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I thought the postings of others' experiences were interesting, so here's my own (very brief) car-owning history:

1972: bought a 1966 Volkswagen Campmobile, drove it until 1979 when I got hired on an out-of-town job and knew I'd need something better. I kept it until the late 80's and sold it to a kid who completely restored it.

1979: bought a new Honda Accord. Drove that one 170,000 miles.

1986: bought a second Honda Accord. Drove this one 192,000 miles. Sold it for $800 to a guy who was driving by as I was putting the "for sale" sign into it.

1993: bought an Acura Integra. I kept this one for 12 1/2 years with no major problems. I just sold it after New Year's for $500 with 300,060 miles on it.

2005: bought a Toyota RAV4. At the rate I'm going, this may be my last car!

A challenge to any Freeper reading this message: how many of you have bought a brand-new car, and driven it over 300,000 miles?

- John

A challenge to any Freeper reading this message: how many of you have bought a brand-new car, and driven it over 300,000 miles?

Never have bought a "new" car... but my wife (then girlfriend) bought a 91 Chevy Beretta with 8000 miles on it - we just retired it with 354,000 two years ago. Still running , but was getting pretty ugly.

I will answer your challenge.

We had a 1993 Aerostar at work that was used to collect from vending route. Our collector drove that van well over 300K. Being that I am the service manager, I know personally that that van never had the tranny or engine apart.

Drove my own 93 aerostar 238K or thereabouts. Only reason I didn't go farther is that I was given an 89 Aerostar that had fewer miles and more toys, so I parked the 93. Never had the engine or tranny opened up on my personal 93 either.

I sure wish they still made those. I would buy one tomorrow.