Research Firm Finds Body-On-Frame Trucks Last Longest

Let's assume you want to make your last pickup truck purchase ever. What should you buy? According to the folks at iSeeCars, that's a pretty easy question to answer.

Of the 10 top vehicle choices most likely to reach 200,000 miles — a significant milestone for any vehicle — a recent study by the automotive research firm found that all but two were body-on-frame trucks. The two non-trucks were the Toyota Avalon mid-size sedan and Honda Odyssey minivan. The rest were full-size SUVs and just one pickup truck: the Toyota Tacoma.

Of the top eight pickup trucks more likely than others to last to 200,000 miles, the top two are mid-sizers, the Tacoma and Honda Ridgeline, and two of the top three are Toyotas. The rest of the list is filled out with full-size half-ton trucks, all of which have a greater likelihood of getting to 200,000 miles ahead of the average for all automotive models, which is 1.2 percent.

More than 13.5 million used cars sold in 2017 from model years 1981 through 2017 were analyzed for this study. Models not in production as of model-year 2017, heavy-duty trucks and models with fewer than 10,000 cars sold were excluded from the analysis. For each model, iSeeCars calculated the percentage of vehicles still on the road with at least 200,000 miles on the odometer.