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    Default The shortest length of time you've kept a vehicle?

    What's the shortest length of time you've kept a vehicle? I just sold a truck today that I bought 10 days ago. I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for so I gave up and settled on something close, and then a couple days ago a truck came up that was what I wanted in almost every way. So I bought that and sold the other one.

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    Edit: 5 days, MR2
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    I had a 2014 Audi S4 for about 1.5 months. 4200km.

    Longest I've kept a car is a bit over a year...
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    1 month, C63

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    7-8 months for me. 09' civic.

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    Originally posted by J.M.
    1 month
    Thanks again!
    j/k lol


    8 months for me.

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    I've bought a few cars sight unseen that seemed good on paper then I drove them and hated them so sold them immediately. So, some as little as 2-3 days.

    I actually bought a CBR 600RR a few years ago and after one ride realized how shitty CBRs are so I dumped it that same day at a loss.
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    6 days...

    71 Mach 1 mustang with a 429 and double holley 4barels...

    It was a tank of gas a day to commute, but holy shit the merge onto deerfoot was fun both ways

    Flipped it for good profit too...

    I bought it with a "blown motor" - oil change - solved the oil pressure issue - carb rebuilds solved the fuel pouring into the cylinders, then installing the proper linkages on those 4 barrels - made it run like a .... 70s big block with an aggressive cam and cherry bomb duals... (I really wanted to say smooth... But let's face it - it wasn't)

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    Originally posted by mr2mike


    Thanks again!
    j/k lol


    8 months for me.
    Lol I went back and checked.. I owned that MR2 for 5 days haha. The red one I sold to ExtremeSi I had for about a month

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    2 days.

    Bought it, stripped it, scrapped the carcass.
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    I owned a 77 Nova SS owned it for 2 or 3 hours.

    Bought it at the auction, drove it to the registries office. the guy behind me liked it so much, he made me an offer on it, and I took it. Bought it for $2800 and sold it for $7500. I wasn't even planning on selling it.
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    10 months. Mazda 3, hated the seats, auto window wipers and the automatic transmission.

    It sold within 48hrs and made $1000 profit.

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    This last year I haven't owned a vehicle longer than 2-3 months.

    na mx-5 miata - 3 months
    mini truck - 2 months
    e36 bmw - 1 month
    dc2 integra - 3 months
    jdm wrx - 2 months

    Might keep WRX another two months. Then get a new car I'll keep probably forever.

    Before I get that new car wouldn't mind getting another cheap fun car. Which usually happens when I spend a lot of time browsing Kijiji.

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    Probably my GTR I think I had it for 2 weeks after it landed here.

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    Around 12 hours. Bought an old S-10 and spent the afternoon jumping it until the motor mounts broke, then sold it for the same $100 to my buddy's Dad for a farm truck. Never had plates on it so big deal. Pretty much sums up my teenage years in a small farming town.

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    31 Months for my GTI. in that time it only cost me 400 bucks in regular maintenance. 220 dollars for a mirror i broke ( don't ask ).

    And i only lost about 5k on the depreciation ( and that was me trading it into a dealer and buying it CPO. Not bad)
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    Probably 14 days. I rarely hold onto a vehicle for more than 6 months. I get bored of them, and if you sell them in that time frame you usually don't lose money on them.
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    Technically about six months, but I prefer to look at it as a few weeks. In the fall of 2009 I bought a 2008 Yamaha FZ1, rode it a half a dozen times and had to park it for the winter. Didn't care for how it rode so I sold it in the spring. I think I only put about 500 KM on it.
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    About six months. I tend to keep most vehicles about two years, although for a lot of my driving life, I've had multiple vehicles on the go at once.
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    Wow I thought I was bad for wanting to switch every year or so. I'd say mine would be a year and a couple of months. But ALL my cars I've kept for more or less that long. The C63 would be the longest (2 years in July) but it might get dropped before that too.
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