Mine's an 89 model with 34000 on the clock. I don't treat it too kindly at all. I do my own servicing & drive it pretty hard almost always.

When it's snow season I do several weekend snowboarding day trips that are 550Km's in one day.

Toyota's never die

I've done several 1000km/day trips, with 9-10hrs of straight driving. Arrive, eat, do business, turn around drive home.

I've done one trip into the mountains that was 1400km but it was 700 in and 700 out, and I stayed for a couple days... I also drive my car much harder than I should, its often above 4,000 RPM on the highway for long periods while I do 130-140km/h.

I bought it 14 months ago and I've gone from 173,000km to 217,000km so 44,000km in a year! LOTS of that is city driving too, and I drive it like its a race car.

<3 Toyota

yeah toyota engineers did well to get the power range they did out of such a small engine (it can be improved tho!) the peak power/torque range of the 4afe is around 4750rpms so I'm not suprised you drive it above 4000. When you consider redline is at 6300 ...sounds like you were driving in the sweet spot. - The car would love it.

It's worth mentioning actually most engine wear /&damage is done on start up when the engine's cold & of course dumping the clutch!

When I say I drive hard I generally mean revs & cornering ( love that awd! ) I generally like to let each gear wind right out to what I estimate to be around 5200 to 5700 ( no tacho )
There's a certain resonance/vibration that shakes the whole car when rev'd too high, I generally take her right up next to this range without actually going into it - the accelerations begins to level out at that point anyway...  but I try not to push it on start up - ya gotta let 'em warm up & breathe right - then you can flog 'em  

It's been a few years, but Oregon to Anchorage AK was my longest...about 5,000 miles round trip- I added a couple more up there.  I'd do it again in my 1992 if I had the time and a motive.

Starting in the late 60's  I have bought and sold of hundreds of used cars.  I have owned many many cars that were 'on their last leg' and made them last not by pushing them to their limts but by babying them. When I see the earlier entries about driving cars hard I am thinking that these folks dont know much about metalurgy.  Every moving and non moving part for that matter has only a limited life. The clock is ticking on them all. Friction and heat are the enemy and anything you can do to eliminate or minimize or postpone this , this prolongs the useablity of a car. It takes only one very inexpensive part to break on your All Tracs to render them scrap value. The longer you baby a car the more reliable a car you have.  I am out in the mtn west and frankly I am tiring of doing a multiple hundred part ' condition inventory' of what is the number of  the crucial parts. Even a small road trip there is always a calculated risk that I will be stranded on some lonesome stretch of road with car load of passengers and their gear- trying to and find that one dollar part [not to mention the $1k part] that had failed. I assure you that when its 10 degrees and you are crawling under a car perched on ice and a teetering jack you will remember vividly everytime you drove your car 'hard'. The car gods do not like to be scorned.  gt,  boise, id

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I throw mine up and down the Northern California coast between Arcata and SF all the time

I miss living in Northern California.  Lived there for 19 years, including school (Berkeley!).  In my west Berkeley street, there were 3 identical maroon/burgundy All-Tracs.

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Eight quarts of oil isn't burning, it's guzzling. Yikes.    

  Sounds like a leak somewhere or bad valves or piston rings.  Time for some internal engine work!

The longest trip I did was from SoCal (where I live now) to Berkeley/Oakland, and back, about 1000 miles.
I also put close to that from LA to Phoenix, spent 3 months in Phoenix suburb, and drove back.  On that trip I was averaging close to 32 mpg highway.

My longest in this thing so far has been about 3000km round trip tour of the mountains west of here. This summer it will likely get a slightly longer trip, but through the flat prairies east of here, a little easier on the engine.

Its nicer on the highway than in the city, less noise when you turn the stereo up, and of course way better views.