Can anyone beat this mileage ?

[Jimlad1987]

A friend had been driving around in an old Proton Persona 1.5 GLXi. I drove it to the scrap yard for her today. The milometer was reading over 692000 miles ! The bodywork was in a very sorry state and the engine had a bad idle when started from cold, hardly suprising ! But amazingly it still drove pretty well for what it is.

I believe there's a car in America with over a million miles on the clock which is a record but I personally have never seen a mileage anywhere near as high as on this Proton.
What about you guys and girls ?

All comments welcome.

[soad]

I can't.

Some taxis must have been to the moon...and back?

[Paul671]

http://youtu.be/7oxAjgq24Ts

Nearly million mile Porsche.

[patmahe]

As a younger man I sat in a Toyota Carina E taxi with 800000 miles on it. Driver informed me that it was shared between 3 drivers 24-7 and only ever came off the road for maintenance.

[Jimlad1987]

It was my first post too Manx. This was a courtesy car at a garage for years and indeed may have also been a taxi at some stage in it's life. I couldn't believe it, it crossed my mind that the mileometer may of been tampered with but why would anyone want to do that ?

[Jimlad1987]

That's going some Patmahe, show's how long an engine can last if looked after properly.

[rehab71]

I took an Octavia in in PX once that had 750,000, was bloody tidy too.

[Riley Blue]

Try Googling three million mile Volvo.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

soad said:

I can't.

Some taxis must have been to the moon...and back?

that's less than 500,000 miles (depending on apogee or perigee)

[eldar]

We've recently scrapped an Escort van at work. Less than 40k miles. However it had spent the last 19 years trundling around a 200 acre site at 15mph. Only serviced when it broke, which was surprisingly infrequently, given the variety of people that drive it...

[Condi]

Jimlad1987 said:

A friend had been driving around in an old Proton Persona 1.5 GLXi. I drove it to the scrap yard for her today. The milometer was reading over 692000 miles ! The bodywork was in a very sorry state and the engine had a bad idle when started from cold, hardly suprising ! But amazingly it still drove pretty well for what it is.

That is the unbelievable bit...


Anyway, highest Ive driven is a 750,000 KM Land Cruiser in Oz. The suspension and drivetrain were like triggers broom, but considering it was used to round up cattle on an outback station it did VERY well.

Some of the trucks out there had easily a million KM on the clock.

[TVR1]

http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/transportation/blogs...

[Gixer]

I'm on 325,000 miles so half way there!! Sure there was a thread posted earlier this week with a link to a 3 million mile car. Looked an interesting read but didn't have time to read the whole article

[TVR1]

Gixer said:

I'm on 325,000 miles so half way there!! Sure there was a thread posted earlier this week with a link to a 3 million mile car. Looked an interesting read but didn't have time to read the whole article

Try the post above yours.

[RDMcG]

http://www.autoweek.com/article/20130716/CARNEWS01...

3 million mile Volvo P1800

[Gixer]

TVR1 said:

Try the post above yours.

[carlingofblack]

I've been working in Malaysia for a few weeks and so many of the taxis are Proton with huge mileage and no hint of an MOT type check. Impressive, yet terrifying...!

[tbc]

wouldn;t be surprised the instrument cluster was knackered and it was only on 69k miles

why anyone would buy a proton is beyond me

They look like they've gone to the scrappy and cobbled together some bits off other st cars

[T16OLE]

Condi said:

That is the unbelievable bit...


Anyway, highest Ive driven is a 750,000 KM Land Cruiser in Oz. The suspension and drivetrain were like triggers broom, but considering it was used to round up cattle on an outback station it did VERY well.

Some of the trucks out there had easily a million KM on the clock.

Triggers Broom. Haha

[Richair]

Ecurie Ecosse said:

The distance to the moon is 238,900 miles.

When my Volvo 850 T5 hits that I'm putting this sticker on the back. Quite fancy a Snoopy Speedy too, but that's for another thread.

A good excuse to treat yourself I'd say! If you can find one... (The watch that is)