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What car, now or in the passed, is the longest lasting most trouble free cheap to drive car made to date?

was it a diesel, or was it a gas burner

Public Comments

1. VW Beetle.
2. Definately not the VW Beetle. It had so many design faults and the engine struggled to do 100 000 miles without an overhaul. It's engine did not even had an oilfilter. Cylinderheads styds and plugholes stripped very easily. A good cheap car was the Citroen CV 2. And most small Japanese cars were good.
3. The longest lasting, most trouble free cars ever were the Mercedes 123 body Diesels, the 300D, 240D or 300CD. Not cheap when new, although you can find them very cheaply today. Even after 20 years, they will outlast most modern cars. 26 mpg, and they never break.
4. Past* not passed.
5. Benz for sure! Retired the 75 300TD at almost 900,000 KM. Have an 84 300TD, and replaced the original exhaust system 2 years ago by ourselves, because they use brass bolts - easy to undo any time. As for VW's, not very likely. They have a sickness when it comes to witing harnesses.
6. Aside from the W123 models one of the most reliable vehicles made was the mid 1970s Toyota Celica. They are still running about today, one of the few 70s cars that are. I had one for 19 years and for ten of them replaced nothing but tyres, batteries, oil, grease, coolant, ignition points and plugs, one headlamp and about two sets of tail lamps.
7. anything from Toyota
8. the longest lasting car i ve seen were the 80's 300E. Ive seen ppl drive these things into the ground without any maintenace. And they just keep running. Those 103 engines are amazing.
9. A diesel Mercedes was built to last.