Can anyone please explain why ?
Le Mans Master
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I'll buy 'em from you with low miles, put the miles on, and buy another.
Thanks for keeping my future car in great condition. It's like free storage.
Racer
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I put about 3k a year on mine, and thats just driven on nice days. I could understand putting more if it was a daily driver, but i dont need it to be. Plus the vette is great on nice days, but my other cars are much more confortable to drive around back and forth to work. to each thier own
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Bought my 99 in 06 for 23k and it was in top shape.
Now it has 65k
I drive it almost every day, only snow and ice stops me
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Drifting
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Well for me, I just drive it on nice days. Because when its paid for, i want it to last a long long time. I will never beable to afford one again. If you have or make alot of money, then i guess you wouldent care about the miles because you could can have a different one all the time. Just keep it nice and when its paid for, i will have something. And I will have the title.
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I hear Obama is considering a C5 Mileage Czar to make sure C5 owners drive their cars no more than 15k miles/yr. and no less than 5k miles/yr.
He had better do it soon, as a completely new Congress is about to be voted in.
But seriously, many of us have businesses that keep us so busy that we only have weekends for driving our cars.
Rickman
He had better do it soon, as a completely new Congress is about to be voted in.
But seriously, many of us have businesses that keep us so busy that we only have weekends for driving our cars.
Rickman
This is my preference on how I choose to own the car I paid for. However, if the OP wants to provide me a nice down payment, I will be happy to buy another Vette and drive it the way he wants me to.
I do have friends who also drive Corvettes. They drive them everyday and then trade to the latest and greatest every 3 years. I personally don't like car payments and enjoy owning my Corvette.
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I split milage up between all my vehicles because they need to last me a LONG time. They are all payed for and can't afford and don't want a new car every other year. You can have fun with a car and take care of it at the same time. But I think everyones situation is different and everyone has the right to do as they wish,there is on right or wrong answer.
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Oh! Oh! Oh! I can answer that. It is to enjoy going into the garage in the morning to read the paper, have coffee and look at the nice machines surrounding me (11).
I do put about 1,500K per year on them and over twenty K a year on the DD. That's about 40K a year and that's enough for me.
I do put about 1,500K per year on them and over twenty K a year on the DD. That's about 40K a year and that's enough for me.
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I beat the crap out of my '99 every single day (except when its broken....
)
Nothing puts a smile on my face like hearing it scream over 6000 rpm's. I can have the worst day, walk out of work and see my car in the parking lot and be smiling ear to ear anticipating the drive home. I'm a driver, and I've built my car to be driven....very, very hard.
)Nothing puts a smile on my face like hearing it scream over 6000 rpm's. I can have the worst day, walk out of work and see my car in the parking lot and be smiling ear to ear anticipating the drive home. I'm a driver, and I've built my car to be driven....very, very hard.
Safety Car
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From: Frederick, Maryland
Im with you man, I bought the vette to drive it like the performance machine it is. Why I see these older older men driven C6Z06's like theyre a Boss hoss cadillac, I have no idea haha Why buy a 505hp vette and drive slow? My vert pics up fine with the 350hp it has, the extra 155hp is just cushion room? 
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please no one take this comment in a means to disrespect, Im definitely not trying to get on anyone/everyones bad side by any means.
edit:
please no one take this comment in a means to disrespect, Im definitely not trying to get on anyone/everyones bad side by any means.
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For example:
I also drive a Cadillac CTS(love it to death), one day I noticed a young girl driving the same car beside me at a light, but she was smoking in it. Wanna know my first thought? Was to get out of mine and yank her out and cuss at her of how she doesnt deserve to drive in a car that nice and explain how a person who respects their car,respects themselves.
This Cadillac Isnt the high end, Show off, OMG kind price cadillac, Its a beautiful sedan that I love. If I have that kind of love for just a car I drive and to get that upset over someone driving the same car, shows what loving something can affect the way you think.
I dont blame the dude for wondering, BUT they just love a clean, low mile car, and more miles and the feel like they're hurting the resale or lessoning the value. I personally dont think theyre using the car to its meant potential but hey, their loss not mine haha Im the one with a smile on my face
better yet, they could equally have the same smile as us who drive the hell out of them, its all a matter of perspective IMO
Either way, WE all own vettes
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