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TopBanana 22 September 2004 02:07 PM

2,800,000 mile Mercedes
 
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1111264.html

Midmotorsteve 22 September 2004 02:28 PM

yeah its in The SUN today, taxi man must have made a bit of cash :)

brickboy 22 September 2004 02:50 PM

Wonder if he had any problems with number 3 big end ;):D

Brendan Hughes 22 September 2004 03:22 PM

Who's he had in the back then?

TonyBurns 22 September 2004 03:58 PM

Not bad! for its age ;)
I did see a ford mondeo for sale in the autotrader a few weeks back, ex private hire car, 98 R reg, 567k (or was that 576k?) on the clock :eek: it was only about 450 quid, pretty cheap really ;) dunno if it was the original engine though....

Tony:D

MGJohn 22 September 2004 08:07 PM

Remarkable - also remarkable that this driver must have spent most of his time since 1981 behind the steering wheel. Just think of the time involved doing that even if averaging a highish speed.

TopBanana 22 September 2004 08:23 PM

Over 300 miles a day on average!!

Tim-Grove 22 September 2004 09:00 PM


Sachinides is due to hand over his record-breaking car to the company for display in Stuttgart, on Friday.
Laugh if he writes it off tomorrow

Dapster 22 September 2004 09:15 PM

Was in a Merc 300D mini cab with about 500k miles a few years ago in London run by 2 brothers. Basically one did the night shift and slept all day, the other vice versa. Brother one would get the car home and jump out, the brother 2 would get in and do another 12 hours. The car apparently didn't get cold between services!!

I have a feeling that our friend Mr Sachinides may be getting a shiny new E Class for his troubles....

Dracoro 22 September 2004 10:07 PM

If only mercs were still made like that. Many cabbies out in europe are shifting away form mercs, many going for skodas (I can see the Superb model being rather popular).


Dapster - probably the best way to run a car. Most engine damage is done when it's cold so if it never gets cold, it should last well. :)


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