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by ldkfj 1832 days ago
I have a 2000 Jeep Cherokee that I bought from a friend at 25K miles in the Colorado mountains. It spent a handful of years there, a handful in Salt Lake City, a handful in Lake Tahoe, and another handful in Bellingham, WA, with many drives to Mt. Baker, of course :). She is at 190K and rusting but mechanics love telling me she is in great condition. Most reliable vehicle I have ever known. Simply won’t give up.
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I sold my 96 last year with 318k miles on it. Ran perfectly.

It's around 325k now, I sold it to an acquaintance.

I ran into a local at the feed store who had one, and chatted him up. Turns out he has a whole little fleet of them. Easy to work on, run forever, cheap, and lots of spare parts around.

My wonder car is a 2000 Toyota Echo with 280,000 miles. It seems like magic that it keeps running. The maintenance has been oil, brakes, battery, ball joints, wheel bearings, shocks and struts and that's it.
I are had a series of corollas in the family. Even without maintenance they keep on going, a terrible thing to do but somehow they keep on going.