Humble 1993 Toyota Corolla that hit two million miles: ‘It will always work’

Toyota Corolla 1993 of a New Zealand man covered more than two million kilometresAnd the car continues to run efficiently to this day.

Graeme Hebley, 72, noted he hit the milestone in March of this year and You think your car will probably run “forever” at its current speed.

He bought the vehicle in 2000 when the Corolla only had 50,000 miles on the odometer. Mr Hebley, who has worked as a contractor since 1968, He racked up the mileage quickly through his work.

He drives from Wellington to New Plymouth in the country’s North Island, returning six days a week for work. It takes four hours and 45 minutes to make that one-way trip.

Your Toyota Corolla, which still has the original engine and transmission, He drives almost 5,000 kilometers every working week. To keep things under control, Hebley has his car serviced every fortnight. He’s been doing the same thing for the past 22 years. In that time he changed the timing belt 20 times.

Mechanic John Sherman confirmed the record after years of servicing the Corolla. “If I hadn’t worked on it, I wouldn’t have believed it. I wouldn’t think I could do two million kilometers without something going wrong,” he told the New Zealand Herald.

Sherman credited the car’s impressive career to the reliability of older Toyota vehiclesfrequent service and ongoing vehicle maintenance by Hebley.

He said he had never seen anything like the distance the Corolla had traveled, recalling that the closest was a car that had traveled 700,000 kilometres.

“But nothing like that. In my entire career, it’s the most I’ve ever done,” he said. Hebley still takes his long drives across New Zealand’s North Island every week and says he has no plans to stop. to drive anytime soon. .

‘How could you not love this car? Whatever you do, go back,’ she said. The driver thinks the Corolla “might outlast me right now.”