Over 80 reads and not one of you is man/woman enough to do 1,000,000 miles in one car! Or maybe you don't think a modern car is capable?

What would you want to do a million miles in?

^ for me, it would have to be something old. such as my 1979 golf gti! mine has done just over 300,000, meaning only 690-something thousand to go..... if one was to attempt something like this, do it something interesting, cool and stylish, that is fun to drive yet dependable/solid. something you'd be happy to stick this journey out with. something that makes it an adventure, not boring (ie, luxury cars.....sorry to those who like these kinds of cars) or painful/difficult (ie, a peel p50 or the original fiat 500 or something.).

my boyfriend's 2002 clio 1.5 dci is approaching 750,000 miles - nearly three-quarters there, runs amazingly well, and looks in real good nick still too! if my lanky 6'4 self could fit comfortably to drive it i would try to add the required miles to reach 1million faster!
however i do not like this current range of renault cars - so if renault were to copy honda in giving a new renault once 1million miles is achieved, in my eyes it would make for more punishment than reward..... maybe for renault to just give the clio a free service/belt change/etc., and allow the car to continue soldiering on, would make for a more bearable reward. ehehe.

I've probably driven a million miles - but it's taken 45 years to do it, and something like 20 cars.

An Octavia like mine would be able to do it, but if I did an annual mileage like Milion Mile Joe, I'd have stuck with the diesel.

I dont think any modern engine is able to, especially diesels. You'll be lucky to get 200k out of them nowadays

want to do 1,000,000 in our Jazz, which has yet to do 10,000 miles. I'd be happy to have kept our A6 1.9 TDi Avant, which had done over 200,000 miles when we parted with it.

The Jazz certaily lets Honda's reputation down for reliability. Some models suffered from acute gearbox issues as I've read, and my brother in law has a 55 plate Jazz purchased from new and he had the gearbox rebuilt under warranty, and now has the same problem back at only 35K miles.

The key point with the article about the million-mile Accord is that the owner averages over 60K miles per year -- or over 150 miles per day. Cars actually benefit from this kind of running, because they are warmed up and working efficiently, instead of starting from cold, driving 5 - 10 miles, stopping, cooling down, restarting etc.

I'm very happy with my current Volvo V60 D3, I'll happily hang on to it.