I don't really mind, but the newest car in the family - a (55 / 2005) is an outlier due to its 'old age' in my area of Hemel Hempstead (Hertfordshire). 

 

Most seem to be 69 or newer with the very occasional 13 reg.

 

Most likely are leased I guess but I am surprised what with the supposed shortage of new and nearly new cars how many there are on the roads with almost no older but good used cars  running..

 

What's it like in your area? A good mix or have you noticed lots more newer cars on the road? 

Not an affluent area round here so quite old, probably averaging somewhere about 10-15years old, but I think I won "oldest collection" I had two cars with a combined age of 61

Aberdeen & Aberdeenshire is quite an affluent area with lots of Oil related businesses with car parks.

You will see older cars parked there during the working week, also at the long term parking at the airport / heliport the same at other Scottish airports.

 

This is because people have kept older cars or bought ones as daily drivers and do not use their good cars for driving to work or park up and leave for a few weeks. 

There are lovely cars about on the roads and the dealerships selling prestige / expensive cars.

Quite often these are not on the road side or on drives they are in garages and out of sight other than when out at weekends or times onshore.

 

Plenty older used cars might be 1 owner or ex demonstrator and one owner and low mileage in the North East of Scotland but end up in the trade further south when eventually they are moved on. 

I think mine is the oldest car on the new estate where I live as it's a 16 reg, seems most people here have a mortgage and a newish car as most are no older than 21 reg.

On my street, I've got the second oldest car (the Focus isn't at home with me, it lives elsewhere), the crown going to a well dead 1997/98 Range Rover (shocker). However, in terms of a 1,500ish population village, most cars are usually 2008-2015 at the moment, whereas a few years back most were 2000-2008, it seems to work on a rolling period. No surprise for anything older given the road salt and harsher climate compared to that of posters on here from places darned scarf.

Edited 8 May, 20233 yr by AnnoyingPentium

i live in a small estate of 23 houses.

nearly every house has 2 cars.

 

my cul de sac within the estate has

 

2016 320d & 2016 Cooper SD

2018 yaris and 2015 vivaro (business van)

2014 s class

2019 tiguan & 2021 partner (company van)

2016 yaris & 2019 courier

2013 octy & 2020 Arona (me)

2015 Jazz

2022 corolla & 2009 Rio saloon.

 

the above is about the average across the estate, there a 2008 focus diesel, a 2009 E class, a 2009 golf, 2019 lexus rx suv, a 2020 c class, 2022 santa fe.. even an old transporter van (cant remember the age).

 

 

take the town over all approx 30k people and id say the average around 2014 - 2018. alot of pcp buy outs if i was to guess.

 

 

I'd have said ours range mostly between two and six years old.  Any local average would be skewed by a 1937 Ford Tudor and near perfect 1997 Starlet.

 

Gaz

 

28 minutes ago, Gaz said:

I'd have said ours range mostly between two and six years old.  Any local average would be skewed by a 1937 Ford Tudor and near perfect 1997 Starlet.

 

Gaz

 

 

ha! yeah, we have a few real vintages around too. and several bodykitted early 00's is200's... i try not to weight them too heavy in the average though

 

For us it depends on which road on the estate you look at - there's one road in particular that has  some very upmarket new cars on it (we're talking Mclaren, Ferrari, Porsche, Range Rovers, Mercedes G and numerous high end Audi / BMW's that I see coming out from it) where the average age is probably less than three years (there's a few residents that seem to change cars every few months!).  Then there are others where it's probably closer to 8 years with a few older 55 plates or similar thrown in.  And then there are the outliers - like my 28 year old MX5, a neighbours 60's Jag, a 70s Scimitar and a 70s Land Rover Forward Control.

 

Nip half a mile or so up the road and you're into a whole different kettle of fish though, as you're into an area with more socio economic issues and a much older car population.