A 1995 Mercury Tracer with manual transmission and more than 300,000 miles on its odometer, found in a California wrecking yard.
Genuinely cheap economy cars seldom get the kind of meticulous care needed to get past the 300,000-mile mark, in part because they tend to depreciate to near-scrap values by the time they hit age 15 or so. During my junkyard travels, I've found just a handful over the years, including a 312k-mile Ford Festiva, a 360k-mile Toyota Tercel, a 445k-mile Datsun 210, a 440k-mile Nissan Sentra, a 313k-mile Dodge Ram 50 and a bunch of Honda Civics.
A Mercury with a manual transmission? Yes! The base transmission in the Escort and its Tracer twin was a five-speed manual, and the original buyer of this car went in a very un-Mercuric direction by choosing the three-pedal version. And that decision turned out to be a wise one, nearly 30 years later, because this car made it well past 300,000 miles during its life.
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