..yes, to be one, too, sure.

Cars with extreme mileages are fascinating for me. Recently I saw an ad in my classic-car-magazine for a Mercedes 170 DS from the early 50ies with original 1.2 Million kilometers. They asked 10 000 Euro for it, so it wasn't a point of discussion for me to think more about it.

Isn't it great, what a history such cars do have? If they are still running in roadworthy condition, this makes them much more interesting. I wouldn't have a doubt to trust in their reliability. Why they shall be brkoem down right now, after that years and mileage?


When I'm thinking about millionairs, I have a few cars in my mind:

A few years ago that magazine had an article about the "top"-car, the Volvo 1800 from the USA (New Jersey?) and it's owner. There you go:
http://imcdb.org/vehicle_52891-Volvo-1800-S-1965.html
They wrote, that the former record-holder was a 1947 or 1948 VW Typ 1, also in the USA, but this cars war destroyed by an acident, so the Volvo got the pole position.


I remember a Mercedes Benz-advertise in the 80ies, where they had shown a Mercedes 180 D [W120]-taxi from Cyprus (or Crete, I don't know?) with 2.5 million km. I don't know, if this car is now in the Mercedes-museum, but the have a mileage-millionaire in their exhibition.

Two or three years ago the VW Museum could buy a VW Golf I Diesel with more than a million km, but the idiots don't.

As I wrote in the database, a fromer neighbour had(or still has) his Mercedes 280 S with 1.5 million km.

And I remember the Mercedes W 123-taxi from Gran Canaria, too.


Yes, sooner or later I will look closer to catch a millonaire...

Here is an article about a man's 1991 Pontiac 6000 that has over 500,000 miles on it.
Pretty good considering it's a GM

http://www.gminsidenews.com/forums/f19/one-tough-pontiac-6000-a-40206/

I remember seeing another article about it a long time ago, but it had a picture of the car in that one. Sadly I can't find it, but here is a picture of what the car looks like, for some of our non-US members that aren't familiar with this paticular model (it basically is a rebadged Cutlass Cirea, Century, Celebrity)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/89-91_Pontiac_6000.jpg/800px-89-91_Pontiac_6000.jpg

At first I think, that youtube, posted by Antoine in the database, is worth to be here:
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=prvMuCTSvJY


Today I (resp. my Omega) made a first step on the way to a millionaire! We've reached the quarter-million! At 15:40, at the parking-lot of the LIDL-supermarket in Gadbeck, the 250 000 were on the tacho!


In the same moment there were two other cars beside, which are a bit worth to remark. Left of my car was parking a Daihatsu Terios. The only remarkable thing for me about that model is only, that I've never recognized or registrated it in my mind, not before we had it in 2006 as a rental car on the Easter Island. Yes, I drove a car, which name I don't know. One year later, Antoine has told it to me, here in the forum.

The other car was on the street, one of these Opel Astra's with an antenna of "Google Street View"


P.S. Yes, for political reason, you better should boycot LIDL, I know. But I wanted to have the cheap Spanish red wine and the Greek style yoghurt with honey.

that was by Chicomarx, another Belgian member of the site
(well maybe he is also named Antoine ?)

You buy at Lidl Ingo?

@CCF: sometimes, but not often - only when I want to get again the Spanish red wine, a real premium-product: 1,19 Euro per liter.
I don't care, if real wine-lovers are shocked about that. It tasted good and don't bring me a heartburn (as many other wines do).


Otherwise: I you would try to buy always political correct thing in political/economical/ecological correct shops, it will be really hard and stressy to survive in the modern world

@Antoine: sorry, I've only seen a posting of a Saab-freak and have seen the Belgian flag. Nice, that you aren't alone.

I was just wondering since LIDL is considered, well, it is actually a cheaper supermarket, so its products are are always cheap and therefore usually bad quality, goes without saying, but well anybody is of course free of buying whenever they can or like to, it was just that i was wondering if you went to them because of any specific reason, now i know it anyway the next time you buy that Spanish wine could you tell me where is it from please?

not 'always'.
The price is not especially linked to quality.

Hence why i said "usually" and not "always" but in the case of these supermarkets food usually is worse than more expensive you can find in other supermarkets from better brands.

We are greatful in Finland that Lidl arrived. Before they came (about 5 years ago) there was no foreign competition in food sector at all. Lidl is now the cheapest place to buy food and I visit there maybe two times a month. Lidl has forced food prices down more than 10% in nationwide because of competition. But we still need more foreign companies here - prices are still much too high. There were rumours about 'Aldi' coming to Finland but sadly it didn't happen.

In Finland it isn't possible to buy wine products from food stores. There is a government monopoly in alcohol sales. Cheapest 1 liter wine offered in a cardboard box costs 7,00 Euro

@CCF: LIDL offers more premium brands than Aldi, brands you can find in other supermarkets, too.

Don't think, that the food in one marekt is better than in the other one. For fresh, non packed stuff like fruits, vegetables and meat, it could be, but the other things are often made from the same company, but the packing have different logo's.

And today, in the EC it's getting more and more, that you will find the same stuff in other countries, too. Look, how many things have multilingual badges.

I just have checked the wine. It's annother example for fooling the customers. It's just written "Vino Tinto 2007 Valencia D.O.", no company-name. On the back, in tiny letters, it's written "bottled at" and then follows just a number. The number starts with D-RP. This means, that it's bottled in Germany, country Rheinland-Pfalz - in wine-factories, where all kind of different wines were bottled. The "raw-material" is delivered by big tank-trucks.
So I don't really believe, that it 100% original Spanish wine, and not, that it's 100% chemical-free.

The biggest of these hidden wine-filling-companies, the company Pieroth, was connected with the big wine-scandal in the 80ies. They sweetenend Austian wine with glycol, the frost protection for cars.
Why nowadays everything shall be o.k. there? And o.k. with wine for 1.19 Euro per liter?


@Raul: don't you make "filling up"-travelling? Scandinavians are well known for that?
The whole pub-business in Tallin and Riga is living from Finnish and Swedish tourists.
Somewhere I still have a nice pic, how my Swedish friends werey busy to fill up their VW Vento with car-parts and alcohol. It was so full, that the'd thrown single beer-cans behind and even under the seats. The car was so overloaded, that they couldn't take the ferry any more. They had to drive several kilometers more to take the bridges.