I've gotten excessive mileage from every vehicle i've ever maintained. Almost anything that isnt chronicly *bad* will last for two or three hundred thousand miles at least. I've observed that MB owners maintain there vehicles, on a whole, much, much better than most. I imagine this has as much to do with there longevity as anything else. You can run anything into the ground in 100K miles with negligent maintanance practices.
Heck, I've never had a VW with less than 200k on it..
