Acceptable miles on new car pick up

TurTLeG said:
A new car is define by law as never having a registered owner. So it really is a new car. Given the situation I would be mad they didn't tell me up front.

I know many dealers require the car to have a 10 mile test drive to ensure the doesn't have abnormally rattles and road noise.
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When I bought my 2nd gen FX in 2010 it had 21K miles on it and was owned by an executive that works for Infiniti corporate and he used it for his personal ride but never actually registered it because it was writtem down as a demo car through Infiniti. Now that I own the car it shows me as the one and only owner and when I bought the car it was considered "new" even though it had 21K miles. Instead of paying the $59K msrp for it I only paid $40K. Deal of my lifetime because the car was less than a year old and I saved $19K!
 
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Any thing over 50 miles is not new, you should be paying used low mile car price. 200 plus usually mean dealer let people take test drive on them, might even be loaner once or twice.
They try to sneak one on you and hope you will take it, I would return and wait for 20 or less, that just me. Oh I rather break the car in myself than some test driving/joy rider.
Especially they didn't tell you about it being that many miles. that should be red flag, they better give really good deal to offset the miles.
 
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Fire0nic3FX said:
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When I bought my 2nd gen FX in 2010 it had 21K miles on it and was owned by an executive that works for Infiniti corporate and he used it for his personal ride but never actually registered it because it was writtem down as a demo car through Infiniti. Now that I own the car it shows me as the one and only owner and when I bought the car it was considered "new" even though it had 21K miles. Instead of paying the $59K msrp for it I only paid $40K. Deal of my lifetime because the car was less than a year old and I saved $19K!
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Wow, that's an amazing deal! I never knew that was your situation. You did good. I once picked up an M3 that had 121 miles on because it was sitting on the dealer's lot for 8 months. Of course I know it was abused and not broken in properly, but they gave me a screaming good deal on the lease, and the bottom line is, it was a lease! So of course I took it. I do agree with you guys though. I think anything over 30-50 miles on a new car can't be very good...
 
It can depend. When I bought my IS350 in early '06, they were very rare since it was new. The one I test drove had over 300 miles on it since it was the only one they had for test drives. I considered buying that one, but the color wasn't what i wanted. They absolutely wouldn't budge on the price since it was in demand. I lucked out and they delivered one that afternoon w/ 27 miles on it. I bought that on the spot.

sprtfx said:
Any thing over 50 miles is not new, you should be paying used low mile car price. 200 plus usually mean dealer let people take test drive on them, might even be loaner once or twice.
They try to sneak one on you and hope you will take it, I would return and wait for 20 or less, that just me. Oh I rather break the car in myself than some test driving/joy rider.
Especially they didn't tell you about it being that many miles. that should be red flag, they better give really good deal to offset the miles.
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