I don't know if this has been discussed here, in any event it it wasn't recently then it probably should be revisited.

I've been a little concerned about the low number of VX's found for sale and reported here. It seems like the number is pretty low. Lower than I'd expect.

Based on some Internet research I've done it seems after 11 years on average approximately 25% of a given model year's vehicles would be retired. And the rate would be approximately 10%/year and accelerating. That leaves approximately 3,000 remaining VX's on the road.

Assuming average resale rates you would expect to see 30-40 a month turn over. You would expect 4-5 a month to be removed from service , but I don't know how many would show up on copart or in yards, apparently not that many.

We aren't finding anything like those numbers. there are numerous reasons for that, including the fact that many sales are probably private sales or they don't get reported. It's possible that the owner pool is somewhat out of the ordinary, and hold on to their vehicles longer that average. It's possible attrition was much higher that average do to the nature of the vehicle and its use.

Anyone have any additional information or thoughts on this?