Toyota Corolla cracks two-million kilometres in New Zealand

The grey-import wagon is driven almost 5000km a week – and requires a service twice every months.

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A 1993 Toyota Corolla is New Zealand has clocked a near-mythical 2,000,000km since new.

As first reported by the Whanganui Chronicle, local newspaper delivery contractor Graeme Hebley bought the station wagon

from Japan in 2000 with 80,000km on the odometer.

He has since driven approximately 5000km every week since, between Wellington and New Plymouth for work.

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Due to its intense routine, the vehicle is serviced every second week and has had its cambelt changed “almost” 20 times.  

However, the engine, transmission, bodywork, and drivetrain are entirely original.

“That era of Toyota has such built-in reliability,” MR Hebley told the Chronicle. “[But if it wasn’t so frequently serviced] it just wouldn’t work.”

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The Guinness World Record for the most kilometres travelled by a non-commercial road vehicle is held by a 1966 Volvo P1800S, driven by New Yorker Irv Gordon (shown wit the car above).

Mr Gordon bought the car new off the showroom floor, and had clocked 3.2 million miles – or 5.15 million kilometres – by the time of his death in 2020. You can read more by clicking here.

In 2017 Mercedes-Benz also reported a 1992 200 D sedan had clocked 1 million kilometres in Germany, with one of its own engineers behind the wheel.

Photo Credits: The New Zealand Herald

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