Lowest miles per year on a car?

In 1992 I purchased my first car, a 1965 Land Rover. I bought it from a farmer who never really liked it for some reason and hardly ever used it. When I got it there were 12692 miles on the clock and it was still wearing its original tyres. (barely any wear, but cracked with age!) The MOT certificates going back many years and the original condition convinced me that the mileage was genuine. I was a poor uni student at the time so I barely put 3000 miles on it a year, and then it sat on my drive for years before I sold it a couple of years back with just over 26k on it in just over 40 years. (I still miss that car!)

We have just the two cars:
1994 Saturn SC2 - 84,000 = 5250/yr
1997 Mercury - 58,000 = 4461/yr

Which pretty much explains why we are in no hurry to buy a new car to replace either - firstly, we don’t care about cars other than getting us from point A to point B and lastly, both are long since paid for and run just fine - and look about as good as they did when we bought them. Plus, insurance and registration are cheap now.

Back in 2000 I wanted to get a 2-seater convertible sports car. Wound up getting a Toyota Spyder. Since this is my back up/fun car, I don’t use it often for daily commuting. It has only 50k miles, or about 5k/year.

My current car (2000 Chevy Blazer) has about 130,000 miles on it. However, My office is less than 3 miles from my home, and I currently put about 2000 - 3000 miles per year on it.

Word around the campfire is they’re going to move us to a different location :frowning: which is about 25 miles away from my home. At the horrible 14 miles to the gallon my Blazer gets, I figure my new commute will cost me over $10/day. Earlier today with more exact numbers I came up with a cost estimate of over $3000 for me to have to commute to downtown Atlanta from Roswell. That’s not even factoring in wear and tear on a 10 year old vehicle.

I bought my 1994 Ford Capri (US:Mercury Capri) new and it currently has about 58,000km on the clock so that’s, what, 2,266 miles per year on average. It was never our main car though.

1992 Pontiac Grand Am, purchased in 1999 with just barely over 100,000 miles on it. It was totaled in a accident in 2007, and at the time had 106,000 miles. During those years it was my wife’s only car, she just doesn’t drive much.

It works out to less than 1,000 per year.

I’m certainly not in the running for anything here. I tend to drive about 20,000 miles per year, but that is split between two cars (a car and a pickup truck, technically). It’s nowhere near a 50/50 split. The truck gets the lion’s share of the miles. The car (a Cadillac) gets maybe 2000 miles per year.

However, I also have a car that is basically a 1960 Beetle that was converted to look like a 1929 Mercedes in the late 70s. I’ve had the car for 5 years and I’ve put 26 miles on it, which works out to just over 5 miles per year. I don’t think that really fits with the spirit of the OP though.

Mrs. Geek doesn’t work, so she doesn’t put many miles on her daily driver (it’s a Toyota, but it’s not a newer Toyota so we don’t have to worry about the throttle sticking and running up a whole bunch of extra miles :stuck_out_tongue: ). She puts a few miles per week on her car going to the store and running the kids all over town. I think she put a total of about 800 miles on her car last year.

Pretty close to that for my two cars. The one’s a 2000 Acura TL with just about 65,000 miles on it, and the other is a 2003 Subaru Forester with 28,000 miles on it.

About 17 years and 93,000 miles combined = under 5,500 miles per year per car. This despite a few pretty long road trips in each car at least once a year (from NYC to Canada or New Hampshire/Vermont, or to Washington, DC). My wife drives for her commute about half the time but only about 10 miles, and for my commute I typically only drive to the train station about 3 miles away if at all.

In 1985 I bought a 66 GTO that had a little over 12,000 miles on it. The original buyer blew up the 389 when the car had about 6000 miles on it. He parked it in a garage and it sat there till he died in 1983. The guy I bought it from replaced the blown engine with a later model Pontiac 350. He put about 6000 miles on it till I bought it. Unfortunately for a car with such low mileage, it was in sad shape. I had to replace the trunk and driver’s side floor boards, lower quarter panels and some sheet metal around the rear window. I removed the 350 and replaced it with a 69 model 400. The brakes and suspension were upgraded, the interior completely redone and it was repainted.

I sold it in 1995 for $26,000 to a gentleman in Memphis, Tennessee. It had a little over 17,000 miles on it.

I have a 1977 MB 300D and a 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis upon which I have put zero miles this year. Zero miles on the Benz last year, and maybe 50 on the Mercury, and yes, they both run and are insured.

2001 Lincoln Town Car getting close to 70,000. That is in Detroit suburbs with no mass transportation. If you want to go some place, you drive.

Oh, I hear you on that. I grew up and lived for many years in Los Angeles. Same thing. I beat my cars to hell in LA traffic.

Both of my cars were bought after the move to Southern Utah.