I knew Peugeot diesels were good

gyppo

Looks like it handled the miles well!:D

http://www.carzone.ie/usedcars/index.cfm?fuseaction=car&carID=488028

mike65

"Taxi!"

Mike.

Guy:Incognito

You can get some odd numbers on carzone if you set the mileage to a minimum of 200k.

bazz26

gyppo wrote:

Looks like it handled the miles well!:D

http://www.carzone.ie/usedcars/index.cfm?fuseaction=car&carID=488028

I reckon that is a typo. More than likely it is 92,280 miles. Very unlikely a garage would advertise a car and mention it had over 900k miles on it. It would attract zero interest. Most people are still uptight about cars with 100k miles on them not to mind 900k miles.

leeroybrown

That's definitely a typo/error. By my calculations, assuming an unrealistic 60mph average, that milage equates to over 7.5 hours driving per day since the car was bought.

311

you would probably be on your 4th engine block with that amount of miles

bazz26

leeroybrown wrote:

That's definitely a typo/error. By my calculations, assuming an unrealistic 60mph average, that milage equates to 7.5 hours driving per day since the car was bought.

By no means unrealistic though. Some taxis can be on the road 24 hours a day especially at weekends. They may have 2 or 3 drives if part of a fleet owned by a taxi firm.

mygt

A Merc is the best taxi to have - see below!!!!


http://www.mbusa.com/heritage/high-mileage.do

bazz26

mygt wrote:

A Merc is the best taxi to have - see below!!!!


http://www.mbusa.com/heritage/high-mileage.do

Not these days since they are owned by DaimlerChrysler. Alot of old Merc taxi drivers have switched to makes like Skoda, Toyota, etc as they give less trouble and cost alot less these days. MB are not as good as they used to be.

Max_Damage

bazz26 wrote:

Not these days since they are owned by DaimlerChrysler. Alot of old Merc taxi drivers have switched to makes like Skoda, Toyota, etc as they give less trouble and cost alot less these days. MB are not as good as they used to be.

Agreed, those old W123 Merc's are virtually indestructable.

Unfortantly though, slowly I can see Mercedes going down the same dark road Rover did many years ago.

leeroybrown

bazz26 wrote:

By no means unrealistic though. Some taxis can be on the road 24 hours a day especially at weekends. They may have 2 or 3 drives if part of a fleet owned by a taxi firm.

I'd still be astounded if there was somewhere in Ireland that a Taxi would have the right combination population and roads to cover an average of over 450 miles per day over that length of time no matter how many people drove it.

gyppo

mygt wrote:

A Merc is the best taxi to have - see below!!!!


http://www.mbusa.com/heritage/high-mileage.do

If you've ever been to Morrocco, you will see white W123 series mercs taxi-ing in their hundreds, all with mega-miles on them.

Also, another car you will see being plied as a taxi is the old Peugeot 205. These are normally red coloured, and cheaper fares applied.

I've no doubt that the ad on carzone is a typo, it gave me a laugh though.