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Volvo 240 Reaches One Million Miles

Posted October 23, 2012 9:00 AM by dstrohl
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It's late 2012. We now live in the cosmos where a late-1980s Volvo sedan - you know, the one affectionately called the Brick for its hip-to-be-square lines - is now a legitimately historic European car. That goes double when it's achieved the famous Volvo distinction of racking up a million miles. It's a 1987 Volvo 240 sedan owned by Baltimore-area resident Selden Cooper, whose milestone was documented by his local dealership, Lehman Motors Volvo, which has a showroom just across the state line in York, Pennsylvania, and was performing the 240′s 200th oil change when it noted the mileage.

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10/24/2012 7:50 AM

Nah. I reckon it's been clocked!!

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10/25/2012 3:08 AM

How is this news?

Its not a first for Volvo.. there is a Volvo with over 2 million miles on it.

Volkswagen regularly has examples of cars with more than 1 million miles logged.

Mercedes has it occur frequently enough that they have created a grill badge that they send out when cars exceed 1 million miles.

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The real kick in the teeth though: a Chrysler exceeded 1 million miles around 2006. Claiming to match a longevity standard set by a Chrysler ....well that's almost self deprecation.

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10/25/2012 5:38 AM

I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for a Chevy Cavalier from about the turn of the century to make it.

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