I suspect Volvo will give you a brand new car in trade for your P1800.

The Discovery Channel should be able to make a one hour special out of it. Lots of angles to work on. Manufacturing quality, value of good maintenance, return on investment (even non commercial has lots of "return"), etc. As we are under pressure to move toward a greener future it might be good if more of us got more than 7 or 8 years out of a car.

Maybe each of the Top gear team should each select a car from todays marketplace, and, try to beat the record. That'd keep them busy for a while.

I wonder what kind of roads and traffic this car gets driven through. I try to get 200k-300k out of my cars and usually by the end I'm covered in stone chips, door dings, significant undercarriage corrosion, and some electrical bugs on the non-essential convenience items.

How old is the car? If you did 50,000mi. per year it would take 56years to do 2800000mi. He does not look old enough and the car does not look old enough.

If you did 100000 mi. per year it would take 28years. but I doubt that he is doing that many mi. per year since it says that some time in the next five years he is hoping to do 200000mi. which would be 40000mi for five years.

Look at it another way. 100000mi. per year averaging 60mph would mean driving 32 hr per week 52 weeks of the year.

By the way who pays his gass bill?

from http://autos.aol.com/article/3-million-mile-volvo/

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You'd think a guy with almost 2.8 million miles on his car would want to stay put for a minute. But Guinness Book of World Records holder Irv Gordon, a 70-year-old retired science teacher who bought his 1966 Volvo P1800 new, is aiming to roll his speedometer over to 3 million miles in the next three years. "I got a full tank," he says, as I climb into the passenger seat of the small red coupe outside a diner in Medford, NY, "And we can go anywhere you want."

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So it's 44 years old: I'd guessed he was some kind of a sales rep. not a retired science teacher; he certainly doesn't look 70. I look 70 because of my 30 mile each way commute every day.