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That is an amazing amount of mileage but the best part is when the owner states
" When you go in a curve it sits down like a coyote does"
I was unaware of the coyotes reputation for cornering ability.1989 332IS -S-Fiddy Four-Some weight removed.
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pfft...thats nothin, and who needs NASCAR tickets when you can get a brand new replacement when you hit the million mile mark, haha. This is cool tho...
Cars that last a million miles
Yes, it's still rare to see a million miles (1,639,300 kilometres) on an odometer, but it happens. And while in decades past automobiles were often junkyard-bound at 100,000 miles (160,930 kilometres), today's cars can easily run 200,000 miles (321,860 kilometres) or more with minimal maintenance.
By Christopher Solomon
May 29, 2007
Automaker Saab announced recently that it would give a free car to any original U.S. Saab owner who drives the car 1 million miles (1,639,300 kilometres) or more. Spurring the challenge were Wisconsin insurance salesman Peter Gilbert and his 1989 Edwardian Gray Saab 900 SPG, whose odometer not long ago clicked over to six zeros.
His car, now in a museum, still has its original engine and turbocharger.
That's impressive, but he can't touch retired New York schoolteacher Irv Gordon, who's in Guinness World Records for having driven more than 2.5 million miles (4,023,250 kilometres) in his cherry-red 1966 Volvo P1800.
Though stories such as Gilbert's and Gordon's happen once in a blue moon, people who drive their cars for several hundred thousand miles today aren't so unusual. And they're not all devotees of Swedish iron.
Virtually every marque - Chrysler, Honda, Chevrolet, even Miata - has a not-so-underground community that's just as proud of the car at 500,000 miles (804,650 kilometres) as when it was new, maybe even more. (Mercedes and Volvo hand out grille badges and window stickers.) And their secrets range from the mundane to the downright mystic.Comment
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Yeah but do any of the others "sit down like a coyote in a curve" ?Last edited by BMW_TUNER; 03-30-2008, 08:46 PM.1989 332IS -S-Fiddy Four-Some weight removed.
5 lug E36 M3 Brakes Coilovers and LTW's and No ABS.Comment
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I was in a wrecking yard, and they had the odomoted and speedometer out of an old dodge van that read 782,xxx. I thought that was kind of cool.
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Yeah, there are plenty of vehicles that have hit the million mile mark. I'm just surprised to see a 5.0 GT Mustang make it that far.Comment
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There are so many great quotes from that lady- I don't know where to start. The rustang is certainly living up to its name though.Byron
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how can you verify 673,000 miles on a 5 digit odometer?
why would you drive a car that gets such shitty gas mileage if your putting so many miles on it?
FOXBODY FTW!!!!!Comment
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A guy with a Buick used to bring his car in to the shop I used to work at every 3k on the dot for oil changes. He kept the car MINT. He sent us an article someone did when the car hit 500k. We started doing the work on it after like 300k or so IIRC. It looked and ran like new.Comment
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There was a guy in the news who did the same thing recently with his 91 Chevy pickup.
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I'm at almost 400k on my e30..1985 325e 2.8 Turbo VEMSComment
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Hahah...I just love how that guy says its all oil changes. Then says plugs and wires and stuff. Oh, that's all it takes to keep a car running?
Wow...if only I had known that. lol- Sean HayesComment
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