BUt you could tell the nutcase as the car would likley look rubbish despite being a 1 owner carAndyBeech said:Or the one owner who's owned the car from new is a nutcase with too much money and drove it like he stole it from cold every time he got in it. Whilst the car with 6 owners were all very careful and appreciated the car whilst in their ownership and babied it. It's impossible to know, unless its had like 3 owners in a year which would be odd, or just coincidence! Your never going to know in reality.
You just never know, but of course you can weigh up the risks or odds. The odds are if the car looks well looked after (inside and out) and it's had one owner, it'll be good. Multiple owners especially in the last year or two, even if it looks good, is a riskier purchase as you said. I'm usually interested in knowing howr many previous owners it's had and how long the last owner had the car and how long other owners had it each if known. A decision would of course be based on many other factors too. Some have a perfectly good reason for a short ownership experience such as halifaxbantham on the forums(health related)