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I think my '85 Corolla, I unhooked the speedo cable for a couple of years so as to not run out of warranty. I drove that car to Panama and back. It stood up beautifully, ran smoothly with no oil topups, body looked like new, when I gave it to my stepdaughter when I went overseas, with about 250K showing. I'm not even careful about routine maintenance, it just kept going. Needed struts replaced all the time, was the only thing, and I had done them at a shop that guaranteed forever.
I've driven a few Cat-powered Peterbilts that had between 800K and 1.2M miles. No inframe, either. The highest mileage gas-powered vehicle I've ever driven was a Volvo that had 326,000.
Rode in a former coworker's '96 (?) Toyota Tacoma. It had around 410K on it and still ran fairly well. This was back in 2010. When I was on the same job site, another coworker had a mid-90s Camry with about 370K on it. That car still looked good and ran very well for those miles, it seemed, although he'd only driven me around the construction site.
In the 1960s, I rode in a taxi in Monterrey, Mexico, that was about a 1925 model, as the city ordinance apparently prohibited "late model" taxis -- there were lots of them around. It must have had a god-awful number of miles on it. Conservatively estimating 50 miles a day, that would be about 750,000.
The LIRR, Long Island Rail Road in NY the largest and oldest passenger train system in the USA operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Many of trains are from the 1970s. Considering some routes such as the longest NY to Montauk is 120 miles one way the trains can easily go 200,000 miles a year. Imagine the miles the train has racked up if put into service 1975 till today, around 8 million so sit back and enjoy the coffee on a train going 60 mph with a mere 8 million miles on odometer.
I would venture that it was a commercial vehicle, probably a car service vehicle or airport shuttle, though I would have been unaware of the mileage, but I do recall one of the regular car service drivers telling me that his Town Car had over 300k on it and it was not that old at the time.
For a vehicle that I have driven, it would be one of the family Volvo wagons that seemed to be in perpetual motion. I am thinking of a particular 960 that had close to 400k miles on it when it was destroyed while parked. Everyone in the family seemed to need that wagon: teens, parents, college kids, post-college kids, even with other vehicles. It was a versatile vehicle, and even with the high mileage looked very good with no rust, minimal scratches, no paint loss, leather in good shape, etc.
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My Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais made it to 287k when I wrecked it. It could've gone a while longer.
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