How many miles are "too many" when buying a car?

[Capri306]

Too many miles is when you whomp on it, and it blows blue smoke out the tailpipe, or it makes ungodly sounds when driving down the road (clunking, etc)...or in the case of automatics extreme slippage between gear changes.

I dunno, it's kinda like women: every single one is different. I have 150k on mine, and I only bought it like 2or 3 years ago with about 92k on it. When I think about it, and how well it runs now (I think it's even better than when I first got it, to tell ya the truth, and the compression numbers prove it!), I just love telling people about it. That's why I laugh when people tell me that their cars are like only 3 or 4 years old and they blow blue smoke or go through a quart a week.

Gimmie a good ol' 5.0 any day....