Mileage is just a number

[rider]

There is a repainted Supra up for sale in the USA that someone has done some detective work on.

Sold as "The digital odometer indicates 94k kilometres (~59k miles), approximately 4k of which have been added by the seller." it was sold at a Japanese auction in 2019 with 259,000km. Must have been a lot of reverse gear driving since 2019.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1993-toyota-supra-100/

Another low miler bites the asphalt. I'm proud to own the only Supra that ever got itself driven in Japan, averaged 14k km a year. 

 

Edited May 23, 2022 by rider (see edit history)

[Big Supes]

Ouch. Little bit of flood damage thrown into the mix for a proper job. 

[mattdavies]

17 hours ago, rider said:

. I'm proud to own the only Supra that ever got itself driven in Japan, averaged 14k km a year. 

How many miles is yours on then ? just out of interest 

[rider]

It's covered around 115k miles, I think. That's what km gauge set 1 added to converted to miles gauge set 2 adds up to. 

No one who hasn't owned a car from new can know for certain the mileage on a chassis. With the sheer numbers of 20+ year old 40k mile Supra's that appeared from nowhere over the last few years, this auction car certainly isn't going to be the only Supra to have had a mileage correction at some time in its long history. That's an interesting topic in itself. I recall you'd only see the very occasional really low mileage car 15 years ago that had done like 40k miles. They were invariably all the later facelift cars. A proper rarity when the cars were at their low value point and a TT6 could be had for a little over £5k. Then, 10 years later the 40k mile cars began to reappear. This time, clearly nowhere near as rare as they had seemed 10 years earlier.