Craigslist Find of the Decade: 940,000 mile '95 Honda Civic

Posted Oct 1st 2007 6:31PM by Jonathon Ramsey
Filed under: Coupes, Etc., Honda

There's high mileage, and then there's this. A 1995 Honda Civic is for sale in Atlanta with, count 'em, 939,899 miles. That's 200-plus miles a day. Every day. Including Sundays. For 12 years. It even has a CARFAX report from when the car had 907,000 miles on it. According to the seller, the car runs like new, with no leaks, no noises, no oil burning, and not even a scratch on the body. In fact, the only blemish listed is that one of the dashboard lights doesn't work, and that's only sometimes.

The car is on its ninth timing belt, ninth water pump, and fourth clutch. But the engine and transmission are original, as are the floor mats. The car even comes with records. The most incredible thing isn't the mileage, though. It's how the owner put the miles on the car: driving on business trips from Atlanta ... to Seattle ... and San Francisco. We want to know what kind of business -- or what kind of boss -- makes a guy drive across the country and back, and then some, every single month for 12 straight years.

To paraphrase The Proclaimers, if you buy this car then you can drive a million miles and you can drive a million more ...

Thanks for the tip, Ronnie!

[Source: Craigslist]

Tags: 1995 civic, 1995Civic, civic million miles, CivicMillionMiles, honda civic, honda million miles, HondaCivic, HondaMillionMiles

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Dan @ Oct 1st 2007 6:38PM

WOW!

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SPG @ Oct 1st 2007 6:38PM

That car looks frikken great!
I've always known that Hondas were good cars but I thought only Volvo's could run that long.

Needless to say that very good looking coupe (love the wheels) has paid for itself.

Think of what the factory would of given the original owner if they had kept it and driven it a million miles.

A new Hybrid Civic perhaps?

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DaveH @ Oct 2nd 2007 11:30AM

Given your posting name and photo, you might be interested in this article:
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=538098

Peter Gilbert drove his Saab 900 SPG for over 1,000,000 miles before donating it to a local car museum. Saab later gave him a new car, "just because". Can be done, with a combination of a good care and good maintenance...and a bit of luck, I suppose.

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SPG @ Oct 2nd 2007 1:51PM

I am aware of that story and I love it!
Same engine and Turbo for the entire time!
Let's see how long he can go in that 9-5.

Thanks Dave.

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Joanne @ Oct 7th 2007 7:10PM

I owned from new a honda 97 SE I just now got a new car. Had toyota before also, brand new, also a very good car.
My honda accord SE gave me with 1 timing belt, oil changes every 3,000 miles, and when the car was 8 years old, I started doing Oil changes every 2 thousand miles.
Battery 2x, and a couple new belts.
The car was a excellent car, brakes only when needed.
I had 323,750 when I traded my car for a new car.
The water pump steering, engine, transmission etc, was all original from new.
The car was driven mostly highway miles, not alot intown.
The reason I traded in the car (which I thought I was going to its funeral, and wanted to cry) was because all of a sudden oil started to leak into the engine and I figured at car at 10 years old ( and original owner) was time for a change, I didn't want to put more money into the car. Thought eventually soon perhaps major things might happen, and figured I would use some of that money for a downpayment on a new car.
I loved the car, the ride was nice and it was good to me.
As far as buying new cars, I would never buy a american car again. I have in the past, had nothing but heartache from the day it was taken out, the garage would have the car more than I would the first year, and when I inquired about lemon law the jerk at the dealership *(manager) told me I would have to first get a attorney, then by the time it comes to court, no judge would give you a new car. I was dumb to believe him,and until they found the problem with the car, which took about a week after expiration of warranty year later, it turned out to be a peice of metal stuck in the flywheel of the transmission, which then they had to replace the trans, and other problem took them a few months more which was knocking when backing out of the driveway in a certain direction. Turned out to be the bearing was defected.
I told them from the beginning, check the left front wheel cause of the knocking, on the paper when I had picked up the car, they checked the right wheel, and said nothing found.
I had a volvo, the outside of the volvo, was strong and nice, but the interior was horrible. The door handles in the interior were made of a sponge. After having the car 2 years, the handles started drying up and crumbling. The knobs to the radio and heater would break off and had to replace the knobs 2 x., the brakes when you had to replace them, always when you went to stop, the whole block could hear you stop, the screeching was horrible. and those were volvo brakes from the volvo garage.
plus a mercedes I had which I had, every time I would go thru a puddle of water in the rain, or just a puddle of water after the rain, my steering wheel would lock, and I couldn't turn it. I would bring it to the service, and could never find the problem. I traded it in, before I would have a accident

plus I had a LTD ford, which was a year old, and the engine caught on fire as I pulled up to my house from food shopping. I have never had a problem with my honda or my toyota, and from now on, I will never buy anything but......

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brbjdl2152 @ Oct 7th 2007 4:49AM

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