How far has Elon's space-launched Tesla travelled by now?

Many cars are now capable of doing 200k-300k miles easily with proper maintenance.

For mundane steel cars to achieve that, e.g. our 21yr old Focus now on 162,000 miles, the 'proper maintenance' would need to include careful attention to early signs of underbody corrosion, something not usually done at dealer garage services.

Nevertheless it is a good achievement and Toyota backs their cars with 10 years warranty now.

I bet they do. This warranty is presumably intended to tie in owners, no matter what their mileage, into at least nine dealer garage services which will probably add several thousand pounds of unnecessary highly priced work to the cost of ownership, and will probably not include the careful preventive economical maintenance that I have applied to our Focus - which in our nearly eighteen years of ownership has never had a garage 'service'.

Edited by John F on 10/01/2022 at 10:47

Loads of Toyotas in SE Asia run to these mileages. Bangkok taxis are mostly Corolla Altis and are usually run to 700k km before they are retired.

"Ex work mate had a Montego estate with the Perkins diesel, had 400,000 on it last time I saw him."

I spend far too much time on this young bloke's channel but there's a Montego with well over a million miles featured - jump to 6.15 in the vid

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UoVCuzbYY0

Ex work mate had a Montego estate with the Perkins diesel, had 400,000 on it last time I saw him.