Ok, here's the deal, it's minivan purchasing time, and we've pretty much narrowed down our pick to the Toyota Sienna. We'd like to spend around 16K, and for that price I've noticed a couple things. We can find a CE model (no frills) with low miles, (around 20K), or the XLE's (fully loaded) but with much higher mileage (50-70K). We really want alot of the features that come with the XLE. DVD is a must, dual power sliding doors would be nice, and leather would be nice. I guess we could always add that stuff later on, whereas we can't purchase less miles, but really not in the mood to spend the money later on to get that stuff added.
So what would you recommend? Lower miles with no frills, or higher miles with the options we want?
The way I'm looking at it is that if you estimate that you drive 12K miles per year on average, then a 40K difference in miles equates to a 6 to 7 year difference in the life of the vehicle. I really wouldn't be talking about the full life of the vehicle, and thus wouldn't really be asking this question at all if I didn't think that we were going to use this van for a good 10 years and drive it into the ground. But realistically, I can see us doing just that.
Anyway, any suggestions or opinions would be appreciated.