If you’re keeping a truck for 300,000 miles, you’d better like the color.
Actually, it’d be a good idea to like the powertrain and styling, too. Spinning up that number on your truck’s odometer is the equivalent of driving to the moon and partway back, or travelling around the earth at the equator a dozen times. It’s also equal to turning wheels from New York to L.A. for a total of 107 trips. This is serious mileage, folks.
The boffins over at iSeeCars.com published a study earlier this month which lists the vehicles sold in America that are most likely to crest the tri-century mark. Unsurprisingly to the truck fans who read this site, all of them are pickups or SUVs.
A total of six models earned the distinction of being twice as likely as average to reach the 300k milestone.
- Ford Expedition
- Toyota 4Runner
- Toyota Sequoia
- Chevrolet Suburban
- Toyota Tacoma
- Toyota Tundra
Not a total surprise, then. One thing that should be mentioned about how the survey company arrived at this list. They took the total amount of a certain make and model that are on the road today and divided it by how many examples of that vehicle have travelled more than 300,000 miles.
For example, if there are a million Expeditions on the road, and 2000 of them are over 300k, its percentage of 0.2% is better than another vehicle that has two million examples on the road with 2500 of them over 300k. Overall longevity, not sheer numbers, is the winner of this particular measure.
These numbers make sense, as a couple of the machines on this list are often pressed into fleet or limo service. Their 24/7 schedule doesn’t give their engines (or odometers!) much of a chance to cool off, hence the high mileage.
Interestingly, out of fourteen metro areas surveyed by the company, one will be most likely to find a vehicle with over 200,000 miles on its odometer in the city of Indianapolis. Another fun fact: 13.2% of all Toyota Sequoia SUVs in the Atlanta area have more than 200k on the clock. The longest lasting (by mileage) vehicle in the Motor City is the Chevy Suburban, in case you’re wondering, with 7.5% of the things clicking over the 200k threshold.
The company iSeeCars.com analyzed over 13.8 million pre-owned cars sold in 2018 from model years 1981 through 2018. Models that were not in production as of the 2018 model year, heavy duty-vehicles, and low-volume models were excluded from further analysis. For each model, the percentage of the number of cars with at least 200,000 miles was calculated.