This was the church truck. It literally only went to church and back on Sundays. My friend said in 2006 when he visited, the truck had 1,300 miles on it.
Maybe since then the work truck has been retired and the church truck was replaced with a new one and became a work truck, but there are people out there who just don't drive.
pinchvalve wrote: Some older people drive to Church on Sunday and nowhere else.
One of my customers drives her car (a Quad 4 engined Grand Am) maybe 100-120 miles per year. She only uses it to drive to the store two blocks away, and to the pharmacy three blocks away, maybe once a week but only if the weather is nice.
I believe it has 16k on it now, on a >20yr old car. It's perfect but about twice a year we have to go and jump start it, then bring it in toe charge the battery. No electricity in her garage otherwise we'd install a battery tender. (We put them in so the plug faces through the grille - if and when they forget to unplug it and back away, it just unplugs)
Mystery solved : the dealership missed a couple zeroes on the odometer
That isn't a very interesting end to the story.
Dang, that's not nearly as exciting as I had hoped. 
My cousin only lives two miles from work. His parents are his only local relatives and they are also about two miles away. He had a Chevy S-10 that he bought new. He replaced it when it rusted in half. At the time, it had about 35,000 miles on it.
My son bought a 91 Sidekick a few years ago with 8000 km/5000 mi on it for $2500. It's his daily driver.
iadr wrote: Towed behind a motorhome should still rack up miles, so I can't figure that one.
Not if it was dollied with the front wheels up.
Mrs. Duke's 2004 TSX only just has 60,000 on it, and that's doing everything we can to even out the mileage compared to my car. If she just drove it to work, it would only have about 20,000 on it.
Wife's uncle bought a Buick new in 1962. Since he had a work truck he only drove it on weekends. When he died in the 70's his sister(wife's aunt) inherited it. She was retired and only used it to go to the grocery store(3 blocks) and doctor's office(4 blocks).
When she quit driving a couple years ago I sold the car for her. It had 35K miles on it. And the oil had been changed once a year (52 times) since new.
In 3 years ive put just under 3k miles on my wagon. Only average 2k a year between my 2 vehicles. If we leave town we normally take my wifes car. 10 years of ownership and we have only put 100k on it.
My grandfather bought a new C1500 in 1990. Nice truck, but nothing fancy - 2wd, 350, tow package, two-tone paint. He used it to make hardware store runs and to tow the camper..which they stopped using a couple years later. When he died in '09, the truck had 13k miles on it. I think my uncle's still got it in the barn.
since I bought my little E36 M3 box 97 200sx 6 mths ago I think I have maybe less than 600 miles on it. It's nice living a couple of miles from work. I do need to get out of the city more obviously. With the nice weather coming on I'll try.
Things change in people's lives. I've seen ridiculously low mileage on cars owned by people who are off every week on business flights. My grandfather-in-law used to do logging during the fall and winter, and they would summer up in New York, so they really racked up the miles on their vehicles. He maintained it religiously, but his beat-up work truck was heading for a half million miles, and their shiny new Tahoe XL was pegging in 25000 a year. Then he had a heart attack, and spent the rest of his days tethered to an oxygen tank. His son drives his own ranger pickup exclusively, and the daughter only rides in newer vehicles, so the work truck is frozen in time at 435000, and probably still runs like new. The Tahoe went from a three year old vehicle with 75000, to a ten year old vehicle with 75000...
My grandmother had an ~07/08ish Camry that had something under 10,000 (maybe even under 5,000) miles at the time my mom wrecked it around 3 years back. There was a big debate in the family at the time as to whether Grandma should even replace the car, since we all knew the day was soon approaching when she would lose her driving privileges (Alzheimer's), but she wanted another car and so she bought another Camry.
This past October, the day finally came to take her keys away. Mileage on the new Camry? Right around 300. Hadn't even gone through a full tank of gas in three years.
My grandmother once special ordered a Valiant ('68?) with a 426 hemi, you know, so she had enough power to pass. I still remember it. It was a goldish color 4 door with hubcaps and skinny wheels.
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