Roster of vehicles with 300,000 miles or more

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Originally posted by: NFS4
Saw this link over at The Car Lounge...

http://www.autooninfo.net/RosterOf300000MileVehicles.htm

Discuss 😀

I think 88 cars is a good sample size to represent all cars.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: CadetLee

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: farmercal

I am 39 years old and I've never kept a car more than 149k miles. NEVER!!!

I had a 1982 Toyota Corolla station wagon that was 16 years old at the time and had over 200K miles on it. It was running as good as any car I have had since. The only reason I don't have it now is because a drunk driver pulled out in front of me and totaled my car. And it still did not use or loose a drop of oil between oil changes. It was the best car I have ever owned in my life. Wish I still had her.

I highly doubt it drove as good as it did when it was new.

The thing about old cars is that the people who driver them daily tend not to notice how things age and wear out until a part fails. It doesn't drive like it did new though. Not unless you've replaced or upgraded parts. A well maintained engine with 200k miles will not put out the same power it did when it was new. Also, all the rubber suspension bits have worn out so the suspension will be sloppy. Again, most people who've been driving the car for years will be used to it and will not realize it.

I would think that not many people at all would notice it, since there aren't many new 1982 cars left to compare to. 😉

Probably not. You can keep your 200k mileage cars though. 😉

 

[Compton]

Original engine = yes, that doesnt mean the original engines weren't rebuilt, right?

 

[Xyclone]

LOL Accord FTW?

 

[deftron]

I had a Firebird at like 250,000


Could have made 3, (still ran fine)

but I sold it

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: NFS4
Saw this link over at The Car Lounge...

http://www.autooninfo.net/RosterOf300000MileVehicles.htm

Discuss 😀

my '93 sentra had 225k miles when i gave it away in 2002. drove 90k miles since then. i could have made the list!

 

[BuckNaked]

330K!!! 😀

 

[jpeyton]

Toyota, Toyota, Honda, Honda, Toyota, Honda, Toyota, Honda, Honda, Honda... 🙂

My Accord just passed 200,000 BTW.

 

[MikeMike]

im pretty sure you could populate that list full of domestic full size vans if you really wanted to have fleet vehicles over take the whole thing...

 

[Flash1969]

My 87 Nissan truck almost made it...

motor died a couple of weeks ago

Mileage

 

[jonnyGURU]

Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Surprised there's not more A2's on there.

Yeah. I was surprised there was only one VW. I had two A1's with over 200K on them and I know yakko had at least one. I had a bus with over 200K on it.

Of course, I also have an A4 Jetta that I'll feel lucky gets more than 100K on it. Yeah V-Dub Zealots... bring it on. I'll squish you all!!!!

 

[SampSon]

My 1992 Mitsubishi Expo LRV sport had 313,274K on it before some drunk guy destroyed it while parked on the street.

I honestly think that car would have lasted forever.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: farmercal

I am 39 years old and I've never kept a car more than 149k miles. NEVER!!!

I had a 1982 Toyota Corolla station wagon that was 16 years old at the time and had over 200K miles on it. It was running as good as any car I have had since. The only reason I don't have it now is because a drunk driver pulled out in front of me and totaled my car. And it still did not use or loose a drop of oil between oil changes. It was the best car I have ever owned in my life. Wish I still had her.

I highly doubt it drove as good as it did when it was new.

The thing about old cars is that the people who driver them daily tend not to notice how things age and wear out until a part fails. It doesn't drive like it did new though. Not unless you've replaced or upgraded parts. A well maintained engine with 200k miles will not put out the same power it did when it was new. Also, all the rubber suspension bits have worn out so the suspension will be sloppy. Again, most people who've been driving the car for years will be used to it and will not realize it.

I'll put my 153,000 mile 951 up against pretty much any new car.

ZV

 

[SWScorch]

2 of my dad's trucks and my ex-gf's father's truck would make that list, 2 Fords and a Dodge. So ha!