One of the pillars of Curbside Classic is the survivor car that is still serving its intended purpose after many years or even decades. I wanted to take this premise, and turn it up to eleven, and find the highest mileage vehicles that are still on the road. And not just still on the road, but high-mileage cars that are deemed to have enough life left in them that are considered worthy of our hard-earned dollars.
This is exactly what I did the other day: I went to cars.com, did a nationwide search, and sorted the results descending by mileage. I eliminated Class 8 trucks, which can regularly get over a million miles. I also limited my results to dealer listings, where I could verify the mileage with a free CarFAX report, or to private owner listings with a photo of the odometer.
The results were about what you would expect, but there were a few surprises here and there:
Fifth Place: 2005 Dodge Ram 3500 SLT – 518,474 Miles – $9,588
These I6 Cummins Diesels have a well-deserved reputation for reliability, so it is no surprise to see one on this list.
Dodges justifiably get lots of complaints about their plasticky interiors, but I’ll grant them this: They are durable. This one certainly belies its stated miles. Extra points are also awarded for the third pedal.
These duallys are frequently equipped with a fifth wheel and used for long-haul towing, and the presence of a manual transmission means that this one was almost certainly purchased for highway use.
Fourth Place: 1983 Mercedes Benz 300SD – 558,123 Miles – $7,450
W126 Benzes frequently come up in my searches of high mileage vehicles, so it is no surprise to see one here. These W126 bodied Benzes are like the Dorian Grays of the automotive world. They just don’t seem to age.
There are covers over all the wear surfaces (no doubt because they are suitably worn), but honestly, I’ve seen worse interiors in cars with half this mileage.
Mercedes was doing six-digit odometers back when most of the industry was still doing five-digit odos.
Third Place: 2005 Ford Econoline Van – 574,720 Miles – $5,000
This one surprised me. Most vans typically serve shot haul duty doing contractor work and local deliveries, so it is somewhat unusual to see one with a mileage reading this high. The chrome and paint seem reasonably bright, so high mileage doesn’t have to mean high wear.
This vehicle also has the honor of being the sole gasoline-powered vehicle on my list, being equipped with a Triton 4.6L V8 engine.
Second Place: 2003 Dodge Ram 3500 SLT – 621,369 Miles – $18,900
This is another private seller vehicle, so I was unable to verify the mileage with a CarFAX. At $18,900, this is by far the highest asking price of all the vehicles on my list. While I think the price is a reach, if they get anywhere close to it this vehicle will be the all-time depreciation king in terms of dollars per mile.
The cloth interior is a little worse for wear, but otherwise not much to show for the high mileage.
While there is no CarFAX, the seller did include a picture of the odometer, and honestly, why would someone try to lie about a mileage reading this high?
First Place: 2003 F-350 Dually – 645,257 Miles – $7,800
May I present to you the highest mileage vehicle for sale in America right now: This 2003 Ford F-350. Another diesel dually? What else did you expect?
This is another private seller vehicle, and the owner doesn’t say much more than that the vehicle is “very dependable” (obviously), and that most of the miles are highway miles (also obviously). No word on whether it has the 6.0L or 7.3L Power Stroke (both were available in 2003), but given the troublesome nature of the former I would bet that it has the 7.3.
No interior photos are provided, but the shot of the odometer above confirms the mileage and judging by the exterior photo I have no reason to doubt it. To sweeten the offer, this one even includes a quarter tank of fuel! Still, if you are looking for a ride that has had all the bugs shaken out of it, this is the vehicle for you.
Honorable Mention: 2006 Chevrolet Express 1500 – 733,757 Miles – $1,139
I have some doubts about this one, which I would have otherwise declared the winner. While it certainly looks the part of a high mileage vehicle, it is equipped with a 4.3L Vortec V6, of which I have significant doubts about being able to last almost three-quarters of a million miles.
But on the other hand, as I mentioned earlier, why would someone lie about an odometer reading this high? Could it be an odometer glitch?
Being a 2006 model, this van is also the newest vehicle on my list. At only 13 years old, this works out to about 56,000 miles per year. A lot, but certainly plausible. I was unable to procure a CarFAX (which likely would have settled the matter), but the photo of the odometer seems to back up the claimed mileage. So what do you think? Is this legit?
That Chevy is probably on its 3rd or 4th V6. And I too think that F-350 has got to be the 7.3. The 4.6 Econoline? Doesn’t surprise me; I rode in a Crown Vic cab once in Vegas with a tick over 600K on the clock.
No doubt that it’s on at least a 3rd engine, so the odometer would probably be correct in that case.
I’ve done a little research on ways to make money by driving. There are two trades, expediter and hotshotter, that seem to be based on moving small loads from A to B. I’m not quite clear on the difference between the two jobs.
If you look up both terms on YouTube, there seem to be quite a few videos, and some of these folks are driving 80-100k miles per year. I bet this is what some of these trucks have done for a living.
As for the Benz, yeah, that’s a drivetrain that will go 500k easily, if you’ve got the coin for proper maintenance. The only reason you didn’t find more of them for sale is because their owners refuse to let them go.
Am I crazy, or living too far in the economic past? $10K for a vehicle with 500K miles on it?
What’s This Foolishness?
I might consider spending 12K on an identical vehicle with 200K based on how well this one has done, but seriously – every bolt, rivet, and electrical connection in the thing has been shaken, bumped, and vibrated literally millions of times.
” every bolt, rivet, and electrical connection in the thing has been shaken, bumped, and vibrated literally millions of times” Not to mention any work done by ham-fisted clam brains over the course of it’s travels.
I’d love to see this filtered to just non-commercial passenger cars, although none of our “bests” even come close to that Mercedes. We have, however, had good service from three Chrysler-platform minivans (two others were totaled Before Their Time). 215K (4th gen 3.8l), 278K (3rd gen 3.3l) and my son’s ‘10 GC is currently at 218K (3.8l) and going strong. My ‘00 New Beetle TDI was sold at 218K, and is still seen in town over five years later, probably well over 300K at this point.
Current top 5 in Denmark:
5. Volvo S60 D5 with 701,000 km
4. 1999 Volvo V70 2.5 20V with 749,000km
3. 1997 Mercedes Sprinter 312 D with 820,000km
2. 2003 Mercedes E270 CDI with 840,000km
1. 2008 Crysler 300C 3.0 CRD with 935,000km (581,000miles)
The winner is quite a surprise. It must have been a rural taxi. The others are very much expected. Three MB diesels at the top though. Business as usual.
A few more worthy competitors on Craigslist—what a fun premise this is today!
1. (no odometer photo) in Van Nuys, a 2004 Lincoln Town Car taxi with $621K (about 40K a year, right?): https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/ctd/d/van-nuys-2004-lincoln-town-car/6946658895.html
2. 2000 Ford F250/7.3 (Arlington TX), 415K: https://dallas.craigslist.org/mdf/cto/d/arlington-2000-ford-f-diesel-pickup/6950008014.html
3. 2003 E350 Ford van (former Super Shuttle), 505K, in Denver: https://denver.craigslist.org/cto/d/brighton-2003-big-ford-e-van-extended/6948976879.html
An E series with that kind of mileage doesn’t surprise me, especially as a former shuttle van. Just a few years back, I was riding in a Super Shuttle (might even have been in Denver), and peeked over the driver’s should to read the odometer. I recall this van was in the low 400,000’s. I also remember a Check Engine light and more than a few squeaks and rattles, but it was nonetheless soldiering on. I wonder if the Transits will prove to be as durable.
Wow, makes my twenty-six Camry stick shift with just over a quarter million miles seem like low mileage. Thank you for sharing.
Do you mean 26 years old?
The 1926 Camry wasn’t much for performance, but it was really put together with quality materials. Sadly, in ’27, they started decontenting them.
I have seen a fair amount of F-350s on Craigslist, but I have yet to see one with over 90K miles. I figured that these were just bought by folks that belatedly realized that they had bitten off more than they could chew….and as such, they were the red-headed stepchild of the Ford truck lineup.
It should not surprise any of us that every US vehicle in the list is a truck. I would argue that CAFE took this kind of brute durability out of US cars a long time ago – the holy grail of light weight for high mileage has to come from somewhere. And the trucks would seem to be easier to service, too.
I remember that the Allpar website used to have an area dedicated to ultra-high mile cars/trucks. I think there were a couple of million milers there. I am sure other fan sites do the same thing. How high did Irv Gordon get his Volvo?
I’m not so sure CAFE is the real culprit, as much as the onus could be on the US manufacturers themselves for failing to adapt to the new regulations in a manner that produces powerplants with both economy and longevity. After all, Toyota is subject to the same restrictions, and their modern cars are well-known for their durability.
I’m also not 100% convinced that American manufacturers’ cars are any less durable now than they used to be. The cars on this list are older, certainly, but high mileage has a strong correlation with the age of a vehicle, for obvious reasons. Newer cars haven’t had the time to rack up the miles that these older ones have, or to acquire a reputation for durability.
Lastly, trucks (and vans) are more likely to be used for the type of long-distance commercial ventures that accrue mileage at such a high rate than smaller vehicles are. If you’re driving such a long distance, you want to carry as much cargo as you can to maximize efficiency: hence the use of large vehicles.
And Irv made it up to 3.25 million miles (5.23 million km), at last count.
I’ll also point out that none of the vehicles listed were “cheap” in the inexpensive sense of the word. The vans were probably the least costly but a van still has a lot of utility no matter the miles as long as it runs.
A Ford Focus or Honda Civic or Toyota Camry that racks up insane mileage is simply not worth enough to pay for an ad to sell it Or the owner sees zero reason to replace it and this doesn’t sell it. Those that do get replaced would likely either end up on Craigslist or put on the street with a For Sale sign or be totaled for ANY minor damage. Or just scrapped.
In addition to not being worth enough to pay for an ad to sell it, some owners feel that less expensive, high mileage vehicles are not worth the cost of a major repair, or even intensive routine maintenance.
So they end up being given away to a friend or relative in need, or junked.
This is what a co-worker did. He had a 1st gen Nissan Altima with over 600k on the clock. When he would back into his parking space at work, the car would barely pull itself in reverse. But it ran good in all forward gears and got him to work every day for years. When it came time to get a new car, he gave the Altima to a family in need.
Funny you mention Focus, Jim. A woman I was dating has a 2008, with 335K trouble free miles on it. She now drives a ’16 Kia, but kept the Ford. Why? She loves it, its a good spare car, and she too realizes it isn’t worth the price of an ad. I have driven it several times; still runs and drives great.
I see several recent model Focuses with 200,000-300,000 miles on them on Craigslist. Strangely they seem to on average have higher mileages than Cruzes, Corollas, Civics, etc. I’m not sure how so many of them reached such high mileages given the bad reputation of their DCTs.
Our 2005 Focus SE sedan had 235,000 miles on it when we traded it in July 2016.
If the recent model Focuses have a manual transmission, it’s plausible that they could have racked up 200-300,000 miles. It’s my understanding that the car is reasonably reliable aside from the automatic transmission.
Some high mileage vehicles for sure. I am not surprised by the Ford vans or trucks with the Diesel engines. We had a 91 E350 cube van at my dads shop that we parked with a little over 650 000 kms. It had probably 2-3 transmissions replaced and numerous brakes done but the motor was still working fine although a bit of a smoker. We eventually leaned to replace both of the batteries at the same time as the newer one would get discharged by the old one and we would have 2 dead batteries in short order. The Mercedes doesn’t surprise me either as one of the guys at work claimed his brother in Lebanon put over a million kilometres on his (1980’s 300 I think). Now the chevy van with the v6 I have a hard time believing that is the original engine. However my dad has put about 1/2 that on a number of Astro vans.
Poland’s top 5 is all passenger vans with insane mileages:
– #5 – 823k km 2011 VW Crafter – https://www.otomoto.pl/oferta/volkswagen-crafter-15-osobowy-ID6BP2NO.html#9927fcf713
– #4 – 845,136 km 2008 Mercedes Sprinter on its second engine and gearbox – https://www.otomoto.pl/oferta/mercedes-benz-sprinter-sprinter-313cdi-silnik-om646-9-miejsc-dvd-i-multimedialne-radio-ID6C3Stt.html#9927fcf713
– #3 – 880k km 2014 Mercedes Vito on its second engine – https://www.otomoto.pl/oferta/mercedes-benz-vito-mercedes-vito-8-osobowy-long-jeden-wlasciciel-salon-polska-ID6C1zKw.html#9927fcf713
– #2 – 921,645 km 2014 Opel Vivaro on its second engine – https://www.otomoto.pl/oferta/opel-vivaro-salon-polska-2-0-cdti-9-osobowy-long-stan-bardzo-dobry-ID6AqLaH.html#9927fcf713
– #1 – 936,631 km 2011 VW Crafter on its second engine – https://www.otomoto.pl/oferta/volkswagen-crafter-9-osobowy-wymieniony-silnik-oraz-skrzynia-biegow-ID6BEgVj.html#9927fcf713.
Think about #2’s mileage – at exactly 5 years that would be an average of ~105 km/h. That’s 3/4s of the highway speed limit of 140 km/h, and not counting any stops!
The current passenger car record holder is a 715,620 km 1993 Mercedes 250D wagon – https://www.otomoto.pl/oferta/mercedes-benz-w124-1984-1993-e-klasa-2-5-d-diesel-skory-kombi-zadbany-stan-ID6C6lse.html#9927fcf713
That Opel Vivaro is a UK-built Renault design. Who said anything about the quality of French engineering and British manufacturing?
Didn’t Steven Lang (formerly of TTAC) compile a list of the longest-lasting models?
Best I ever did and probably ever will, was my 1996 Maxima. Bought new and put 300k on it, with minor problems I could count on one hand. What a car!
I did almost the same thing with a 1996 Maxima, only I sold it at 200,000 trouble-free miles, just because I had never owned a vehicle for more than 100,000 miles, and I kept thinking that something major would happen. I saw it on the road for a few years after, so I have a feeling it made it to at least 250,000 miles.
You and I may be the only people on the planet who had trouble-free Nissans, and I actually did it twice.
My 1999 Maxima was one of the best cars I’ve ever owned. I don’t drive that much so had only 92K on mine when I traded it in after 12 years (mostly because I wanted a car with side and head airbags) – but that is the most mileage I’ve ever put on one car. Other than coil packs and oxygen sensors, it never needed much attention. There are quite a few 4th gen Maximas still on the road here in SoCal.
Just a quick search and you’ll immediately find at least 10 Benzes here for sale with more than 700,000 km (437,500 miles) on the clock. Sedans and wagons, all diesels, no surprise whatsoever. Still the usual suspect Number One when it comes to high mileage cars.
I specifically didn’t search for trucks (regardless weight segment) and panel vans.
Below the winner -on the website I used- a 2009 E 200 CDI with 1,293,677 km on the odometer, according to the seller. Clearly a former taxi, because blue plates.
A local shade tree mechanic and “dealer” had 1999 Saturn SL1 out in his lawn with 397k for $3500. Very clean and it had a 5 speed no less! It sold after 2 weeks.
Wonder what he got for it? 350 bucks?….maybe….?
Great article, high mileage vehicles are always interesting. One minor point on the Express van, those are 8 lug wheels, so it’s a 2500 or a 3500.
With a dedicated enough owner/operator, barring a major accident or lack of parts availability, anything is possible! The highest mileage vehicle I’ve personally experienced is a friend’s dad’s 94 Ram 2500. It has around 300k on it, bought new, and has had nearly every body panel replaced due to rust, as well as ~4 automatic transmissions.
I tried to find the highest mileage car in Brazil, but it is impossible. The sales websites don’t order by the highest mileage, only by the lowest. And a lot of used car stores and sellers put “999,999 km” instead of the real mileage (kilometrage?).
The Brazilian thinks that a 100k km car is extremely used an tends to like low mileage cars. Is very common dial back the odometer here, you can easily buy a 1990’s compact hatchback with 80k km in the odometer, but who knows how many kilometers the engine did. And isn’t very common put an odometer photo in the announce here. The stores usually do a cleanup and a half assed detailing, the used cars in Brazil usually looks newer than the used cars I see on US based sites, but is just looks.
My dad bought a new Chevrolet Vectra in 2010 and still have the car, it has 357,000 km. People usually don’t believe this car have that amount of kilometers and still in good shape.
The average Brazilian have some very strange car requirements
I can attest to the high km of Uruguayan taxicabs, most of which used to be of Brazilian origin (nowadays, most of them are Chinese and sold around 5 years old with 300K km).
A friend of mine has a 2001 Chevrolet Corsa Sedan (Opel Corsa, 4 door, with trunk), 1.7 diesel (Isuzu engine), that spent its first 10 years as a taxicab (cabs here used to be very small cars). He bought it, sprayed its yellow roof with black paint, did some suspension work, and put it in daily service. He’s accumulated some 300 K km on top of the 600 it had. So, the odometer is at something like 900K. The car is full of noises, chirps, squeaks, and is not too friendly. But it runs, and keeps running. I hope it will keep on until his checkbook is finally ready for a newer car.
Anyway, the most celebrated car in the Uruguayan taxi community was the Brazilian Passat Diesel, which was sold here from ’81 to ’83 (later versions were not nearly as durable, particularly when they were assembled here).
Cabbies being about as truthful as fishermen, my sources are VW mechanics. The 1600 cc Diesel engine with about 54 hp (I think it’s the same the first Rabbit diesels had) was as tough as it was slow. As everywhere, a reckless cabbie will manage to drive anything way above its limits. They would endure several years post-taxi service.
I didn’t know that diesel powered Passat was built in Brazil. Diesel powered cars are prohibited here since the 1970’s, only pickup truck with cargo capacity above 1,000 kg, trucks and cars with four wheel drive and low range can use diesel
VW do Brasil produced those cars only for export. In fact, Brazilians would look at them as weird. Not only the Passat, but we also received Diesel powered Gol from about ’84 to ‘2000, as well as Parati. Usually Diesel models would cost more than their gas counterparts, so you’d have a Parati LD as more expensive than a GLS.
Most cars in my family were Brazilian-made, because of cost but also because a “border car” was supposedly easier to repair or find spares for.
I love high mileage vehicles. For a driver, I would much rather have a well-maintained and documented high-mileager than one with low miles that only sat in a garage and took short trips.
I ‘think’ 2005 was the first year for the 6.0L Powerstroke but I may be off a year, so that F350 should still be the 7.3.
The Chevy Express may have had multiple engines, only thing we know for sure is that the body has 733K on it.
Maybe not even that — its owner could have pulled a higher-mileage odometer from a junkyard when the old one stopped working sometime early on. Perhaps not plausible, but possible.
I did a quick local Craigslist search and setting aside Class 8 trucks, plus a few other commercial vehicles like Isuzu NPR, I was surprised by how many late model vehicles showed up on the search results (using >500K miles as my filter). Turns out many sellers – private party and dealer – add a sixth or even seventh digit to the odometer reading field in the CL ad. One Integra was shown having 9,522,500 miles yet the ad proudly proclaimed “low milages” (sic) and the ad copy bore out that claim by stating 95,225 miles. The winner as far as I could tell, though there was no picture of the odo, was also a Chevy 4.3 V6, a ‘92 C10 pickup, listed as 538000 miles, which I assume did not have just 53,800 miles based on its looks and price.
This dealership lists this Ford as having over one and a half million miles on it. Maybe all of the readership should call them and inquire about it before Guinness World Records hears about it.
https://longisland.craigslist.org/ctd/d/south-amboy-2011-ford-350-f-x4-lariat/6932434577.html
I daily drive a Ford Excursion with the 7.3 I bought from the original owner because it was cheap, surprisingly so I later found out, and it could fit all my equipment in it. I have owned a number of high mileage vehicles, but never one that does not use any oil between changes with 240,000 miles, like the Excursion.
Why so much disbelief about a Chevy van with 700K miles? I worked at a GM dealer when these Express vans came out. I saw lots of long distance couriers rack miles like crazy on them. My personal record for a vehicle I dealt with that had the highest miles was actually a Chevy Express 2500 with well over 500K miles. It still ran great and was solid. Mind you it was a Vortec 350, not a 4.3.
The 4.3L Vortec engines definitely had some issues, with the CFI system, fuel pumps, intake gaskets, etc. But the fundamental engine was fine (but the SBC V8 was still better IMO). We saw some 4.3L V6’s with spun bearings every now and then, but lots racked up tons of miles, in pickups, Astros and fullsize vans.
By the look of this van, I don’t doubt the mileage. Whether it’s on the original engine or not, I can’t say. Based one what I have seen, I’d say it’s plausible, but if I were a betting man, I’d say it’s probably been replaced at least once. Not sure who’d invest 3 or 4 engines in a beater van though. Of course, unless it’s says in the ad, who’s to say for certian it (or the others) haven’t had an engine replacement?
It’d be interesting to do an article on the 1 million mile vehicles. Off the top of my head, there is Irv’s Volvo, and another early one was the 1991 GMT400 Chevy Pickup with a 350. There was a Ford Econoline Van with a 5.4L, there have been a few Accords, and I know a couple other more modern Chevy and Ford pickups. There’s also been a couple of second generation Tundras in the news fairly recently. I am sure there are many others though.
I’d like to offer a shout-out to Matt’s million-mile Lexus LS400. I’m sure there are a fair number of these cars accumulating fantastic amounts of mileage (as with the last of the Lincoln Town Cars).
Albert Klein’s ’63 VW went 1.6 million miles. That’s the one that comes to mind for me
Let’s not forget about Al Bundy’s old Dodge! It famously turned over a million miles, too!
Yeah I’m betting the engine may have been replaced once, and the transmission has probably been replaced at least once too.
Back when I did fleet maintenance and repair there was a later Astro with the 4.3 that was still running strong, not using any oil to speak of when the trans died and the owner decided to sell it. It did bring $1200 in an instant and it wouldn’t surprise me if it wasn’t still going with its replacement transmission with excess of 400k or more. The truck was perfect other than the trans, the driver’s seat upholstery and the rubber mat under the driver’s feet.
My 2013 F250 King Ranch diesel (used to pull our RV) is at ~317K now and is strong as an ox. It recently needed some work($$$) but the money spent beat buying a new $70k truck.
Someone has a lot of spare time on their hands.
As for the vehicles I can’t see the top two ever getting close to what they are asking. In fact I can’t see either of them getting a single phone call. Heck, all are overpriced for the miles they have.
We measure in kilometers which of course are shorter but high km cars are fairly common particularly diesels, auto transmissions seem to be the weak point on lots of brands and they often just go to the wrecking yards after a failure as its cheaper to update than repair, its interesting to peruse trademe just to see what cars do rack up big mileages and are still in useable condition one Citroen Xsara Picasso had over 800,000 accumulated it ran Tauranga -Auckland return every day of its life as a shuttle, drivers seat was shot to pieces but the rest of it looked ok, my car flicked over 307,000kms todat still runs and drives fine, the cambelt is due in another 100,000 so I’m hoping it gets to that then I’ll replace, the car not the belt.
While the 6.0 has some serious issues, once the EGR is deleted, the oil cooler moved to an external one, the HPOP replaced they will go another 500,000 miles.
Well this got me going. A short search on Austria’s most popular for sale platform (Willhaben) netted a few vehicles with over 500,000 Km (310K miles). A surprising number of Audis but they all had the 2.5L, 5 cylinder TDI diesel which is known for its longevity (and there was a fair number of VW T4s with the same engine). Same went for the 2.5’s smaller relative, the VAG 1.9L 4 cylinder TDI, with a number of Audis, VWs and a lone SEAT, not a vehicle you’d expect to see in such company normally. The usual suspects from MB and Volvo made their appearances but the one that stumped was a VW Lupo diesel auto (!) with 579,928 Km (360,350 miles) on the clock, which by rights should have died long ago.
Highest mileage CAR was a MB 240D W115/8 with 852,288 Km (529,587 miles) but that was really a restoration project…
We have seen several Purolator Ford E-Vans hit 1.5 million kms on original engines.
What a fun game! Just saved myself from falling down that rabbit hole.
It’s amazing how many dealers can’t be bothered to put a correct mileage on a classified ad though.
Some examples from autotrader.ca
2017 Chrysler 300, 600000+ km (no picture)
2012 Jeep Wangler, 1,267,853 km (actually 126,759 in the picture)
2009 MB C class, 1,009,008 (actually 109,008)
But there does appear to be a F-250 with the 6.7 close to the million km mark:
https://www.autotrader.ca/a/ford/f-250/guelph/ontario/5_45043692_on20090710125758341/?showcpo=ShowCpo&ncse=no&orup=18_14_29&pc=L7L%206B8&sprx=-1
Or a 2007 Yaris????
https://www.autotrader.ca/a/toyota/yaris/vaughan/ontario/5_45212566_on20071217113428406/?showcpo=ShowCpo&ncse=no&ursrc=hl&orup=19_14_29&pc=L7L%206B8&sprx=-1
OK, back to work…
The design theme for the first Vivaro was penned by a Brit working for GM Opel who then spent 2 years with Patrick Le Charpy’s team at Renault South of Paris..
His ‘66 427 ‘Vette was used to “educate” some of the Renault design team about what a healthy big block V8 can do…….
Great idea for a story and very interesting. Maybe next can be a search for the oldest brand new car still for sale? Maybe someone has a new 2016 Chrysler 200 on the lot?
Had a look on the Carsales website for Australia and can only echo comments above about careless ads with an extra digit. Highest mileage ads were:
1. 2010 Ford Falcon ex-taxi 750,000km (approx only) 4.0 petrol
2. 2002 Toyota Hiace van (ex-rental) 749,000km (also approx) 2.4 petrol
3. 2005 VW Transporter 743,000 1.9 TD
4. 1996 Toyota Landcruiser Troopcarrier 680,000 4.2 diesel
5. 2011 Holden Caprice (livery car) 680,000 3.6 petrol (one of a few available at $5k, which isn’t as cheap as it seems – only half the price of a ‘normal’ car)