1 million km Echo

[Kal-El]

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

620,000 + miles. That is is an amazing number of miles. I hit 250,000 miles earlier today in 10 fewer days than it took Trini to hit 500,000 miles (6 years 9 months 2 weeks vs 6 years 9 months 3 weeks and 3 days). I've averaged a bit over 100 per day (5720 miles in the next 78 days to be at exactly 100, so Trini must have averaged about or over 200 miles per day for the first 500,000 miles. I believe two different 1 million kilometer ECHO drivers posted comments to Trini's old YouTube channel.

It's hard to imagine driving that many miles. If one thinks about everywhere they've been just driving 100K you realize how much it really is.

With Trini_per4mance, he actually averaged much more than 200 per day early on. He reached 150K in the first year. That's just nuts. He'd spend something like 8-10 hours everyday on the highway doing his courier job! In the last couple of years he hasn't used his Yaris for work as he's doing something else. If he had continued his 1st year pace he would have driven over 1,000,000 miles in under 7 years!

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

. I wonder what the OP means exactly by 'retired' (traded in, put up on blocks, put it in a garage, parted out, etc.).

I do wonder myself. He never says on his YouTube comments what he did with it.

He says he was disappointed when the ODO stopped at 999,999 KM. Some might expect it to reset to 0 like the old analog ones but these digital ones just freeze. Too bad.

I think automakers should start allowing 7 figure readings on odometers since it's achieved by a decent amount of people. It wouldn't be that difficult to leave space for one more number. A frozen ODO really sucks.

There's many 2nd Gen Prius owners who are stuck at 299,999 miles. For some reason, Toyota messed up this particular odometer max. The Prius is one of the most reliable cars so that mileage is no big deal yet it freezes before 300K.

Remember when odometers only went up to 99,999? That was ridiculous. As if the automakers didn't think their cars could go past just that. This was right up through the '80's. Now, 100K is achieved with cars still performing as new.