I saw a leading segment on NOVA Science Now on PBS about the red 1966 Volvo P1800 owned by the NY former school teacher OO that he's driven 2.7+ mm miles*, & is in the Guinness Book for it. Look for it on your local PBS channel.

Yup - that's 27 times turned over on it's 5 digit odometer like our 914s have!

It was also featured in Hemmings Sports & Exotics last year IIRC.

Interesting but not an in depth car guy/gal coverage, but nice to see old cars getting some wider "cred"!

*EDIT: The abbreviation above of "mm" or "MM" is from Roman Numerals for 1000x1000 = 1,000,000 or million.
So that's 2,700,000+ miles as of the show, 2,500,000+ miles as of the HS&E article linked below.

Here's a link to the HS&E article for those interested:
http://www.hemmings.com/hsx/stories/2011/1...n_feature1.html

What's a mm mile???

2.7 Millimeter Miles?

mm = abbrev. for million used for dollars in our spreadsheets, financial analysis, etc. for 40+ years.

News journalists tend to use M instead, so use whichever works in your mind!

However, I understand your confusion coming from the land of mm's!

PS - It's actually & technically "MM" - from Roman Numerals for 1000x1000, but IMHO & that of most doing such financials & proformas use lower case so it doesn't visually overwhelm the data presentation.

Sorry to corn-fuse the readers out there!

I've used that forever and never knew why. Thanks.

Yeah, after Andy's comment I was afraid folks would think I meant "millimeter miles" for a Hot Wheels sized one!

always liked the P1800

this is from when Volvo was volvo and saab was Saab two swedish panzerwagens

It may be common to money folks but to an engineer two lowercase ms are always going to read a thousandth of a meter. The clearest abbreviation for million would be mega since m is problematic for numerous reasons mille miglia is a thousand miles even though Mille sounds to us in the states as million.

2,700,000