Correct me if my information is incorrect, but I understand that the vehicle that has accumulated the most miles is a 240D from Greece, that was used by a taxi & was sold back to Mercedes Benz with 1.5 million miles on it.

Then there is the well known Volvo P1800 from N.Y. with a million plus. However, from the pictures I have seen of it, the car was beautiful - so it must have been a million extremely pampered and no-expenses-spared maintenance, as compared to the daily pounding the 1974 Greek 240D taxi that really looked like hell when MBz bought it back off the guy.

The most mileage I have ever personally seen is 465,000 miles on...a flathead Ford V8.

My own 1983 300D has a mundane run-of-the-mill 280,000 miles on it, with no major components having yet been rebuilt. It runs and looks just great, however needs new rocker arms and rockers soon.

THat car from Greece has had four engines in it..........

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Four engines in 1.5 million miles - that is an average of 375,000 miles each, on 4 cyl. carbeurated diesels. I wonder how many transmissions it went thru? I would imagine that the interior and body must have been pretty bad by the time the Greek guy sold it to MBz. However, I recall seeing a picture of it on the internet and it didn't look too bad.

Do you know anything about the famous Volvo P1800 from NY?