I was surfing around Facebook and came across a somewhat unique muscle car group - many of the folks there are original owners. This made me think of the Evolution community. How many of us are the original owners of our cars?

FWIW, I am.

 

Having seen other posts where people talked about ownership, I'd say about 20%. I'm an original owner.

 

2nd owner here. Never found out who original owner was but i thank him. Kept the evo stock and clean thru 44k miles. Still even had the smell of the recaro/brand new car scent.

 

Hi, Barney. 20% would be a great. I figured the muscle car folks had us beat, if anything, due to dispersion. There were around 20K Evolutions originally imported into the USDM. Compare that to the number of, say, Camaros produced in the first generation and we're talking ~100K cars in a 2 year period.

 

I'm an original owner too! 60K miles...

RedAustinIX

 

Unless you die first or total the car, everyone eventually becomes a seller. So, as the sands of time run that 20% or whatever the real number is, is going lower.

My car is 14 years old and so far it has not had any issues. I do have the vibration in 5th gear (almost since new) but that is about to go away. I'm replacing the transmission with a brand new one. I thought about repairing. The TSB says it needs a new input shaft and 5th gear but on a transmission with over 100K there would be other parts that show wear. I wonder how far the old transmission would really go the way it is.

I watch these automotive repair videos on youtube. The wiring and computers on the newer cars is nuts. So, you buy and park this wiring monstrosity in you attached garage and hope the house doesn't burn down. I want to keep what I've got.

 

2nd owner....but that's not my fault, I couldn't buy the car here lol. Owned it since 08' though.

 

I am the original owner of a stock 2003 Blue By You EVO8.

 

I'm an original owner. 125k miles now, and the car has treated me pretty well overall. Only issues so far were that I had to replace the ACD pump, the radiator, and the turbo (which was my fault).

 

I'm the original owner of my Evo as well (135K miles and still going strong). I just put in a new radiator and have had to replace the ACD pump as well. Other than those things, only consumables (belts / fluids / brakes / tires). Original clutch too!

 

original owner! The evo has treated me well! Right around 77K, no issues what so ever!

 

Original owner as well, maybe 68 or 69k. Pretty much stopped driving after turbo swap and the battery is almost always dead.

 

Original owner of my 2003 Evo 8. 57,000 miles and no issues.

 

OG owner too.... 21k miles and counting!

 

Thanks very much, guys, for responding. Good to see there some original owners around. I'll likely ask the question again in a few years.

My own ownership experience has been essentially event-free. The steering wheel started peeling about three weeks after buying the car - some may recall a number of IX SEs having this issue - and it was replaced under warranty. Nothing else. Literally. The car has about 45K miles on its clock, likely a quarter of them at WOT - no rattles, no squeaks. My IX is virtually stock and it's the single most reliable car I've had in 35 years behind the wheel. To this day, firing it up never fails to be an event. Can't tell ya how much I love this thing. All the best to everyone.