I own and owned a number of classic cars. I like to drive them, so my requirement is road-ready. Both mileage and age are indirect signs of how problematic the car would be, however lack of maintenance is #1 accurate predictor of problems and it can happen to high miles and low miles cars alike. However, if I were picking a car to drive I'd take one with higher miles with good records over low miles garage queen. Sure, higher miles when taken to extreme (e.g. 275K+ miles) might indicate you are up mechanical limits of a lot of hardware, but in-between (e.g. 50K to 175K) there isn't much difference, given that all known flaws are addressed.

In terms of bathtub curve - random failures don't care about mileage and that what drives your 'used driver' experience.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve

 

low tolerance engines hit a sweet spot after 40k miles- when they get broken in. High tolerance engines pretty much start at the sweet spot.

Exotic cars are no different than supermodels. Under 30, there are still kinks to be ironed out. Over 75, you can come out ahead if you know how to do hip replacement surgery.

 

NICE and Fair

 

Scam
2012 Jaguar XK 2dr Coupe XKR-S | eBay

 

moreover carfax says its never been to Kanada.
I said from the onset that it was odd that someone would put 100,000 miles on a XKRS in just 3 years no less. Ridiculous.

BTW the real car is a good deal at only 22k miles

 

Interesting. The pictures of the Canadian car are identical to the ebay listing, except the bottom of the Canadian photos have the bottom cropped to remove "Photo Property of Diamond Motorworks". Cars have different VINs.

One VIN decoder on the Canadian car says it is a 2013 XF
https://www.vindecoderz.com/EN/check...A4HA7DMB49637#

The VIN decoder on this site says it is an XKR-S
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/v...inDecoderFarea

The VIN decoder on both sites says the car on ebay car is an XKR-S
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/v...WA4HA7CMB44738

I bet the Canadian guy would take $30K cash!
(for a car he does not own)

 

A couple weeks ago, I caught some clown using pictures of my car from the previous owners ad. They even showed the "XKR" Oregon plates. So I inquired about it and apparently, my car is currently in Croatia and can be yours for the cool sum of $14,500!

 

Croatian guy would lower his price if he knew the mechanical condition of your car.


What's even funnier is the mountain some of the folks here climbed to pass a fart- like SinF educating us there was no mechanical difference between a car with 50k miles and 175k miles. Yet he could not answer how the hell do you put 100k miles on a xkrs in 3 years in a country with only 1 highway that is covered in snow and deer 6 months out of a year.

 

2013 model year can be as old as 5 years. Plus, this is not unusual mileage for Canada, with average is 20K/year. You can easily double that commuting from the sticks to Toronto. Mileage by itself is not a red flag.

Now, stolen pictures are problematic. However, this is local listing from a local business that has a sign visible on Google drive (capture date is June 2016). How are they going to show, less sell, the car if they don't have some kind XK? This isn't private sale. So likely explanation for pictures is laziness.

 

I'll tell ya what the difference between a car with 50k miles and 175k miles is: 125k miles

 

Yep, and that the entirety of the difference. Modern cars designed to last 250K and 15 years.

 

Not entirely so simple:
The environment can affect it dramatically.
250k in Manhattan- forget it.
Most folks outside Manhattan dont even realize that a bumper-bully is a necessity even on a car that is never driven.

250k in Chicago in a Jag, only if it wasnt driven in the winter. Most arent.

No way can a car that travels on dusty roads do the same miles as a car that travels on clean paved roads, unless it was built for it.