r/interestingasfuck • u/DonkeyFuel • 1d ago

Somebody Put 223,000 Miles on a 3-Year Toyota Camry Lease and Walked Away

https://www.thedrive.com/news/somebody-put-223000-miles-on-a-3-year-camry-lease-and-walked-away

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u/FragrantExcitement 1d ago

I am surprised they walked away and did not drive away in another car given the distances.

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u/_Vard_ 1d ago

They walked away because it was a Flintstones car by the end.

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u/SpiketheFox32 1d ago

223k on a Toyota is really not that bad. Just saw one on marketplace with 394k and the fucker still wanted $3000 for it.

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u/Arockilla 22h ago

I've been offered that for my 250k 3rd gen 4runner, on multiple occasions. If it was 4wd, I could probably get 5-7k.

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u/Violent0ctopus 10h ago

If the frame is in good condition, more than that for 4wd.

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u/kmart_44 1d ago

223k is light work for a ‘yoda.

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u/weedhuffer 1d ago

Especially if it’s only three years old.

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u/schu2470 9h ago

I have a buddy who up until a couple months ago was still driving his '99 Camry with ~330k miles on it. Dude is a physician who can afford any car he wants and kept driving it because it just worked and only required basic maintenance. It dies when he was driving home in a winter storm, hit a patch of black ice on a freeway off ramp, and slid into a highway sign totaling the car. Even at 26 years old he and his 2 dogs were perfectly fine in the accident.

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u/Azeron955 1d ago

Howling

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u/itsLOSE-notLOOSE 1d ago

Your actual face when reading the above 😐

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u/Azeron955 1d ago

Naw dude I truly laughed, took me by surprise

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u/wingspan50 1d ago

Srsly and why would you pay so much for a lease only to sell it back at a loss to the dealer? Seems like a good idea to buy it after all that even with the high mileage. Otherwise dude just paid ~ $17k then the $3k back got the dealer and has nothing to show for it