A CI car is an ex hire car from Jersey/guernsey (Channel Islands)
Every year ford send thousands of cars to Jersey and Guernsey to be used as hire cars,as the CI are outside the EU the cars qualify for various tax reliefs when re imported to the UK.
As Jersey is only 15 miles by 12 miles and has a speed limit of 30mph,its pretty difficult for the cars to clock up the miles a hire car on the mainland would.
Thus when the cars are re imported (after about 1 year),thay are very low miles,some never even get used if they are at the back of the compound at Jersey airport.
The cars are then re registered from J xxxxxx plates to Uk plates and sold on in the uk,specialist dealers used to sell them on,but ford dealers now have acess to them,my local Polar ford had about 50 just before christmas.
The service book would often show "la motte" as the supplying dealer which would set alarm bells ringing to future buyers ,hence the tendancy to loose the service book.
The cars are returned to the mainland before the first service is due.
When you looked at the car,you must have asked the question as to why it had such low miles,what did they tell you?
Dave