214,000 mile 4200......yikes

FIFTY

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Good to know they are good for the sort of milage people put on German exotics... makes my "over the hill" 62k miles seem almost like low milage
 

GeoffCapes

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The writer slags off Maserati's and then says he'd rather drive it over a Kia.

The other bit he forgets is the cost of the Masers new vs the cost new of the Fezza's he compares them with.

Interesting that someone has managed to do that many miles in a 4200 though. Must have spent thousands on parts.
Wonder how many times his cats collapsed?
 

conaero

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Manual...probably saved a few thousand on CC clutches. Its doesnt look that bad TBH and testament to driving these things keeps em good.
 

spkennyuk

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Nice to see its been used to that extent to rack up an average 16k per year.

Some of the mindless comments posted below the main article grate a little.

How somebody can say with conviction that it wont have been maintained properly because there isnt a Maserati specialist in the town and the nearest one is 2 hours drive away is beyond me.

The owners of the car were obviously not afraid to drive it so why would a two hour drive to a specialist worry them. Thats not to say its had the same owner or lived in the same area all its life.

The fact its reached the mileage it has would suggest its been maintained to a reasonable level.

Amazing how people can ignore the basic facts in order to knock the car and the town it currently resides.

Good luck to the seller i hope it goes on to do another 200k miles and continues to put smiles on the face of the next owner.
 

safrane

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Respect for the owners...at 250k its probably seen more services than a car of the same age with 25k on the clocks.
 

Andyk

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Think it's good to see.....Surely a testement to using these cars and not sitting on them.
 

philw696

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Well Done to that owner and Respect.
I have always thought that on every long trip I have done in mine that she would just carry on and do it all again with no worries and you even forget about not having a spare wheel.
Just Drive and Enjoy.
 

iainw

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Nice to see its been used to that extent to rack up an average 16k per year.

Some of the mindless comments posted below the main article grate a little.

How somebody can say with conviction that it wont have been maintained properly because there isnt a Maserati specialist in the town and the nearest one is 2 hours drive away is beyond me.

The owners of the car were obviously not afraid to drive it so why would a two hour drive to a specialist worry them. Thats not to say its had the same owner or lived in the same area all its life.

The fact its reached the mileage it has would suggest its been maintained to a reasonable level.

Amazing how people can ignore the basic facts in order to knock the car and the town it currently resides.

Good luck to the seller i hope it goes on to do another 200k miles and continues to put smiles on the face of the next owner.

Agree with those comments! If it wasn’t maintinaed it would have exploded well before 200,000 Miles. Makes me want to buy a car I love and then not care about how many miles it puts on...
 

midlifecrisis

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Just goes to show that mileage is just a number, maintenance is the key factor. I'd rather have a car that was regularly used and maintained that one in a garage rotting away.

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Slowly

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It will have drunk about 30x its weight in petrol at a cost of nearly the same as the car - two completely useless factoids.

ETA correction ~30x its weight.
 

Navcorr

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two completely useless factoids.
:laugh:

Where would we be without suchlike :)

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a factoid as a brief or trivial item of news or information and as an item of unreliable information that is repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact. The term was coined by American writer Norman Mailer in his 1973 biography of Marilyn Monroe. The Washington Times described Mailer's new word as referring to "something that looks like a fact, could be a fact, but in fact is not a fact".
 

Slowly

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Not sure that a word could be a factoid or a fact inasmuch as a fact is a thing done or performed or something that has really occurred or a particular truth. I suppose that usage of a neologism or perhaps an ironic new usage - like "wicked" to signify approval, and by implication attesting that it is proper usage would be a factoid, but once it gained sufficient currency for that usage to be incorporated into the OED then to say it was a proper usage would have become a fact.
One could stray from etymology to theology and logos - e.g. John 1.1, which my son did for his degree and enjoyed. However, quite keen on having the option to own interesting Italian cars himself he is applying for a training contract at City law firms ;)