December of '08, I only had 32K miles on the Jeep diesel. Then the first '87 300D got t-boned. Then in Jan 09 Freightliner laid us off. That required two round-robin trips between NC, FL, and TX to get a job nailed down, then the move down to TX. In April 09 when I got down here, the Jeep had 41K on it. Damn near 10K miles in 3 months.
But in my new job, I'm only 6 miles one way from work. Now the Jeep has close to 47K on it - only 6K miles in the last year. At that rate, I'll be too bloody old to drive by the time it even hits 100K.
My last pre-diesel car was an '87 Subaru wagon I bought brand new. When I retired from the Navy in '97, it only had 86K miles on it - that after several cross-country trips home on leave from Seattle to NC, and the final trip back to NC. When I finally let it go back in '05, it had 165K on it.
One thing I did discover during the 3 month 10K mile marathon last year - if you have to do a lot of long distance interstae driving, diesel is the only way to go - that 4500 lb brick of a Jeep Liberty averaged 32 mpg over the course of that mess.
