Who's quickest 0-100,000 miles?

[jonnylayze]

My Volvo V50 went through 100,000 miles yesterday at just under 38 months old.

I know there are many people who cover more miles than I do but I was just interested to know what was the shortest amount of time taken to get to this landmark distance what in and, if you like, what you do?

[Meltham Terrier]

I hit 123k last week in the Saab which is 33 months old.

[TerzoNeil]

i managed to put 187,000 miles in a transit van in 3.5 years working for my last employeer

[okie592]

There's 4 or 5 2011 insignias on autotrader with over 100k.

There's also a 2012 ceed with 130k on it

Edited by okie592 on Wednesday 28th August 07:26

[s p a c e m a n]

My 61 plate renault lolly

[Axionknight]

A taxi firm round here seem to have a couple of "pool cars" that are used day and night and have clocked astronomical miles up in next to no time, 100K in a year on a Volvo V70, soon rack 'em up running to the airport and back all day and night.

Those Insignias must surely be ex-taxis?

[JMGS4]

I used to clock up 135k.km/year in the late 80s, now thank God I don't have to. I usually sold my cars after 3 years Autobahn battering with around 350-400k/km, so 100K Miles took me then around 15 months. Not possible nowadays that the Wall has fallen with increased eastern traffic, as well as old age!!!
Just very glad I didn't have to do that mileage in Britain with overcrowded and few motorways and ridiculously low speed limits!

[plfrench]

Axionknight said:

Those Insignias must surely be ex-taxis?

Or they could have been company cars for pretty much any average mileage sales rep. They're 2 1/2 yrs old, so 40k per year.

[talksthetorque]

62 plate exeo with 41000 miles on here. and I'm not the most prolific driver I know. Mate has a two year 100,000 mile total lease.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/used-cars/skoda/octavi...

143000 miles in a base spec skoda in under 3 years,ouch. Someone doesn't like their staff.

[jonnylayze]

JMGS4 said:

I used to clock up 135k.km/year in the late 80s, now thank God I don't have to. I usually sold my cars after 3 years Autobahn battering with around 350-400k/km, so 100K Miles took me then around 15 months. Not possible nowadays that the Wall has fallen with increased eastern traffic, as well as old age!!!
Just very glad I didn't have to do that mileage in Britain with overcrowded and few motorways and ridiculously low speed limits!

This is the sort of thing I'm talking about..... There were no rules attached to my original post but I can't help thinking that taxis and commercial vehicles shouldn't count!

Even at Autobahn speed you must have been most of the day in the car most days to do 100k miles in 15 months

[Amateurish]

My 2011 520d has passed 70k miles, that's just commuting.

[Dapster]

113k in 2 years.... this has airport limo written all over it....



http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2013...

[JMGS4]

jonnylayze said:

This is the sort of thing I'm talking about..... There were no rules attached to my original post but I can't help thinking that taxis and commercial vehicles shouldn't count!
Even at Autobahn speed you must have been most of the day in the car most days to do 100k miles in 15 months

Can't be done nowadays due to traffic density (pre the fall of the Wall). I used to, twice a month, do here (near Basel) to Hamburg (860km)leaving at 2am, first customer at 8, last at 12, then hammer home 860km back, usually back by 8pm. One needs at least double the driving time today to do the same thing.... Once did Flensburg border to here averaging 157kmh in the late 80's, simply impossible with any car nowadays.
Had a greedy boss who wouldn't pay for a hotel; he paid for the car so expected us to use it, and not be a layabout in bed.

All I can say is thank f++k I don't have to do it today, getting too old!

[s_zigmond]

I put 120,000 miles on a saab 9-3 2.2 tid in 2 years when I used to do a lot of traveling for work (8 years ago). I now do 3,000 a year.

[wobert]

My A4, delivered 2nd June 2011 went through 100k miles on 15th July 2013, so by my reckoning that's 25.5 months!

Edited by wobert on Wednesday 28th August 11:21

[trashbat]

s p a c e m a n said:

My 61 plate renault lolly

What does this mean? Asleep for 16 minutes?

[CraigyMc]

trashbat said:

s p a c e m a n said:

My 61 plate renault lolly

What does this mean? Asleep for 16 minutes?

I think it means "short break". If it had a moon on it, that would mean "long break".

Truckists?

Edited to add: here it is as an app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com....

[Chris Stott]

Back when I started in field sales in the late 80's I regularly covered 1,500-2,000 miles/week when I was a trainee and covering vacancies/holidays/sickness. I once put 70k on an Orion 1.6 Ghia i in 9 months - we were on 70k leases back then, so I was getting a new car every 9-12 months.

I do a lot less miles now, but my last company car covered 173k in 4 years, and had 100k on it 28 months in to it's 4 year lease.

[s p a c e m a n]

trashbat said:

hat does this mean? Asleep for 16 minutes?

Yep 16 mins kip, I needed my morning burger van visit. One of the other screens tells me that it took 1838 hours to drive those miles and the lorry has spent 429 hours stationary running the comressor to blow powder out of the tank. A wealth of useless information

[northwest monkey]

s_zigmond said:

I put 120,000 miles on a saab 9-3 2.2 tid in 2 years when I used to do a lot of traveling for work (8 years ago). I now do 3,000 a year.

Similar to me. Back in June 2000 I bought a Jeep Cherokee brand new & sold it in May 2001 with 45k on. Bought a BMW 325tds touring with 70k on & sold it in July 2003 with 150k. Bought a year old 325i Convertible with 10k on then sold it just over 12 months later with 55k on. I was getting a very healthy car / fuel allowance so an economical diesel wasn't really an option.

I now do about 6k a year - much less stressful