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		yangyang on Aug 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: New way to search for used cars (my weeke... It would also be nice to have the option of using age instead of mileage, or possibly miles / year. Sometimes an old car that's hardly ever driven, with a low mileage, isn't as good a bet as a newer car with lots of miles that's been well maintained.

msellout on Aug 15, 2011 [–]

That's true, but age is so strongly correlated with mileage that it's an insignificant factor in sell-price once you control for mileage (Based on my own research using proprietary data).

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