Million mile truck Both GM and Shell Oil are interested in buying the truck. There was a film crew filming when it rolled over to 1 million. (I didn't know odometers could go that high.) I imagine we'll be seeing commercials soon.
That's nice. Chevy/GM had a couple of good engines. In my previous life, we had a truck that had over 500K on the engine when I left... that was 11 years ago, and I recently heard that "the Truck" still lives. It was the '76 Malibu engine (350? 425? one of those, I think). You couldn't kill it, the only challenge was finding bodies for it (Chevys rust something terrible in the Midwest). MPG? Oh, about 8 mpg on a good day.
What's that ... roughly over $187,000 in gas? Comparred to $62,000 for what you'd use for an equal amount of miles in a Prius. Then there's the maintenance, that it took it to get it that far. Compare that to the maintenance of what the Rav4EV owners have spent .... some over 100K miles, and it gets pretty disgusting. Heck even in our Lexus hybrid SUV, they could have saved over $50K on gas, not to mention all the tons and ton's of CO2 pollution. Why are they talking about it as tho it's not the mark of shame that it strikes me as?
He will probably get more $ than what he bought it for and GM will probably end up giving him a new truck. Then withing weeks he will end up disliking it and wish he had back his old truck. Or he will end up getting one of the many new chevy's that are catching fire all over the place. HAHA
Its a truck hill, if you tried to do the same things with your Prius or your Lexus they would be in pieces.
Incidentally, it is an impressive feat, but definitely not the first to pass this mark, and definitely not unique to trucks. Saabnet.com Press: Million Mile Saab To me its all the more impressive that this is the high pressure turbo version of this engine and the one the most aggressive tuning (SPG). 1966 Volvo P1800 Hits 2.6 Million Miles Mark Something about those crazy Swedes I guess, Guinness record for non-commercial vehicle Rob
I love how everything done by another vehicle somehow relates back to what the Prius can do or how it can do that feat better. It's kinda like kids in school - my dad can.... oh yeah, well my dad can..... that's nothin' my dad can.... yeah, well my dad can beat up your dad.....
The sad part is that malorn simply doesn't get it. If I ever need to move my electric boat, I CAN use our hybrid SUV. If I ever DID need to haul a 5th wheel, (less than 1% of virtually everyone's driving) then I'd have to be a complete idiot, to not just rent the Silverado for a week. But I suppose for those that buy into the dumbness of macho marketing, yea, ya just gotta have a good ol' dualie. You know ... for that look (shaking head) Too bad all the 10's of thousand of ranchers & contracters in asia & europe haven't seen the wisdom of U.S. marketing eh malorn? They do everything we do in our Land Boad contractor trucks, only they do it with smaller trucks, unless you're talking special goodies like pouring concrete on a highway, or a high rise foundation. Those crazy european and asian contractors and farmers ... what do they know. Now about here, is where the gas guzzler ad men yell, "Noooo !!! shut that guy up. Average joe needs macho!"
Thanks for asking! She who must be obeyed 'needs' it because: 1) She needs WAY better MPG than a AWD Tahoe. Even being a lead foot ... her AWD hybrid SUV gets nearly 25mpg average per tank, and I get 30mpg average per tank when I drive it. That's more than double the GM. 2) She needs WAY better reliability than the last GM product that she had, or the one I had, or the one we bought for our daugher. 3) She used to haul her customers around in a Range Rover, and finally the fact sunk in, that just because her customers looked on a RR as a symble of business success, the RR's unreliability and poor mileage would continue to kill inflowing money especially when the warranty went away. The Lexus still represents success to customers, without being quite as horribly wasteful to the remaining fuel sources, and that's less profit for the "Terror" countries, and not as much smog damage as the Bigger Land Boats. 4) Reasonable ground clearance, tracking and stability when the snow plow guy hasn't yet made their rounds. 5) Appreciation to Toyota for their recant ... not crushing the Rav4-ev's versus GM ... who still continues to lie about their vile behavior. 6) Lower profile than the bigger land boats, meaning less risk of roll over. That enough reasons? See? You too malorn, can dump your wastefull oversized smog burner. Think about it malorn ... Toyota ... "If you Sell it, they will come" ... and hopefully, Toyota too, will learn to nix the land boats. But hey, on that rare occasion (less than 1%) when I (or most anyone else) need to haul a 5th wheel, or 20K pounds of hay at one time, we might just rent a Silverado . . . on those rare occasions. But buy one? It wasn't as dumb to buy one 20 or 30 years ago, but not now ... not facing peak oil. Those are by gone days. The next GM car we buy will be all electric or not at all. But I'll bet Toyota gets it back to market first. THAT will be OUR million mile car ... and it wont require replacing its V8 three or four times.
Ok found the news blurb. Man's '91 pickup passes the 1M-mile mark - Yahoo! News He distributes steaks and seafood all over the midwest. The truck had either a 305 V8 or a 350 V8, both good motors with decent care. Looks like he changed the oil every 3,000 miles or so If he intends to do that sort of work, he should look into a Dodge Sprinter. This is actually a Mercedes Benz work van with a 5 cylinder turbodiesel. they now have a common Mercedes V6 3 litre turbodiesel. The fuel economy of the Sprinter van will be twice as high as a regular pickup. Even with our medium-sulfur diesel fuels the oil changes are once a year or every 10,000 miles I know a family living in a rual area here with 2 disabled adopted children. They got a Sprinter a couple of years ago, customized with a wheelchair lift. They claim they average 25 MPG. However, it's a very high boxy thing, so strong winds can push it around. And forget about parking at the underground parking at Health Sciences Centre
No, it claimed the site was down. Weird, searched and it came up properly. Thought perhaps there was an error in the URL. The Internet: hate it or despise it, can't live without it
Catching fire? On what model? I'd give that man a Silverado 2500 HD with a Duramax Diesel. Sweet ride y'all.
If he still does the seafood distribution thing, a Dodge Sprinter AKA Mercedes Benz van will do much better. The fuel economy is much higher, the van has proven reliability and durability, so for that work the fuel savings alone will pay for the Sprinter
In my opinion, any vehicle hitting the million mile mark is pretty amazing, since most people seldom take such good care of their cars/trucks. Something else I agree with is using whatever vehicle you purchase until it is no longer capable of performing its duty, be it driving you to and from work, or where ever else you go. Let's not forget about the pollutants produced and natural resources consumed that go into making a new car. Far less are produced or consumed by driving one that is already made, be it carburated, fuel injected, hybrid, or electric. Instead of bashing people for their vehicle choices, and the non-hybrid vehicles for producing pollutants, lets focus on the bigger picture.
Up to a certain point, true enough When one compares that million mile truck with all those 3,000 mile average oil change intervals - generating about 1,600 qts of used oil - and an average of perhaps 12 MPG - requiring about 83,000 gals of fuel - then fuel economy becomes a very important factor The Mercedes van or Dodge Sprinter is built to last, completely unlike the POS it replaced, all while delivering an average of TWICE the fuel economy. This is also with oil change intervals that are a minimum 12 month or 10,000 mile, so at least 3 times the oil change interval In many commercial/fleet operations involving long haul use, fuel economy is very much a make or break factor. A large highway transport that is outfitted with very advanced aerodynamic fairing, and driven gently, can average 2 MPG more than the conventional looking big rig driven pedal-to-the-metal by the independant Oddly enough, in the transportation area, the aerodynamic trucks with fairings are looked upon as "gay" while the old fashioned looking diesel-guzzling things are looked upon with pride. Go figure http://www.ccap.org/pdf/2003-Aug-13--CT-CCSD--Transp--EE_for_Freight_Trucking.pdf
The typical vehicle consumes 85% of energy expended during its operating lifetime. The rest is used to produce and dispose of the vehicle... unless you're Art Spinella, then it's the exact opposite.
