3 different Toyota hybrids, two of which were the Hybrid Max.
New car, immediate 1,100 mile drive
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It's impossible to drive 1100 miles at one speed, let alone with a locked ankle. I'd take a new car on a long trip in a heartbeat.
What kind of vehicle?
I think the advice for vary speeds on break in came from the days of 1:1 transmissions where cruising speeds might put an engine at 3000 rpm with little to no load.
These days most vehicles have over-drive gears long enough to put substantial loads on engines at cruising speeds which boosts efficiency. I wouldn't be too worried about slapping a new car on the highway, just put your boot into it once in while, let it lug, nothing too crazy is needed
I think the advice for vary speeds on break in came from the days of 1:1 transmissions where cruising speeds might put an engine at 3000 rpm with little to no load.
These days most vehicles have over-drive gears long enough to put substantial loads on engines at cruising speeds which boosts efficiency. I wouldn't be too worried about slapping a new car on the highway, just put your boot into it once in while, let it lug, nothing too crazy is needed
Does your state have any weird new car laws like California? They going to charge you extra fees if you import a car from another state?
I was going to say this. Pick up the car and drive it. The trip will have enough variation to ensure a perfect break in.
My wife just got a 26 rogue 2 weeks ago with 80 miles on it. She's put 1100 on it since and didn't use the cruise and varied her speed. I'll change the oil when I get home and call it a day. She started using cruise @900 miles. I leased an 18 rogue, picked it up and ran it 80 mph on a 500 mile road trip using the cruise and no early oil change. We bought it when the lease expired and I just sold it with 126k on it and not using a drop of oil in it's 5k intervals. Take that fwiw
I purchased my mom's new car in AZ this year. The only "extra fee" was the cost of a CA smog inspection, which was $60.
If it's got some sort of manual gear control, you don't even need to vary the speed, just drop it a gear or two for few miles and then put it back into the top gear. At a 500 miles or so I would do few hard pulls on the highway from say 50 to 80mph and then once I was home I would change the oil. Done and done.
If it is a performance car, I am staying were every you bought it and stay an extra 1/2 day and put 200 miles in back roads driving before I would leave for the hwy. If a performance car then I would get off on an off ramp, then the on ramp and go through the gears 3/4 throttle lower rpm getting back on the hwy on and of every 1/2 hour and tapper down doing it as I go. I would add an oil change on your way back.
If it is a common car I would spend and hour+ before I hit the hwy doing ring load pulls on the back roads, then hit the hwy in manual mode. and do a couple exit/on ramp pull very early on and tapper off to not doing it after 600 miles.
If it is a common car I would spend and hour+ before I hit the hwy doing ring load pulls on the back roads, then hit the hwy in manual mode. and do a couple exit/on ramp pull very early on and tapper off to not doing it after 600 miles.
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You can drive around town a bit where you pick it up, then take hwy exits every so often for first 500 miles going for food, coffee, just cause etc.
I don't thinks optimal to drive 1100 miles on a new vehicle, but its no where near catastrophic either. Unless you are pressed to get home quickly, do as others suggested. Take some back roads, hit some suburban stop lights. Do more of it earlier in the trip, less nearer the end. I would imagine the first 500 miles matter more than the next 5000 miles, break in wise.
I haven’t bought it yet but it is a 2025 GTI.
GTI? If you don't want to pick it up yourself, let me know where it is and I'll deliver it for ya. It will be thoroughly broken in upon dropping it off 
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.If this was mine, I’d add some cooldown cycles also. Maybe 2 nights. Not necessary in this type of engine, ( is in other types) but it would make me feel better.
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Just drive gently and avoid constant speeds. Not hard to do.
^^^ this
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I just did 18 hrs straight on my new vehicle at just over 1200 miles on it.
Now nearing 3000 miles and this week I'll do it again. No oil used at all on a 1.5 T dual injection .
I didn't like the idle time as I95 was a traffic jam due to construction over many states just like last August.
Now nearing 3000 miles and this week I'll do it again. No oil used at all on a 1.5 T dual injection .
I didn't like the idle time as I95 was a traffic jam due to construction over many states just like last August.
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