Saab drove 1,001,385 miles

[Abbaby]

I didnt know this was possible.

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16070928/

[Black02Silverado]

Now for the age old question, how often, what brand oil and filter did he use???

 

Curious minds want to know.

[gmcjoe]

driven 1,001,385 miles

 

here comes another oil discussion LOL

[Sachvie]

haha i wonder if my familys saab is goin to be able to do that! haha its almost the same..1995 900s..

[ratchet]

they can build any car to last over a million miles if they really wanted to, but they won't because they would not sell as many cars. It's mostly in the tolerances and quality. My old freightliner classic with a cat motor lasted well over a million hard driven miles. If they can build the tractor trailers to last they can build cars to last.

[Wingnut]

they can build any car to last over a million miles if they really wanted to, but they won't because they would not sell as many cars. It's mostly in the tolerances and quality. My old freightliner classic with a cat motor lasted well over a million hard driven miles. If they can build the tractor trailers to last they can build cars to last.

 

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Drive a brand new Chevrolet pickup at 60-70 mph, 99% highway, and it's going to last a long dang time...Conversely, drive a Freightliner to and from work about 20-30 miles a day, to the movies once a week, to the grocery a time or two per month, and over to the inlaws every 3 weeks or so...And that thing will be falling apart at 200k.

 

If you bought a pickup in 1970 and it hit 100k miles without eating itself alive, you'd be able to see daylight between the pistons and the cylinder walls when you pulled the pan and heads. It would also be getting about 8 mpg. 100k miles on a 2004 pickup is nothing...Not to mention twice the load bearing capacity, 100 times better ride, etc...While getting double the miles per gallon.

 

In my opinion, if they could design door-slammin grocery-getters that would take stop and go short trip abuse for a million miles, they'd be all over it...Even if only for the bragging rights. People are still going to buy the newer and cooler cars every few years anyway, and the auto-makers know it.

 

As much belly-aching as we do about some of the little things they do...They're getting better every year. We cry about losing the underhood light (really, did it save THAT much GM?) and purists will always pi$$ and moan about the demise of the solid front axle for years after the last one goes the way of the dodo...But year after year, they're adding a touch more power here, a tad more longevity there, a hair better economy across the boards, load capacities inching upwards...

 

If you ask me...They're getting there. Slowly, but they are. It's the bean counters vs. the engineers, and it's all a tradeoff.

 

I'm sure they could build a line of pickups that would get 20mpg, last a million miles without breaking a sweat, and haul like a donkey the whole time...But with the design and materials that would go into them, they'd cost $200,000 for the no-A/C havin', no radio bangin', work truck version.

 

There's my $0.02 for the day

[ratchet]

my freightliner was driven on 28mile round trips for 12 hours a day for 6 years straight. Lots of stop and goes in those 28 mile round trips too.

[Clavin78]

Just think if that underhood light cost only $5...multiply that times tens of thousands of vehicles and you save $$$$$$$

[Scyry]

Anyone else notice the 8 deer strikes? I think that has got to be a record for one car...

[Schmids5.3l]

He was a traveling salesman, so yeah, probobly all highway.

 

His car must have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

[4doorluv]

who keeps a volvo that long...

[ZZebes]

not sure but he keeps a SAAB That long

[4doorluv]

whoops dont know how i messed the 2 up, oh well just as fugly

[Chestah]

I hear Cummins Diesels going that much pretty often.

[TravelinSierra]

To be honest, I think there are a few more vehicles out there that are near, at, or just over a million miles, but no one's said a word. But hey, that is actually easier to do on the Autobahn than on the US Highways and Interstates.