1 million km Echo

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Originally Posted by Kal-El

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!

Trini isn't alone either. There is an older guy on YouTube whose video is integrated into a Kendall Oil Internet commercial. He lives in Louisiana and drove (for pleasure) a 2007 Corolla 524,000 miles in about 3 1/2 years between late 2007 and early 2011.

Another guy on YouTube averaged even more per year. He does deliveries and works all around Iowa and 3 nearby states. IIRC, he bought a 2009 Corolla in 2009 at Toyota of Des Moines and in 3 years and (doing deliveries) put somewhere between 503,000 and 509,000 miles on the car.

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.

I agree that manufacturers should put in 7 figure odometers.

Poor 2nd Gen Prius owners. Since you specifically pointed out the 2nd Gen, I assume that was corrected with the 3rd Gen?

Re 99,999...I'd almost forgotten about that. Crazy. My mother bought an Acura Integra new in the late 80s, and I think that was the first car she ever owned that had a 100,000 mile plus odometer.

The Yaris is, I believe, the first car I've owned that has a digital (non 'rolling wheels') odometer.

In 2007 I saw an old 'rolling wheel numbers' gas pump in Tupelo, MS (visited Elvis' birthplace), and that was the first one of those I'd seen since the 80s.