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Just drove in a Prius which clocked over 300,000 km (!)

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Main Forum' started by orenf, Jun 14, 2008.

  1. orenf

    orenf New Member

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    Yesterday I finally came back from my South Africa trip. (from Jo'burg to Vancouver almost 30hrs travel - do not try this at home...).

    On my way back from the airport, I took one of Vancouver's Prius taxis (lots and lots of them at the airport). I sat up front, to chat with the driver, and to look at the display (even though I own a Prius in Canada, mine is imported from the US, and I'd never seen the L/100km display before).

    Turns out that the driver has been driving it for about 3 years, and has so far over 300,000km on it (!), with a lifetime avg. of roughly 5L/100km (roughly 47mpg).

    According to the driver, the Integrity tires lasted for about 130k km, after which he put on some Michelin tires, which are still in use.

    All in all, he (and I) is extremely impressed by how reliable the car is. He hopes he can take it all the way to 1M km... though we're both waiting to see what comes next from Toyota.
     
    #1 orenf, Jun 14, 2008
  2. efusco

    efusco Moderator Emeritus
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    186[SIZE=-2] [/SIZE]411 miles for us metrically impaired types.
     
    #2 efusco, Jun 14, 2008
  3. patsparks

    patsparks An Aussie perspective

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    otherwise know as dinosaurs.

    That's a good running tally hey?
     
    #3 patsparks, Jun 14, 2008
  4. Tideland Prius

    Tideland Prius Moderator of the North
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    130,000km? damn it! My gave up on me at 64,000km....
     
    #4 Tideland Prius, Jun 14, 2008
  5. DeadPhish

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    We have an ocassional poster here, carbot, who's on his 2nd. The Gen 1 ( CARBOT1 ) only went 1 yr before he sold it and bought one of the first Gen 2's ( CARBOT2 ) in Jan 04. Last week he passed 200,000 miles.

    Mine at 78000 mi in 30 mo's is a piker in comparison. Go Prius.
     
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  6. ChapmanF

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    Or just about one light second, which somehow strikes me just now as kind of a nice way to think about it. :)

    -Chap
     
    #6 ChapmanF, Jun 14, 2008
  7. Devil's Advocate

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    He's not doing that much driving;
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    Purchased Feb. 2, 2005
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    238 182.9 kilometeres
    and I am not a taxi driver. Attorney actually.
     
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  8. Scummer

    Scummer Eh?

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    But your dad is not the devil, right? ;)
     
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