I have just been to see an agricultural contracting client and we went out in his Toyota Landcruiser which he has had since new and has racked up over 437,000 miles on the same engine and gearbox. It was a 3.0 litre diesel automatic from 2004 and worked perfectly well.This amount of mileage is in my experience unusual for the UK but may well be not that surprising in other countries In the same time he has had this car I have had eight cars and covered I estimate 250,000 miles across them all which got me contemplating how wasteful I have been just because I got bored and fancied a change or did not like the idea of losing manufacturers warranty.
I’m a cheapskate with cars, can’t bear the depreciation hit that comes with regular changes. I’ve been driving for 28 years and 24 of those were covered by 4 cars. I put at least 100k on each of them, and took one up to 150k.
180,000 miles until a drunk driver killed it while parked about a decade ago. 96 5.9liter. I’m 6’4...
My dad and I between us put over 500,000 our old family car over a period of twenty-five years, it was a 1966 International Travelall. Back in the early 2000s its long body developed a bad flex crack behind the B pillar and I wound up driving it to the junk yard.
300,000+ on my wife's 2000 Honda Civic. It was still running like a top when she traded it in for - you guessed it, another Honda.
My dad put 400,000 miles on a Volvo240 estate. Now he is 74 and bought a Lexus 400 something or other. I think it will outlast him.
Still driving this Mercedes CLS 320cdi from 2010 every day. Already 382k km on it but still drives very smooth.
328000 on a 1995 Honda Civic manual. Gave it to a relative who needed a car. Who promptly wrecked it. Had 242,000 on an 02 TrailBlazer. Traded it in 2016. She was a good car.
