OT: Talking Cars (Thursday!?)

4.6L V8 in the Crown Vic, Mercury Grand Marquis and Lincoln Town Cars.  It is a tank, reliable powerful and with 190k miles on it mine cranks up and still drives like new.  Was very sad when Ford discontinued this family of vehicles.  I think the engine and trans will outlast the car.

I drove a 1997 Honda Prelude with a factory 200 horsepower, 2.0L, 4 Cylinder VTEC.  Put 250k miles on it after normal maintenance and replacing various engine sensors (had to replace the throttle position sensor multiple times).  Was a fun, peppy car for a kid that didn't have a ton of money to drop into something with more power. 

The 6.7L Cummins turbo-diesel is a pretty impressive engine. 

My dad has one in his Ram 3500. He's put over 220,000 miles on it, and at least half of that is towing a 5th wheel that is pretty close to weight limit.

The only problem he ever had was a run of bad EGR valves. Once he went past the 100,000 mile barrier and didn't have the extended warranty, he fixed that by getting it chipped and modded.

We currently have the last iteration of the VW "cheater" diesel in my wife's Passat.  I absolutely love it and am sad they dropped diesel production.

My next vehicle will be loaded out diesel Grand Cherokee.  Yes, I'm a diesel fan. 

The 4.0 gasser in my Frontier has served me without issue for almost 11 years now as well.

My first vehicle was a 92 F150 with an inline 6. It had 382,000 miles on it when my sister wrecked it into a pole. Tires were showing wires and there was two inches of ice on the ground. Otherwise that thing never had an issue. It probably would have lasted another 50,000. I also had a 94 Chevrolet with a 350 motor that had 278,000 miles on it when it was lost in a garage fire. We had just replaced the throttle body and fuel pump and it was running like a new truck. 

Guessing most of the high mileage people in this thread also keep their vehicles maintained...probably not a coincidence

The Iron Duke! Lol, I kid, I kid...

The 4.6 Windsor in my 2003 F-150 was the best engine I ever owned. I put 138k on it and never had to do anything besides regularly scheduled fluid changes (it was up to 186k when I sold it) (I bought it used).  

I inherited a Plymouth Valiant with a 225 Slant Six.  Not fast but incredibly dependable.  If I'd maintained it properly -- stupid kid -- who knows how long it would have lasted.  As it was it was still seen around town in the 1990s years after I sold it.

It always amazed me that there was a version of the Plymouth Duster/ Dodge Dart with the slant 6 that was rated at 36 on the highway.  With a 3 or 4 speed transmission, a single barrel carb and mid 1970s "tech".

In the 90s I had a 71 and a 75 Olds Ninety Eight coupes and both had 455's.

We called the 71 "the living room" because it basically had a couch for a back seat. It had that old tapestry pattern they used in the early 70s too so it really looked like furniture. The hood would suck down just a little when I would gun it on the freeway. Scary fast for a big car.

The 75 was the original snow tank. I had those old bias-ply snow tires on the back and cherry bomb dual exhaust. I once tried to use a tow chain on the front of it to pull the 71 out of a parking spot that was basically a sheet of ice and this beast started pulling the 71 sideways across the parking lot. 

I doubt I'll ever have another vehicle as bulletproof tough as these two. Damn, I miss those cars.

When I was in high school my mom had a 1968 Lincoln Continental that weighed over 5,000 lbs and had a 460 CID engine.

That car was ridiculous. One time I borrowed it and was on the highway not paying attention and had the gas pedal about halfway down and looked down to discover I was going 95. 

That thing took a minute to get going from a stoplight, but man, once you were going the power was ridiculous.

This is a slight exaggeration but you could also watch the gas gauge mirror the speedometer. Meaning, you could watch the needle move in real time as the car got probably 6-8 mph.

That was a BOAT.