Mafia II
67 Achievements
1,500
51-63h
One Careful Owner
Travel a total of 50 miles in one vehicle.
10
How to unlock the One Careful Owner achievement in Mafia II - Definitive Guide
The fastest way I found to do this is to firstly, pick a car of your choice, preferably a fast one (I chose the Roller GL), and then just drive up and back down the Brooklyn Bridge!
You'll have to go up and down the bridge 30 times each for 50 miles.
I done this on chapter 11 while having Henry in my car, it doesn’t matter when you do it but there are no interruptions in this chapter.
If you are close to wrecking you car by crashing a few times, there is a garage on the right side of the Bridge very close, just repair it there.
You can use speed limiter if you like to be on the safe side of your driving..but who wants to be safe in a video game eh? plus it will nearly take double the time to get your 50 miles, just make sure to brake early when approaching the end of each side of the bridge.
Also I found this really helpful video on Youtube so thats a second option if the above doesn't suffice.
Hope this helped and have fun!
So as everyone say: just pick a car in the beginning and drive each chapter with that car. You can pick this car also and drive a long end while combine it with "Cruise Control" to make a lot of distance in one time.
Thanks for the info!!
The route that I took was crossing the bridge in Uptown, taking a right in Hunter's Point and staying on that road to get on the highway in Highbrook.
Doing this, you should barely have to grind this thing at all when you run out of story.
You just have to keep driving on the highway till you achieve the achievement.
This achievement took like an hour, just keep driving till the achievement pops up. Note!: Drive to garage and check your stats immediatly after driving on the highway 5 times. Then you should be close to your goal!
In Chapter 8 towards the end you will have to drive a hot rod to Derek's Shipyard, first instead of doing that, park the hot rod somewhere (Don't worry you won't lose your hot rod as it stays marked as red on the map so you can go back and pick it up later) take any other fast car to the docks first off such as a Lassiter Series 75 Hollywood or a Beverly Kingfisher, (Look around for these, parked or driving, if you have trouble identifying them, look at the picture solution for The Exporter Achievement for a frequent spawning location for the two cars) sell one of the mentioned cars there in order to have enough to fully tune or upgrade your hot rod to Sports level performance. Once done, look on your map for the nearest bodyshop and once inside, tune the hot rod to the maximum level which is sport level and then drive it towards the main bridges at the center of the map.
If you do this then try go as fast as possible on the bridges but if you see the end of either side of the bridge, make sure to hit the handbrake otherwise you risk dying and having to restart at before you did all this, remember to keep doing laps of the bridges and as fast as possible in order for you to cut down time for this achievement. If you die or screw up any other way for example, actually blowing up the hot rod then the last checkpoint is when you're about to hijack the hot rod for the mission. I know its not too far away but its a pain in the ass to have to start from there again and your miles will reset on this car but not in statistics but that doesn't count towards the achievement, it has to be miles on this one car or any other car in the game. It has to be accumulative on one car only and not combined from different cars unfortunately.
You could risk doing the wall breach glitch as mentioned for the 1,000 miles achievement in the Jimmy Vendetta DLC guide/solutions but you won't be able to keep track of your miles as you can't store this car in your apartment's or Joe's garage as its a main part of the current mission you're on unfortunately. It still would of been nice if you could do so temporary but there's no use crying over spilled milk.
I hope this solution is good enough for you and many others!
Circle the entire map, from Brooklyn Bridge, looping round the highway across the map.
For me I had to circle the map around 8-11 times for the achievement to pop, this was also used with a car I have in my garage in chapter 10, which gives the car extra mileage from earlier chapters so it may be more times for you.
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Even though the description says you have to drive 50 miles, you actually need 51.
This isn't a difficult trophy but it is a boring one. 51 miles in the same vehicle means that particular vehicle, not one of the same type. Make sure that you store the vehicle in the garage before you start so that you'll be able to leave the car in random places and it will always be available from the garage. Don't let it get destroyed however or you'll have to start over with a new vehicle. That means you'll have to maintain the car, fuel it when necessary and keep it running until the trophy pops.
You'll be able to keep track of your progress using the "Show Legend" option in your garage. The "Distance Travelled" stat will save at checkpoints at at the end of each chapter. If you have not completed this trophy by the end of the story, bear in mind that using Chapter Select to go back will cause your "Distance Travelled" stat for that vehicle to reflect the value it had at the beginning of that chapter. You will have to complete whatever is left of the 51 miles from that point in the story.
1) disable speed limit.
2) Drive strictly in the middle
3) Press the horn signal - the cars in front will sharply press against the edges and the road ahead will be clear.
Don’t pay attention to the police, they simply won’t catch up with you if the car is sporty and improved.