Guess That Mileage!

This is the game where I show you some pictures, and you guess the mileage of our cars!

First contestant:

A 2001 Ford Focus ZX3.  Have your guesses?  Now to the next one (sorry, you only get one picture of this one):

A 2000 Ford Ranger XLT.

Now to the mileages, since you have your guesses (unless you're cheating...).  First the Focus:

Yep, a cool 185,827 miles.  Putting 25k miles on during some years takes its toll.  For the record, this has been an absolutely amazing car, and I have done no major work on it - just the routine maintenance manual jobs.

On to the Ranger:

It just rolled over to 160k miles this past week.  I just drive it back and forth to work (a 4 minute commute), so that's why we've only put 10k on it in a year.  It has had a trip out to Pennsylvania, and we'll use it for holiday trips to help with the snow encounters.  Four wheel drive is great, just don't let the roads deceive you.  Even a little flurry is sometimes enough to send you backwards into the median at 70mph...not that I would know from experience or anything...definitely not.

So there you have it.  Two high-mileage cars that have served us very well so far.  We tend to use the "drive it til it dies" mentality.  Even with all the maintenance of two high-mileage cars (which really hasn't been that much), you're still saving money compared to just one car payment.