^this!

I'm surprised you only have that much miles on your 2010 considering you live here in Southern California & don't have a DD car!

 

Well I just think it's dumb that I'm being penalized because I bought my car to actually drive it. By penalized I mean when I go to sell it I will have to accept less because of all the people who think their Evo is a show car or some kind of rare exotic. Considering my car is an '08, 50k is well under the national average for yearly mileage, but compared to other Evo's it's actually kind of high.

 

DD the Evo!

My last VIII had 160k miles on the factory motor!
I DD my X MR 65 miles daily...

For me it feels so secured driving it versus my former Corolla and obviously it's FUN!
Plus, put in a nice stereo for the commute...

 

Had mine about 3 weeks. 1.5k miles already. 60 miles round trip to work. I don't really see the point of having a fun car you don't drive? Sure, you put miles on it, and sure it'll sell for less but answer me these questions:

1- Are you -really- gonna sell it? They don't make it anymore. Why would you sell an increasingly rare car?

2- Are the miles worth it? Are they fun? You trade miles for fun. I have fun on my way to work in the evo but not in other cars. I could buy a beater but I'd never use it. Why drive the POS when I can take the evo?

3- Why did you really buy an evo? To let it sit and stare at it or to drive it?

You answer those and I think you'll have figured out what to do.

 

People who daily the evo seem confused lol, it's like they got the wrong car for the propose they'r using it. They Park it in front of they'r workplace from 9-5, let it sit as people passing eye-rape it, go home, go to sleep, wake up, repeat....LAME.

 

I daily drive my MR I bought it 1 year ago.I bought it with 27k miles I have doubled my miles in that time.these cars were made to be driven.the added need to do services early is one bad thing with putting so many miles on your car, but honestly a crappie dd corolla or something is misery on wheels.

 

Depends on how you drive it. I live in a valley, all my commutes are country roads over mountains. No city traffic, no stop lights, lots of passing zones. Nuff said.

 

Get a fuel efficient beater and keep the Evo. Thats what I did, that way you wont have to worry about some punk messing with your car while its parked 8+ hours a day, and save on wear and tear

 

For the year, your mileage is pretty low.

No matter what car you drive you are going to accept less the higher miles you have on it.

People who treat their vehicles like a "show car" should expect to get a lot more money out of them don't you think?

 

Yeah but the Evo isn't a race car. Not in stock form at least. Anyone who says that is fooling themselves.

Who cares about the value after your done with it? I don't see what the point of trying to keep the miles low for the next owner.


No you're doing the right thing. I daily drive mine all year, sure its gonna get some wear and tear, and will depreciably only slightly more as if I didn't but that doesn't bother me. The Evo is a regular car, and should be driven as such.

 

You're right, it's more of a midsize family sedan

I see plenty of reasons in keeping the miles low, in a year when it sells it will be in far better shape, have lower miles, and be worth substantially more as a result.

Like I said though, if you keep your car for the long haul it doesn't make the slightest bit of difference because you aren't worried about resale.

 

I would love to get a cheap RWD bmw or something to keep the miles off my Evo. But my reasons are I barely make enough to own this car with maintenance, tires, everything else that makes this car actually kinda expensive. That and I ****ing HATE door dings, of which I seem to get one every other day. lol

 

This pretty much sums it up op. If you need to resale (you probably can't afford the car anyways) and should probably sell it soon and buy a cheaper car, but if you don't intend on ever selling the car, just rack the miles up. We don't know your financial situation, so its hard for us to give advice.

I daily my 2011 MR and do about 10k miles a year. Has shopping cart dings, tar on roof and scratches from bicycles, however it doesnt matter to me cause I expected people to be *******s and the evo x isn't a supercar.

 

I DD my Evo everyday. Work, groceries, it does it all. I've thought about getting a beater but realize that's a few thousand bucks closer to paying off my Evo sooner.

 

I'm keeping mine until it costs more to fix it than it does to buy a nice used one. Or until they come out with them again. The Mirage went away, then came back, no reason the Evo can't... as long as Mitsu is still around, anyway.

Besides, keeping a few thousand miles off the Evo is great. But that probably means about $1k more in resale. So, you are making the evo worth more but are still out the same amount of money, maybe more. If you buy a $2k beater and keep $1k worth of miles off your evo you actually lost $1k.