>I gave up my 1986 VW Golf Diesel with about 750,000Km on it (about 470,000 miles). My friend Lynn finally gave up her VW Jetta at about 500,000Km.
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>I'm convinced my Golf would have run forever because the engine was still in very good shape, and I've heard that if a car gets to that kind of mileage, it'll go on and on. Unfortunately the body was starting to disintegrate around me. It couldn't have passed another safety test, so...
>But I'm sticking with VW.

I also don't like automatic transmission :).