So do you like to drive? See if you can top this one off: I just received a press release from Volvo North America. Take a read...

LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK (September 26, 2006) – He just keeps on going. Irv Gordon, Volvo’s “Two Million Mile Man,” just became the “Four Million Kilometer Man,” breaking the four million kilometer barrier in the same shiny red 1966 Volvo P1800 he has been driving for more than 40 years.

Sixty-four-year-old retired science teacher and Long Island native Irv Gordon made history in 2002 when he reached a milestone no other individual had ever accomplished in more than 100 years of the automobile: driving two million miles in the same vehicle. He continues to break records with his latest one-car feat.

“It was a beautiful day. I was leaving Lake Placid, the leaves were starting to turn and the road had just the right amount of twists and turns for my P1800. Perfect driving conditions for reaching a new milestone,” said Gordon, describing his four-million-kilometer moment. “The only way it would have been more perfect was if I’d been cruising the Italian Alps or driving cross-country down under. It is a metric milestone, after all.”

Gordon says his next goal is the two-and-a-half million mark. Good luck Irv! For your reading pleasure four million kilometers would equal to: Almost 100 times around the world (through the equator) 7,104 swims across the English Channel. More than 114 Great Race’s (New York to Paris).