Tangent,

I don't, at all, doubt that a bug can be taken to 200,000 miles, but at what cost in time spent on the thing?

Show me a beetle with over 100,000 miles, and I'll show you an engine that has been apart and probably more than once. It also will have had leaking oil cooler, leaking push rod tubes, and MANY valve adjustments.

You can make anything go many miles if you just keep working on it and replacing and rebuilding as needed.

To compare a beetle with 200,000 miles to a Benz diesel with 200,000 miles, you are looking at lots of work done on the beetle and not much more than preventive maintenance on the Benz.

Have YOU ever driven a beetle for any number of miles at all? If so, how many?

Have a great day,