15,000 miles per year, but the Blue Books don’t look at it in that linearfashion. The give a bit of cushion up to about 30,000 miles and then start to (^)
penalize most every car as it exceeds 90,000 miles—which is barely morethan six years average mileage.
market-correct pricing.TIP: Take the mileage deduction and double it to get a^
When we bid a trade-in, we usually add 50 percent to whatever pricededuction the Blue Book offers, in order to be market correct. This doesn’t (^)
apply to rare, high-demand, or vehicles over eight to 10 years old. Theaverage car that’s from 2000 or before has done well over 100,000 miles; (^)
the Blue Books will often assign mileage penalties to them, which doesn’tmake much sense. On older cars, condition and history is what count the
most.
COSMETICS
Let’s talk color. It is important on some cars and to some people—less soto others. The more mainstream a vehicle, the less important; on high-end (^)
and specialty rides, it can be critical. As a broad rule, men buy masculine colors (silver, grey, black), while men wont often buy and women will
feminine colors (light green, light blue). As of 2010, the most popular colorsfor new cars in America were silver (and variations such as gray), white,
then black. After these come red, then blue, then earth tones, followed bygreen—once the most popular choice.
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