"cars that last a million miles"

[Pu241]

Festiva mentioned prominently in article!

At last some respect!

Owner thinks mid 30's is good mileage, must have auto!
Wonder what they would think of mid 40's or better you get from a 5 spd!!!!!!!!!!!

http://tinyurl.com/2a7p8s

Pu241

[lilred]

that is cool, mine has over 215,000mi on it

[Damkid]

that is cool

[Dave G]

Cool! I e-mailed a thanks to the author, and included a link to http://www.fordfestiva.com/forum/index.php

[packrat427]

That is a awesome find John !!

Now calling Jeff !! 5.0 zone , You need to reply to that , 500,000 miles and original owner

[Gforcefd]

I love that article, im glade we are getting some recognition for our love of cars. I hope he does a follow up article :-)

I just hope I can get my hands on a nice body festiva before to many people wake up!

[freshtiva]

the link isnt working for me

[neanderpaul]

Cool props the festiva!

[25Horseplay]

I wonder how many is any Festivas have reached 1 million miles yet?

[freshtiva]

Cool, the festiva gets some recognition. Between the wife and I we have put at least 500,000 mile between three of them and they are all still running great. In some ways they are getting better everyday.

[neanderpaul]

I've never heard of a million mile festiva. 500,000 is the most I know of. The last I heard on that cool looking volvo was 1.75 million miles, now it's at like 2.5 million. The former high mileage leader was a beetle and it got totalled. Can you imagine the frustration there?

[5.0zone]

I'm not at the 500,000 mile mark yet, but should be there by summer
It tripped 481,000 yesterday and next month it will be 19 years old.
Long live Festiva!

[freshtiva]

I'm not at the 500,000 mile mark yet, but should be there by summer
It tripped 481,000 yesterday and next month it will be 19 years old.
Long live Festiva!

Too bad your car wasn't in the article.

[darkdan]

My goal is to keep my original engine in till 200k. I'm at 160k now, but I don't know if I'm going to make it.

Due to the previous owner (old lady) letting the head gasket get super bad for god only knows how long has really hurt that engine.

Even with several thorough auto-rx cleanins, synthetic oil for most of the past 57k miles, FP60 by www.lubecontrol.com the engine is starting to show it's age. I'm burning about 20 oz of oil every 1000 miles. The consumption just keeps getting worse as time goes on. =(

My crown vic which was beat on my the Iowa State Patrol for 127k miles and now has been beat on by me for another 22k miles only burns a quart every 2500 miles after auto-rx. It has 4 more cylinders to burn it in too.

I curse that old lady for not taking care of my baby before I bought it!

Nowadays engines outlast the rest of the car. Transmissions, bodies, suspension is what ends up making the car not worth fixing. That's why police departments sell the vics near 100k miles. Not because of the engine, but because they don't want to start replacing tie rod ends, ball joints, pitman arms, shocks, struts, etc.

[darkdan]

I remember when I started this years ago:

http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?fordmile&1

I sent it to Ford when it had about 400 sigs.