How many miles/Kms when you took delivery?
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Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 6
From: Vancouver Canada
Re: How many miles/Kms when you took delivery?
Mine had 6 kms.
I am told the dealer's storage lot is about 2 kms away. My guess the distance travelled from the factory in Japan to the dealer's storage lot is 4 kms.
I am told the dealer's storage lot is about 2 kms away. My guess the distance travelled from the factory in Japan to the dealer's storage lot is 4 kms.
Active Enthusiast
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 159
From: Eastern WA
Re: How many miles/Kms when you took delivery?
I guess I am the champion here with 204 miles on the car 
... and I probably put 40 or 50 on it myself with the test drive. Yes I did take a long test drive as I wanted to be sure that it has the umpf to take the mountains that we have to cross to get almost anywhere here in the Yakima Valley in Eastern Washington. (being rural freeway, we had to wait for a place to turn around!) It was also on the lot for at least a week... someone had special ordered it then couldn't take it so it had several test drives, but I was the lucky one!
... and I probably put 40 or 50 on it myself with the test drive. Yes I did take a long test drive as I wanted to be sure that it has the umpf to take the mountains that we have to cross to get almost anywhere here in the Yakima Valley in Eastern Washington. (being rural freeway, we had to wait for a place to turn around!) It was also on the lot for at least a week... someone had special ordered it then couldn't take it so it had several test drives, but I was the lucky one!
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Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 22
From: British Columbia, Canada
Re: How many miles/Kms when you took delivery?
Ours had 28 km on it. I was puzzled; when we first saw the car, it was still partially covered with shipping paper and the side mirrors were not yet installed. So I am sure no one has test driven the car at that point. Yet it had 28 km on it. I asked why and the sales person just said that's normal. Looking at other numbers posted here, it seems to be on the high side.
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Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 649
From: Toronto, ON
Re: How many miles/Kms when you took delivery?
Originally Posted by greencat
Ours had 28 km on it. I was puzzled; when we first saw the car, it was still partially covered with shipping paper and the side mirrors were not yet installed. So I am sure no one has test driven the car at that point. Yet it had 28 km on it. I asked why and the sales person just said that's normal. Looking at other numbers posted here, it seems to be on the high side.
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Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 135
From: Chicago
Re: How many miles/Kms when you took delivery?
18 miles.
This wasn't as bad as my 97 Mercury Sable (built in Chicago and delivered to a Chicago Suburb) which had 78 miles on it when I saw it backed off the carrier. It had a sticker on the window stating that it had been "randomly selected for road testing". It was a special order so I knew the VIN before it was built. It was a good car, I sold it to friends after 220,000 miles.
This wasn't as bad as my 97 Mercury Sable (built in Chicago and delivered to a Chicago Suburb) which had 78 miles on it when I saw it backed off the carrier. It had a sticker on the window stating that it had been "randomly selected for road testing". It was a special order so I knew the VIN before it was built. It was a good car, I sold it to friends after 220,000 miles.
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Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 1,031
From: Chesapeake, VA
Re: How many miles/Kms when you took delivery?
Mine had 23 miles on it. I can't understand why as I picked up the car the day it arrived at the dealership. When I was there purchasing my car I first wanted to test drive a new Prius that was sitting there. They wouldn't let me because it was sold to a customer so I'm guessing they wouldn't let someone test drive my car.
