260k miles for a taxi engine is extremely impressive, I'll bet 90% of those miles are 'in-town' driving... lugging around 4 fat american tourists w/ 12 suitcases, punctuated by extended idling and topped off w/ the cheapest fuel they can find.

"Mr. Sachinidis bought his car in Germany in 1981 with around 220,000 km on the clock, before driving it back to Thessalonica. Here it was in service as a taxi 24 hours a day until July 2004"

thats 23 years divided by 11 engines is approximately 2 years per engine. Figger 8000 hours per year and you get an astonishing 16000 hours per rebuild... that is an insane amount of hours.

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