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Delivery man’s 30-year-old Toyota Corolla hits two million kilometre milestone

News Desk

Dec 15

A 72-year-old New Zealander named Graeme Hebley’s 1993 Toyota Corolla has clocked more than two million kilometres – and the car is still running efficiently to this day.

Hebley thinks the car can continue to be driven “forever” as the engine still performs flawlessly.

“I wouldn’t believe it could do two million without something going wrong. In my whole career, that is the highest I have seen,” said Hebley when he hit the milestone.

According to NDTV, Hebley has not had much trouble with the old car. He services it every two weeks at a local car care station. Shockingly, the service schedule has been the same for the past 22 years since he bought the car.

Hebley works as a newspaper delivery contractor and drives 5,000 kilometres a week.

Not many changes have been made to the vehicle since then besides replacing the wheel bearings and the cambelt about 20 times.

Hebley too has not gotten tired of driving the car for more than 20 years. “I couldn’t help but love my Toyota Corolla. Whatever I do, it just bounces back.” Hebley says he has no plans to stop doing long drives across the country anytime soon. “The car might outlast me at this point,” he added.

The 1993 Toyota Corolla owned by Hebley is a station wagon. Under the hood of this front-wheel drive vehicle is a 1.8-litre inline four-cylinder engine mated to a five-speed manual transmission. The engine can churn out 115 hp of maximum power and 156 Nm of peak torque.

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