Ragnar,
I'll go along with the diesel Merc's being long lasting.. most of the ones that are left on the road here from the 70's & 80's are well past 300 or 400K on the clock.. Although they're usually spewing a roostertail of black soot and poking along at no more than 40mph... They tend to follow the Chevrolet mantra. "They run bad longer than most cars run period."
But for downright longest lasting....
A Montreal taxi driver on the verge of setting a Guinness Book of World Records mark for the most mileage by a car, is cursing his luck.
Just 264 kilometres short of setting the record for mileage on the same car, Joseph Vaillancourt's never-say-die 1963 Plymouth Fury sedan is headed for the scrap yard. It was smashed by a truck that ran a red light on Wednesday.
Vaillancourt had logged an incredible
2.6-million kilometres in the car, and estimates carrying more than 800,000 passengers.
The 36-year-old cabbie was not hurt in the accident.
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