Yahoo Autos Junkyard Gem: 1992 Honda Accord DX Coupe with 409,780 miles
When you're walking the rows of your local car graveyard, in which vehicles are you most likely to find odometers showing intergalactically high final odometer readings? I've got a lot of experience on the subject, and I can say that the best bets tend to be diesel-powered Mercedes-Benzes and Honda Accords of the late 1980s through early 1990s. For today's Junkyard Gem, we've got another one of those high-mile Accords, now residing in a Denver-area self-service boneyard.
409,780.7 miles over 32 years means that this unassuming base-grade Accord coupe averaged just over 12,805 for every year of its driving career.
It also means that Honda now dominates the Murilee Martin Junkyard Odometer standings, with seven cars in the Top 20 (of which five are Accords). Let's take a look:
1992 Honda Accord: 409,780 miles
Today's Accord shoves another Accord into 21st place and means that a discarded vehicle now needs at least 400,000 miles to attain Top 20 status.
This car is a respectable 18th overall, but it should feel pride as the fifth-best-traveled junkyard car I've found that was built in the United States. It is surpassed in the Murilee Martin American Pride Junkyard Odometer Standings by a 435k-mile Civic, a 435k-mile Accord, a 440k-mile Sentra and a 583k-mile Camry (the highest-mile American-built vehicle sold by a manufacturer based in the United States that I've documented was a 1986 Oldsmobile Calais with 363k miles, followed by a 355k-mile Jeep Cherokee).
It was born at Honda's factory in Marysville, Ohio, which began motorcycle production in 1979 and Accord production in 1982.
