Daniel Macintyre of Key Words reports on how to calculate the Age of your Car:
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According to my co-workers, the rule of thumb for translating the age of your automobile into human terms is as follows:
take the mileage and divide it by the four digit year. For example, if you have 20,000 miles on your 2000 car then it's 10 years old. If, however, you have 500,000 miles on the same car, then it's two hundred fifty years old and you should be counting your blessings if it still runs at all.
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To a first approximation you can always divide the mileage by 2000. The exact year of the car will only affect the second or third decimal point.
Based on our car is about 65 years old, and our van is a young 19 years old.
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2 comments:
As Indiana Jones once said "It's not the years, it's the mileage" but he was talking about humans!
My poor van 198,000 miles on it. Thank goodness it still runs. (fingers crossed).
A lot of well made cars can last a long time, if you take good care of them.
Our analysis is it is cheaper to maintain a car than to buy a new car every couple years.
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