Your right Beachboy, our one work van (97' Safari) has 475K on the original trans and motor (but the oil pump was replaced at 100K) I take care of all the preventive maintence and get this, it has run regular motor oil most of its life and until only recently have I switched to synthetic because of his route getting back to the shop to late, so now when I do get it, I've had synthetic put in w/o any problems. I have the oil changed once a month in it, which is 6K. I predict this thing to hit 500K around the end of January or beginning of February, look for the pics when it does