- Posted on Thursday, July 27th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
Milwaukee Area Longest-Lasting Trucks
More than 4.1 million miles.
That’s how far just 17 members of the Chevy Silverado 200,000 Mile Club have driven their trucks. The Longest Lasting Truck club highlights the durability and quality of Chevy trucks, the most dependable, longest-lasting trucks on the road. All 17 appeared at a club event that was part of a radio remote by WMIL-FM 106 on July 7 in West Allis, Wisc., just west of Milwaukee.
The longest-lasting Silverado at this event belonged to Kyle Burke, with more than 289,000 miles. Kyle said, “I always have had Chevys — they are dependable.”
Many of the contestants talked about Chevy’s reliability. Mike Ringwood said, “I buy Chevys because they have power and are long-lasting.”
William Simmons echoed that point, saying, “Dependability is what makes me buy from Chevy. I’ve had them since the 1950s. They have stood up to normal wear and tear, and Chevy has stood behind everything they have said. I can’t ask for more.”
Drop by the club’s web site to read what other long-time Chevy drivers have to say or to enter your truck and its story in the contest. Entries will be accepted until Aug. 13, 2006.
2 Comments
Ryan Ford
There is so much talk that Chevy is the best, but every one knows that Ford is with out a doubt the number 1 selling truck because it is the most dependable, long lasting truck on the road. I have a 94′ Ford F-150 with 290,000 miles with not any trouble.
Matt
It would be nice if the supposed “quality of Chevy trucks” was applied to GM’s other vehicle lines.
I honestly like the 2000 Pontiac Grand Am that I own in nearly every respect - except quality. It has become a known fact among consumers that unfortunately, over the past several years, quality in GM vehicles has severly declined - to the point where a new 100k mile/5 yr warranty was recently introduced in an effort to regain the consumers’ trust. Quoting a Goodyear service technician after having my car repaired *again*: “Wow, you have 125k [miles] on that car and it still runs? It’s not common that we see a GM car in that good of shape and still with that many miles.” Sad, but true - most of the people I know with non-GM vehicles having as many or more miles than me have not had near the amount of extensive repairs that I have had to have done to my Grand Am. I don’t understand why GM pretends to act like consumers don’t know what’s going on here, and accept a huge loss in market share as a result. Hopefully a better-quality vehicle accompanies the new warranty.
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