Study: Toyota, Lexus, Honda and Acura Have the Best Odds of Hitting 250,000 MilesMotoriousElizabeth PuckettFri, September 11, 2026 at 3:00 PM UTCAdd us on GoogleStudy: Toyota, Lexus, Honda and Acura Have the Best Odds of Hitting 250,000 MilesToyota owners have long joked that their cars refuse to die, and a new study backs up the reputation with hard numbers. Research from iSeeCars, which analyzed more than 395 million vehicles, found Toyota has a 19.7% chance of reaching 250,000 miles, more than three times the 5.4% average across the industry.Lexus, Honda, and Acura round out the top four, giving Japanese automakers a clean sweep of the podium. Lexus checks in at 14.4%, Honda at 13.3%, and Acura at 9.5%, so every one of the four leaders beats the overall average by a wide margin. GMC is the highest-finishing domestic brand at 5.8%, just ahead of Mazda's 5.3%. Every other nameplate in the study falls under 5%.Non-Luxury Brands: Toyota and Honda Set the PaceStrip out the luxury nameplates and the gap only grows. Toyota's odds are 3.4 times the 5.8% non-luxury average, while Honda more than doubles it. GMC and Mazda round out the top four among mainstream brands, while Chrysler, FIAT, and MINI sit near the bottom with almost no shot at reaching the quarter-million-mile mark.Luxury Brands: Lexus and Acura Lead, Most Others Fall ShortAmong luxury brands, Lexus and Acura are in a class of their own, posting odds 4.2 and 2.8 times higher than the 3.4% luxury-segment average. Lincoln and Cadillac land in the middle of the pack, while BMW, Audi, Land Rover, Porsche, Jaguar, and Maserati all check in under 1%. iSeeCars Executive Analyst Karl Brauer noted that a low finish for a brand like Porsche is more about how the cars are driven than any "lack of quality or durability."Why This Matters for Used Car ShoppersFor anyone hunting a dependable daily driver or a high-mile project car, these rankings are a useful gut check before buying. A used car's odometer reading matters less than which badge is on the hood, and the numbers suggest a well-kept Toyota or Honda already deep into six figures may still have plenty of life left. Shoppers browsing The 10 Coolest Cars for Sale on Motorious Right Now or 10 Awesome Collectible Cars You Can Buy Right Now for Under $20,000 can use this data as one more filter when weighing a higher-mileage listing.MethodologyiSeeCars built the rankings from a proprietary model that tracked average odometer readings by vehicle age across the 395-million-vehicle dataset, then calculated the odds of each model and generation reaching 250,000 miles before weighting the results by how common that model is on the road today. Heavy-duty vans and models without enough data were excluded. It is the same kind of numbers-driven approach behind Motorious market coverage, including our recent look at falling Hagerty values on a 956-mile Dodge Demon 170. The full brand-by-brand rankings are available directly from iSeeCars.AdvertisementAdvertisement⚡️ Read the full article on MotoriousSign up for the Motorious Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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