Chevy Silverado hits 1 million mile mark.

[Godiva]

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.

[Rae Vynn]

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.

[hill]

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?

[BIGGDOGG]

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

[malorn]

Originally Posted by hill

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 get 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?

Its a truck hill, if you tried to do the same things with your Prius or your Lexus they would be in pieces.

[miscrms]

Originally Posted by malorn

Its a truck hill, if you tried to do the same things with your Prius or your Lexus they would be in pieces.

Unfortunately, our Priuses do about as much work as 70-80% of the Trucks and SUVs in America.

Rob

[DaveinOlyWA]

give it time... a Prius will do the same...

[miscrms]

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

[eddiehaskell]

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.....

[hill]

Originally Posted by malorn

Its a truck hill, if you tried to do the same things with your Prius or your Lexus they would be in pieces.

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!"