The vehicle most likely to reach 250,000 miles is the Toyota Sequoia, at nearly eight times the rate of the average vehicle.
Driving the news: Building on its previous study, which showed the Toyota brand had the best chance of lasting to a quarter million miles, iSeeCars broke down data from 395 million vehicles to identify individual models hitting the mark.
For context, the average vehicle has a 5.4% chance of staying on the road for 250,000 miles.
But iSeeCars finds that 27 models have more than a 10% chance of making the milestone.
Toyota dominance: The top nine longest-lasting models were all Toyota or Lexus models.
More specifically, the Toyota Sequoia led all models with a 42.3% chance of making 250,000 miles.
The Lexus LS and Toyota 4Runner were also each above 30%.
Toyota trucks, the Tundra and Tacoma, are both five times as likely as most vehicles to hit the magic number.
“Two things kill a car, time and miles,” Karl Brauer, iSeeCars executive analyst, told CDG News. “The cars that will be driven the most before they're killed by time are the cars with the widest range of functionality to be driven… A Toyota Sequoia that can be a daily driver, that can be soccer practice with the kids, that can be a tow vehicle, can be an off-road vehicle, can be a family vacation vehicle. You know, there's so many ways to use any three-row SUV.”
Hybrids perform well: Three hybrids made the top 10, led by the Lexus RX Hybrid at fourth.
The Toyota Highlander Hybrid was ninth with a 20.7% chance of lasting 250,000 miles.
Honda’s Accord Hybrid was the first non-Toyota-made vehicle on the list at 10th.
The overall average for hybrids and EVs was 8.2% of making a quarter million miles.
“Toyota, who's been doing hybrids really longer than anyone, they have created really durable hybrids, and hybrids, of course, get better fuel efficiency than non-hybrids,” Brauer said. “So once again, if you're gonna drive a car a lot, would you rather drive a car a lot that gets worse or better fuel efficiency? Give me a hybrid, great fuel efficiency, that's built by Toyota, doesn't die over time, even though it's being driven aggressively; you got a recipe for a lot of miles getting piled up before time takes that car out.”
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Also on the list: While Toyota and Lexus had 15 vehicles on the list, Honda and Acura garnered 10 spots.
The Mercedes-Benz G-Class was the first vehicle not built by Toyota or Honda on the list at 14th.
The only other brand to land a vehicle on the list was Chevrolet with the Suburban at 24th, with an 11.6% to hit 250,000 miles.
Heavy-duty numbers: Adding heavy-duty trucks, the average of trucks to make 250,000 is 11.1%.
Heavy-duty trucks occupied nine of the top 12 spots among trucks.
The Ram 3500 led the pack with a 31.9% chance of hitting the milestone.
Bottom line: Recent reports show more demand for aged inventory, and vehicles on the list show there’s value and life left in many models after 100,000 miles.
“Whether it’s a Honda CR-V or Toyota Highlander with 80,000 or 108,000 miles, a dealership can now tell a customer that this massive data analysis has confirmed how long these cars last and how many miles you can get out of them,” Brauer said. “It’s another great selling point for cars on this list if they’re on your lot as a dealer, even if they’ve got relatively high miles on them.”
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