From Chevrolet to Toyota, these 10 longest-lasting cars are the most likely to reach 250,000 miles.
With new cars more expensive than ever and wages stagnant, Americans are keeping their cars for longer than ever before. But which vehicles are most likely to last a very long time? That’s what iSeeCars.com set out to uncover.
The study analyzed odometer readings across 402 million vehicles annually since 2013, and used the data to predict the likelihood of a given model eventually reaching 250,000 miles.
For reference, the average vehicle apparently has an 8.6-percent chance of hitting this threshold. The most reliable vehicles, however, beat this number considerably.
Does your car make the top 10? Check out the full list below.
Percentage Likely To Reach 250,000 Miles: 18.8%
Compared To Average: 2.2x
With an 18.8 percent chance of hitting 250,000 miles, the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 places 10th on this list. The immensely popular pickup truck’s durability, or perhaps lack thereof, has been thrust into the spotlight recently.
General Motors recalled almost 600,000 trucks and SUVs over 6.2-liter V-8 engines that could fail. Of those vehicles affected, the Silverado half-ton is very likely one of the most common vehicles affected, considering the nameplate is the second-most popular vehicle sold in the US. The iSeeCars.com study takes into account vehicles beyond the newest ones, though, and that’s likely why the historically sturdy Silverado 1500 still squeaks into the top 10.
Percentage Likely To Reach 250,000 Miles: 20.7%
Compared To Average: 2.4x
As for a vehicle that better represents what the rest of the list will look like, the Toyota-made Lexus GX comes in ninth, having a 20.7-percent chance of reaching 250,000 miles. That’s 2.4 times more likely than the average car.
The GX also happens to be the only luxury vehicle on this list and, ergo, unofficially the most long-lasting luxury nameplate of them all. First introduced in 2002, the latest, third-gen GX was named Motor1’s Best SUV of 2024 for being an “excellent all-rounder that can do just about anything, and go just about anywhere.”
Percentage Likely To Reach 250,000 Miles: 22.0%
Compared To Average: 2.5x
Toyota doesn’t make the Avalon anymore, possibly because most of those already sold are still on the road. With a 22-percent chance of hitting a quarter-million miles, Toyota’s defunct full-size sedan is 2.5 times more likely to reach this milestone compared to the average car. Made from 1994 to 2022, and spanning five generations, the Avalon happens to be the lone sedan on this list, making it the most enduring car you can get… in the most technically specific definition of the word.
For younger readers who may not remember, the Avalon was essentially a bigger Camry, made to rival stuff like the also-discontinued Nissan Maxima. In 2019, the final generation even got a wild TRD model with a V-6, sport suspension, and a rowdier exhaust.
Percentage Likely To Reach 250,000 Miles: 22.0%
Compared To Average: 2.5x
Fun fact: the Chevy Suburban is the longest-running automotive nameplate in the history of the automobile, having first appeared in 1935 as a Carryall Suburban. It paired a small truck chassis with the body of a station wagon, not that dissimilar to what it is today.
With a 22-percent chance of reaching 250,000 miles, it’s basically a Silverado SUV these days and a popular fleet choice among government agencies, airport car services, and upper-middle-class families who like to cosplay as government agencies. Its swankier GMC Yukon XL and shorter Tahoe siblings, by the way, aren’t far behind on observed durability, placing 11th and 12th, respectively, in iSeeCars.com’s study.
Percentage Likely To Reach 250,000 Miles: 25.8%
Compared To Average: 3.0x
As the final non-Toyota product on this list, the Honda Ridgeline has a 25.8-percent chance of going 250,000 miles, three times more likely than the average vehicle. The Japanese unibody pickup has stirred discussion among truck people over deep philosophical truck questions like “Is this even a ‘real’ truck?” since it debuted in 2005, but its demonstrated durability that places it sixth on this list arguably gives it much cred.
The name may be 20 years old now, but there have only been two generations of Ridgeline. The current one has been around since 2016 and still uses Honda’s J-series V-6—no turbos, no hybrids, and no wonder these things tend to last so long.
Percentage Likely To Reach 250,000 Miles: 25.9%
Compared To Average: 3.0x
Toyota, however, makes a strong argument for durable hybrids. Slightly edging out the Ridgeline with a 250,000-mile likelihood of 25.9 percent is the Highlander Hybrid. The fifth most durable vehicle in this study happens to be the longest-lasting that isn’t a body-on-frame SUV or pickup truck.
The Highlander first came on the scene as Toyota’s midsize crossover in 2000, but a Hybrid variant only arrived in 2005 as one of the first mainstream hybrid crossovers. The gas-only Toyota Highlander, by the way, ranked 17th on iSeeCars.com’s study, with a 15.7 percent chance of hitting 250,000 miles, 1.8 times more likely than the average.
Percentage Likely To Reach 250,000 Miles: 26.7%
Compared To Average: 3.1x
The undisputed kings of automotive longevity, however, remain Toyota’s body-on-frame trucks and SUVs, with the midsize Tacoma pickup coming in fourth. Each Taco has a 26.7-percent chance of reaching 250,000 miles, 3.1 times more than normal.
The most affordable member of the BOF Toyota family, the Tacoma is also the most popular, coming in ninth in the list of bestselling vehicles of the first half of 2025. In case a study involving hundreds of thousands of cars was not enough to prove the Tacoma’s reliability, Christian Bale apparently still drives his 2003 around the streets of Hollywood.
Percentage Likely To Reach 250,000 Miles: 26.8%
Compared To Average: 3.1x
What the Suburban is to the Silverado, the 4Runner is to the Tacoma. Toyota’s frame-based, mid-size SUV has a 26.8-percent chance of hitting a quarter of a million miles, placing it third on this list. The 4Runner nameplate, however, predates the Tacoma by about a decade, being first introduced in 1984 as an SUV version of the old Hilux pickup.
Stylishly butch without being overly big, the 4Runner has become a bit of an icon in its own right alongside its Land Cruiser and Taco siblings (and happens to be my personal favorite among all the rugged ‘Yotas). Like the Tacoma, the new 4Runner exclusively gets turbocharged four-cylinder power (with a hybrid variant optional) instead of a V-6. Long-term reliability for that one is arguably still a question mark.
Percentage Likely To Reach 250,000 Miles: 36.4%
Compared To Average: 4.2x
Missing out on the top spot by the slimmest of margins, the Toyota Sequoia takes silver, having a 36.4-percent chance of reaching 250,000 miles—a whopping 4.2 times more likely than the average vehicle.
The full-size Sequoia is the least popular Toyota truck (just 26,097 were sold last year compared to 92,156 4Runners), but those who know, know. It’s the three-row daddy of Toyota’s US lineup and a formidable alternative to the Chevy Suburban. Its mechanical longevity likely stems from the fact that it’s essentially an SUV version of this list’s winner.
Percentage Likely To Reach 250,000 Miles: 36.6%
Compared To Average: 4.2x
Taking first place on the list of vehicles most likely to hit 250,000 miles, the Toyota Tundra has a 36.6-percent chance of reaching the milestone. The Japanese full-size pickup truck first came out in 1999 and entered its third generation for 2022 with a 3.4-liter twin-turbo V-6 available with a hybrid.
Early in the lifecycle, this engine was the subject of a mass recall affecting almost 100,000 Tundras, but Toyota has since stepped up, announcing that it would simply replace engines for all vehicles involved at no charge. Building trucks worthy of a reputation for legendary reliability surely isn’t cheap, but losing said reputation may have been even more costly.
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