Guys,

I've seen a lot of posts recently with comments about high mileage cars or low mileage cars, the benefit of getting a '07 car with 20k on the odometer rather than 5k. There a a lot of arguments both pro and con about how much mileage should your AM be driven annually. It appears from my non scientific observations here that our cars for the most part are not driven many miles each year, not as much as the average owner puts on his 911...

How many miles do you drive your car annually?

When is enough, enough.... to try to hold resale at a reasonable value relative to production date assuming of course it's nicely optioned and properly maintained?

 

I put about 7~10k per year. Not too worried about resale value, I think it's bottomed out.

 

About 8000 per year on my Vantage. Would be more if it snowed less.

 

Probably 1500-2000 at this rate if I'm lucky (probably less). I think the astons have bottomed in value. I doubt they will drop below the 60k mark, its simple too nice looking of a car for it to drop below that level (retail price).
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Agree with Jay, I got my new one in May, put over 8,500 km and figure I'll average 10,000 km a year.

My first AM was driven only 2500 to 3,000 km a year (due a insanely busy work schedule) and I had every single problem you can imagine. Last year I went away for 7 months & my daily car ended up having all kinds of weird problems when I returned. Therefore, I'm in the strong belief the more you drive the car, the better it becomes and less problems you'll have.

 

I'm pretty sure it'll drop below 60. You only have to look at how much the DB9 or DB7 have depreciated, as a percentage, to get an indication of where the vantage will bottom at. I reckon it'll be in the 50's in 3 years max.

 

Hey....that's not very much...

You've been doing a lot of work on your car... why do you drive it so infrequently?

 

I put on about 3000 miles per year. That's weekends when the weather is nice (I am in a southern climate) and one or two roadtrips per year.

 

I haven't owned mine for a full year yet but it will have 8K-10K miles on it and I intend to keep averaging that amount per year. I use it as a nice weather, weekend only car. I'm not concerned with resale as I never intend to sell the car. It will be awesome 40 years from now having an "old school" convertible Aston

 

8K in first year, I DD it to work, but work is very close ;-) I refuse to have a garage queen!

 

I prefer quality of miles, not quantity of miles

Its a weekend toy that only goes out when weather is good (its never seen a drop of rain). When I do take it out, its at WOT a good 80% of the time on mainly curvy quiet back roads with very little traffic.

The Mods are for my own personal enjoyment, I enjoy the modding process both from a learning standpoint and from a driving enjoyment standpoint as well. To me its money well spent.

The modding process will officially start soon once I return from my travels. ECU should hopefully be done soon after I return.

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probably the best way to own a vantage (maintenance-wise).

 

I generally put 4K miles on whatever garage queen I have at the moment. It's a delicate balancing act for me though. Buy new and lose 40 grand in depreciation in the first three years. Buy used with 10K miles or so and in three years it has 22K miles and no one will touch it. Exotics are mileage sensitive and that's the problem with them. Most are not going to buy your car with 22K when there are a dozen others for sale with 4K-7K miles. Couple that with almost no warranty and we're playing a pretty risky game here. Unless of course you have so much money that losing 50K is no problem for you. But how many times can you keep taking those kind of losses?

 

First, you can't buy a car worrying about how much money you are loosing. If you are, you are spending too much on the car.

Second, if you really take a look at the used prices of the recent Astons, there's not a huge drop-off in price between low mileage cars and "normal" (8 to 10 k miles per year) cars.

Third, if you are not going to buy a car to drive it, buy a painting. Its easier to hang on the wall and doesn't go anywhere either.

 

Could not agree with Jay more on all accounts. Well said.

I put about 5k/yr, but would be more if I did not have a couple others. Wonderful car and I plan to keep it for as long as it will last. This is one of those rare cars IMO that will look just as good 30 years from now as today.