4 Years with "Ocean" (Our Car)
Jul. 14th, 2025 04:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerRecently we passed the 4th anniversary of buying "Ocean", one of our cars. It's a BMW 230 convertible.
We bought the car used from a dealership in San Diego county. Yeah, that's not exactly right next door. The first thing we did after signing for the car was drive nearly 500 miles home.
Here's a pic from when we picked it up:
![We finally see the car in person... and buy it! [Jul 2021]](https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/canyonwalker/33413618/750267/750267_original.jpg "We finally see the car in person... and buy it! [Jul 2021]")
We bought the car, a 2018 model, with 24,xxx miles on the odometer. Today it's at 57,xxx. So we've driven it about 33,000 miles in 4 years. That averages out to 8,250 miles/year, well below the US average of 12-15k per year.
How do we like it? We still like it a lot! The car looks great, and a convertible is awesome in this part of California. Mild winters and mild summers mean we can drop the top to enjoy al fresco driving much of the year.
This car has a less powerful drivetrain than the BMW convertible it replaced. It's certainly no slouch with a 0-60 time under 6 seconds, but our previous car was even faster. We almost never miss the extra oomph. The car has all the creature comforts we want, which is way more important than winning stoplight races.
We bought the car used from a dealership in San Diego county. Yeah, that's not exactly right next door. The first thing we did after signing for the car was drive nearly 500 miles home.
Here's a pic from when we picked it up:
We bought the car, a 2018 model, with 24,xxx miles on the odometer. Today it's at 57,xxx. So we've driven it about 33,000 miles in 4 years. That averages out to 8,250 miles/year, well below the US average of 12-15k per year.
How do we like it? We still like it a lot! The car looks great, and a convertible is awesome in this part of California. Mild winters and mild summers mean we can drop the top to enjoy al fresco driving much of the year.
This car has a less powerful drivetrain than the BMW convertible it replaced. It's certainly no slouch with a 0-60 time under 6 seconds, but our previous car was even faster. We almost never miss the extra oomph. The car has all the creature comforts we want, which is way more important than winning stoplight races.
