Saab replaces million mile car
Company extends the 1m-mile offer
Peter Gilbert's Saab 900SPG
Saab didn't give anything at first to US driver and travelling salesman Peter Gilbert after he gave his 1989 Saab 900 to the Wisconsin Automotive Museum. Saab has since relented, following huge media coverage of the story, and decided to give him a new Saab 9-5 Aero.
"I am on cloud nine right now. This is exactly the car I wanted," Gilbert said.
Saab verified the high mileage on Mr Gilbert's car last summer. He had hoped they would give him a new car then - but he didn't get so much as a T-shirt.
The company has now decided to make the most of the situation: anyone who puts a million miles on their originally owned Saab can benefit from the offer too. "We have no idea, frankly, how many cars that will be. At this point, we only know of Peter's car," said Saab spokesman Jan-Willem Vester.
What we don’t know is whether the offer extends beyond the US -- but it's worth a try. For the Imperially-challenged rest of the world, that's 1.6 million km.
Saab will also take his old car out of the museum for a showing at the auto show in Detroit next week. "We thought it would be great to have the car there with a big sign on the windshield that says a million miles," Vester said.
Photo by Jeffrey Phelps
I'll get my coat 
A million (1,000,000) is the same either side of the Atlantic. The US billion (1,000,000,000) is now generally used. A UK billion used to be the same as a US trillion, which is a million million (1,000,000,000,000).
Did you know that a trillion fivers in a pile would reach 63 miles into the sky?
Sod that, just take the speedo cable off and stick a drill in the socket, off you go! Obviously you'd need to do it over the course of 2 or 3 years, have MOT & maybe a service a few times to make it appear genuine!
Which is actually JUST into space...IIRC they set the air/space boundary at 100km/62miles.
Mille...300,000 in a TVR?!? That's more impressive than a million in a Saab!!!
...I'll get my coat!...
A million (1,000,000) is the same either side of the Atlantic. The US billion (1,000,000,000) is now generally used. A UK billion used to be the same as a US trillion, which is a million million (1,000,000,000,000).
Did you know that a trillion fivers in a pile would reach 63 miles into the sky?
And the largest number known to man is called a Centillion. I wonder how they came up with that? And why nobody has made a larger one.
A million (1,000,000) is the same either side of the Atlantic. The US billion (1,000,000,000) is now generally used. A UK billion used to be the same as a US trillion, which is a million million (1,000,000,000,000).
Did you know that a trillion fivers in a pile would reach 63 miles into the sky?
And the largest number known to man is called a Centillion. I wonder how they came up with that? And why nobody has made a larger one.
i thought it was a googolplex, which is a googol (100 digit number) times by another googol.
how much is a centillion?
edit to say its a googol not a google
A million (1,000,000) is the same either side of the Atlantic. The US billion (1,000,000,000) is now generally used. A UK billion used to be the same as a US trillion, which is a million million (1,000,000,000,000).
Did you know that a trillion fivers in a pile would reach 63 miles into the sky?
And the largest number known to man is called a Centillion. I wonder how they came up with that? And why nobody has made a larger one.
i thought it was a googolplex, which is a googol (100 digit number) times by another googol.
how much is a centillion?
edit to say its a googol not a google
a 1 with 600 noughts. But I've just had a look and you are right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centilli
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