Ok, you can quit whining about your car having a lot of miles on it... see what I got to drive?
It's a Frontier pickup, one of the old ones that had the extra long cargo space. And it's got 505.216 Km (around 314.000 Mi) on it.
But the most surprising part is, it still runs like new. Most cars I've seen start to drag their feet around 100.000 Km, and start to have all kinds of weird hiccups and noises. Not this one. The engine was a bit loud, sure, and it had a loose screw here and there, but aside from that it ran like any other pickup you might drive.
Had to take it all the way across the ranges on the Atlantic, which was a pretty good test drive.
From what the guy who normally drives it tells me, the secret to getting 500.000 Km out of a car is maintenance. Oil, tuning, spark plugs, all that stuff... change it when the manufacturer says to, on the dot, and you'll never hear your car complain. This one in particular was like that: it´s had a maintenance schedule that almost borders on obsessive-compulsive.
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