11th Jul 2023, 19:14
Most certainly the car had only 100K miles on it when the reviewer got it and the "1000000" is nothing more than a typo. This is much more plausible than someone driving a Geo Storm an average of 90K miles a year!
12th Jul 2023, 18:59
Could easily be more than that. I found other Geo models from that same time period which got well over a quarter million miles & even a Metro around a half million. Geo did a nice job in that time period.
14th Jul 2023, 00:33
Big deal. Even if you "found" some Geo that supposedly went 250K-500K miles - any car can accumulate that mileage as long as you A: manage not to total it and B: just keep repairing/replacing parts that break or wear out -- including engines and transmissions. And Geo didn't build any of those cars either -- they were all Isuzus/Suzukis/Toyotas with a Geo badge.
Now explain how someone could have driven it a million miles in just an 11 year period. That's an average of 250 miles a day... 365 days a year.
14th Jul 2023, 06:09
It could be more than 100k, but I’d expect more than just the struts would need replacement by a million miles. Not sure the odometer went that high in these cars anyway, so unless the first owner gave details about the provenance when this second owner purchased it, I think it’s hard to verify. If we could have seen pictures, that’d be easier to see if it passes the smell test of a million mile car.
15th Jul 2023, 18:49
Easy, could have been a delivery driver/courier or in a rural area with a long commute or generally just long distances between destinations on empty roads. 1000 miles/day would be less plausible but not a few hundred. A “normal” person who commutes 200 days per year to a job 100 miles each way could get about a half million miles in this same time period.
For all we know, it could have been badged as a yellow cab or something else too & been an Uber or Lyft type car before this existed. Seems like a good candidate considering it got 36mpg on the highway.
16th Jul 2023, 16:48
The review was only posted 20 years ago. You want pictures? Go find the car(s) this one was crushed and recycled into, probably in salvage yard by now.
16th Jul 2023, 18:05
A rinky-dink Geo Storm used as a yellow cab? Talk about being an uncomfortable, cramped passenger.
16th Jul 2023, 18:51
Doesn’t matter. There were literally pictures available on Cardomain until that site was decommissioned a while back. For all we know, the pictures were cross posted elsewhere, too.
1st Aug 2023, 23:26
Couldn't have been that uncomfortable and cramped---remember, it did travel A MILLION miles.
11th Jul 2023, 04:39
“Survived” 1 million miles may not be the right way to frame it. It was high mileage but only 11 years old when the owner bought it. If a car from the 80’s reached 1 million now, I would call that “surviving” after 40 years & all those miles. The Geo owner must have had a long commute or a lot of long distance travel at about 90k miles per year for the first owner.