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G x 1,000
« on: July 01, 2012, 05:49:37 PM »
That's right everybody, Brabimus Prime reached the grand old milestone of 60,000 miles today on the way home from work :)



Yay!
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Re: G x 1,000
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2012, 06:13:35 PM »
Thats good mileage for a Brab... se if you can make it 98675 miles ;)
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Re: G x 1,000
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2012, 07:53:26 PM »
Challenge accepted - see if you can get 60,000 out of a corsa.. :P

Do you think a brab shouldn't last so long?
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Re: G x 1,000
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2012, 09:18:03 PM »
my 1.1 has over 85,000 miles and climbing!
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Re: G x 1,000
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2012, 09:28:56 PM »
Quote from: funkydoodycool on July 01, 2012, 07:53:26 PM
Challenge accepted - see if you can get 60,000 out of a corsa.. :P

Do you think a brab shouldn't last so long?

Not that, just they're nice cars and normally performance cars don't notch up big miles.

In two years I should do 60k miles, so that's easily four services in that time plus have a warranty so fingers crossed I should be able too ;-)
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Re: G x 1,000
« Reply #5 on: July 01, 2012, 10:09:13 PM »
I dunno, most Brabs are around the 60k mark now, ones I've seen.  I don't think many people treat them as performance cars, more just runarounds that are quicker than many others ;)

Well that's me anyway - I can't afford to keep two cars (well I could if one of them wasn't this one....)
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Re: G x 1,000
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2012, 06:10:47 PM »
I just had a quick decko on Autotrader and found these high milers.......

05 plate 2005 - Brabus       - 87,233 miles
05 plate 2005 - 1.1 manual - 99.214 miles
54 plate 2005 - 1.1 manual - 128,913 miles
06 plate 2006 - 1.3 semi-auto - 109,000 miles
55 plate 2005 - 1.5CDi manual - 127,000 miles
05 plate 2004 - 1.5CDi semi-auto - 146,000 miles

But at the other end of the scale there is....
05 plate 2005 - 1.3 manual (Passion) - 6,100 miles ! ! ! ! !

And not in Autotrader is my CDi (35k miles), or my Brabus (27k miles)  ;D
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Re: G x 1,000
« Reply #7 on: July 03, 2012, 08:50:30 PM »
been looking at that passion but its too expensive for my old man!!

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Re: G x 1,000
« Reply #8 on: July 05, 2012, 01:11:32 PM »
oh - and my BRAB has 40,500 miles on it.....  :-*

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Re: G x 1,000
« Reply #9 on: July 05, 2012, 09:48:02 PM »
I brought my Brab on 40 (or thereabouts) and sold it on 63 just over a year later.

The MPS I brought on 48 and its now on 53 a couple of months later, and I have been out the country half that time.

Both my first MX5 and my first Range Rover I bought as reasonably low milage and sold (quite a few years later) at just over 180 k each.  I actualy brought and sold these two at about the same time - they made an awsome combo (but it was a pricey way of doing things).

I have always wanted to start with a low milage car (would never buy less than about 5 years old due to depreciation) and take it up to 200 or 250,000, but it has never worked out.  Maybe the MPS?

A 120 miles a day commute soon clocks up, as does over a hundred or so each weekend as a minimum just for children / taxi.  If I go anywhere else, a thousand miles in a week is not difficult to achieve (& all my relatives live in different parts of the country).  On the other hand, I spend a lot of time on business abroad, so my cars spend almost as much time parked up in airport car parks as they do at home or in use.

Little Miss Dunc reckons that I should have a nice economical diesel hatch (like she has, and she only does a few thousand miles a year in it) but I am firmly off the opinion that if I have to spend a lot of time in the car, it has to be a car I enjoy.
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Re: G x 1,000
« Reply #10 on: July 05, 2012, 11:49:40 PM »
That is exactly the truth I was trying to explain to a colleague today who just didn't get why I'd have a car that does 30 miles per gallon with "today's petrol prices".

I told him not only had my salary doubled in the same time as the petrol prices, but this 30mpg car was far far more fun to drive than any other 30 or less mpg car I'd had in the past, when petrol was "cheaper".

He said.... you only want it to get you from A to B....

That ended the conversation for me.
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Re: G x 1,000
« Reply #11 on: July 06, 2012, 12:06:56 AM »
Dont get me started.  Someone today said "why have that car when the speed limit in your country is so low, and most of the time you cannot even do that because of traffic"

no.1 For Fun
no.2 Because I can
no.3 Safer overtaking
no.4 Track days and sprints

I'd better stop now before I go off on one.....
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Re: G x 1,000
« Reply #12 on: July 06, 2012, 12:36:59 AM »
Same here ;)

But these are the same people who don't give a flying xxxx about how they treat their car or other peoples :(

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Re: G x 1,000
« Reply #13 on: July 06, 2012, 12:53:46 AM »
Funky, that was a nice shot.

I have always wanted to get one of those, but never have.

Must try harder.
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Re: G x 1,000
« Reply #14 on: July 06, 2012, 09:43:18 AM »
Quote from: Big Dunc on July 06, 2012, 12:53:46 AM
Funky, that was a nice shot.

I have always wanted to get one of those, but never have.

Must try harder.

I just watched it tick round, then pulled into the next road :P

Tried to take it whilst moving, but the steering wheel was vibrating too much to get a photo where you could actually read the numbers.  Even with the car stationary, you can see the numbers are still blurred!
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