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Guy King
01-21-2005, 03:18 AM
The message <1105113578.807775.112410@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups. com>
from chandy@totalise.co.uk contains these words:

> Just back from the US and have a question. My mother-in-law is driving
> what seems a pretty standard 2.0 4-cylinder toyota corolla, about 6
> years old, 115k. I'm looking at that milage and thinking 'back home
> that would be pretty high, wouldn't expect more than 50k more out of
> this, tops' but the engine sounds as sweet as the day it was made and
> everything is running nicely.

115k high? What planet are you on? My elderly Montego's near 180k and
isn't even fully run in.

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