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Chrysler CEO calls owner of million mile Dodge Ram

Chrysler CEO calls owner of million mile Dodge Ram

Posted Apr 3rd 2006 7:59AM

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Robert Swan’s wife rung up Chrysler one day on the off chance the automaker might be interested to know her husband’s 1995 Dodge Ram 3500 just passed its millionth mile on the odo. Chrysler CEO Tom LaSorda was interested enough to leave the plush confines of his office at the Chrysler Group headquarters and take a trip down to the company’s call center down the road. LaSorda and Maggie Gentry, a 20-year call center veteran, rang up Robert Swan to speak personally with the prolific driver.

The Dodge Ram’s durability earned Swan a copy of the book “Forward: The American Heritage of DaimlerChrysler” inscribed with the words, “Please enjoy this great book on the history of our company. Tom LaSorda, CEO.”

A book! Get this guy a new truck, Tom.

[Source: DaimlerChrysler]

Category: Etc., Daimler, Dodge

Tags: daimlerchrysler, dodge, million miles, MillionMiles, odometer

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i_like_lincolns

It's fake. At 999,999 miles the clock returns to zero as there aren't enough digits to make the number 1,000,000 miles. You have six digits on your odometer not SEVEN lol :-) ha ha
We have proof! I have a 1992 Dodge Ram that passed half a million miles on a 3500mile road trip through six states. I will be putting it on Facebook latter on this year as the previous owners have their story they want to include.
Signed from a True Dodge Owner CA USA 2011.

November 07 2011 at 11:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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get_a_clue

ok you and most people below me are incredibly ignorant. That is not a real photo of his dash! it is obviously computer generated to provide as an example. idiots.

March 05 2012 at 11:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

1 reply to get_a_clue's comment

The fact that this many people saw the picture and thought it was the actual odometers worries me that these people possibly breed and are alive to pass their idiocy on to others... O_O

seriously people!? are you kidding me!

October 10 2012 at 1:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down

cwiy

how many dashboards did he have to replace in that million miles? they are only good for about 40000 miles so i estimate about 23 dash replacements to make a million miles...oh, and at least 5 sun visors, 3 mirrors.

October 09 2010 at 6:33 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

hyrulenick

I think this story is a hoax, mainly because of the picture with the supposed 1,000,000 miles. First of all, it is mighty unlikely a pick-up truck would have a speedometer that goes to 200 mph. Second, odometers today (if they are even analog as it shows there) have six digits, not seven. And lastly, as you obviously see, 160 mph is shown twice.

February 23 2010 at 6:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

lamebear

Tsk! Tsk! Some of you people amaze me, do you actually think everyone lives in a city, and drives back and forth to work? I'm in Wyoming, how would you like working a 20,000 acre Ranch? Don't think they exist? Come on out, we'll show you! I can put 300+ miles on my Dodge Diesel everyday, especially when the weather is bad, and feeding livestock, and the weather is always bad in Wyoming in the winter, and when we stop to put out the feed that Diesel motor keeps on running. My truck doesn't get shut off until around 16 hours everyday. Hardly any upkeep either, except for fuel filters, and changing the oil and filter regularly. Gasoline motors SUCK!

February 15 2008 at 12:33 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

kobalt1963

I'm with you! In my line of work, I know guys who rack up the miles in "gas guzzlers" by pulling their trailers or hauling materials to out of state jobs. And that 160mph twice on the speedometer is definitely freaky.

February 14 2008 at 10:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

3406E

I've heard of a lot of people putting over a million miles on a Cummins powered Dodge. As for trucking, somebody said most companies stop using a truck at 150-200k, maybe stretching it to 500k. This is ridiculous! My grandfather has at least three Freightliners with over a million miles and four other trucks with over 900k, and I know an owner operator with over 3.5 million miles on his truck, with only one overhaul! Look on AutoTrader.com and you'll see two year old trucks with over 200k on them. I called a dealer this week to check out a 2003 Cummins and it had 190k on it. Pick up any issue of Overdrive magazine and you'll see Mobile Delvac ads with O/Os who have over a million miles on their trucks, which may only be 9-10 years old. Averaging over 300 miles a day is no big deal. I drove a Ram 3500 for my grandfather last summer from Charlotte to Durham, NC and back , about 300 miles, in about 7 hours, including delivery time. That truck had 200k on it. Believe the story, don't worry about the clipart.

May 29 2007 at 11:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Estevan Trujillo

http://www.turbodieselregister.com/

The TDR has many million mile engines that are still being used today. Mostly fleet vehicles but some are personal. For a Cummins Turbodiesel 150k is just breaking it in.

January 18 2007 at 5:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bob Jones

Huh 1,000,000 miles right what a loser !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

January 10 2007 at 10:33 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mark S

I've got a 94 Dodge Dakota (for sale) with 200,000 miles on it. About 2/3 of that was during an 8 year period where I had to commute 40 miles to work.

December 06 2006 at 4:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

phoenexius

plausible but I say this one's a fake

I don't know of any speedos that have 7 digits (okay some of the old LCD displays might have had a leading '1' just in case)

as per ebay item (190059295624)
94-97 Dodge 3500 Series (5.9L) speedo should look like:
http://media.mainstreetcommerce.com/3.9/media/item_image_sheet.aspx?domain=lkqonline.com&item_guid=0e0ee52e-ba9f-4ec4-970b-4e6c661aa804

December 06 2006 at 4:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply