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Cars and trucks people keep the longest.

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Bill(Wis)

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Following are statistics put together by iseecars.com. Only 6.1% of drivers in the USA keep their vehicles more than 15 years. There are some notable exceptions. Here they are:
10. Toyota Sequoia-9.1%
9. Toyota 4 Runner-9.4%
8. Subaru Forester-9.8%
7. Honda Pilot-10.4%
6. Honda CRV-10.7%
5. Toyota Tundra-11.3%
4. Toyota Sienna-11.5%
3. Toyota Tacoma-11.5%
2. Toyota Highlander-12.4%
1. Toyota Prius-13.7%
 
I'm not surprised Toyota was on that list.
We got rid of an 05 Camry this spring.
283K miles on it and it still ran like a watch. I used it as a parts getter for the last 3 years and beat the interior and trunk up a little. Still got a good price for it and it sold overnight.
 
SV,

I gave up on what others think when the Chevy Vega was car of the year.
I had a 1967 Barracuda I tried to keep on the road forever. Rebuilt engine, junk yard standard tranny, junk yard rear ends.
I had over 300K on it when the uni body completely rusted out. Rust was the only thing holding my wheels in place.
The rust eating iron worms turned the Cuda into a true unsafe death machine.
 
There's a big difference in north and south, for how long cars last. I'm in NY and rust gets pretty bad here on vehicles driven in the winter.
 
I'm in the NY snowbelt. EVERY vehicle I've every owned has gone to the scrap yard suffering from advanced body rot. But every one had still had a perfectly running engine/transmission when retired.

My current ride is a '99 F250 diesel. It runs like new but the body is about shot. Gonna try to nurse it through on more western NY winter before I replace it.
 
Agree....I drive them for 10 to 15 years and 150,000 miles or more....and the 81 I
bought new is still driving, same as the 96 I bought new and the 2009 I bought
new....couple of those are over 300,000 now....

Ben
 
Wife's 1997 Toyota Corolla she bought new has about 270,000 miles I'd drive it anywhere.My 1999 Ford F550 diesel has about 180,000 miles on it still runs,rides and drives like the day I drove it off the lot,only new vehicle I ever bought.No plans to sell either one.
 
I think some people try hard enough they can break an Anvil.
I'm the first and last person to own a vehicle. Sometimes I pass a vehicle down to a relative only because I want a new vehicle to take on long trips and feel safe it will make it back.
I could care less if my vehicles are on some list.
 
23 years ago I bought a jeep that was 23 years old when I bought it and have no plans to get rid of it. If it works don't buy a four wheel computer.

I can understand the statistics though. They build cars and trucks today nobody can work on so you have to get rid of it and get a new one.
 
51 GMC 3/4 ton Pu never in salt, 57 Jeep CJ3B with 49 IH K model cab grafted on when new, 67 Austen Healy Sprite W/Toyota drive train, 83 Honda CM450E, 2001 Subaru Outback, 2014 Subaru outback. Jim
 
Daddy still has the 1966 Chevy pickup he bought new. He is 80 now, so I think it will be his ONLY truck.

The oldest vehicle on the place is a 1953 1 ton truck I bought from my cousin. I just couldn't see it cut up and 'rat rodded'.

I still have the '85 Monte Carlo Super Sport I bought in '95. My last girlfriend wanted to know when I was going to trade it in on something 'new'. My response was I couldn't think of any car I would want more than that one. I still have the car. . ..

the '78 Monte Carlo I bought in 1986 is still here too. I sold it to my Mother.
 
Still have a '65 GMC 4000 wheat truck we bought used in 1968. Had been a diesel engine freight truck prior to our purchasing it. Had over 300,000 miles on it. Dealer converted it to a farm truck and put a new 15' grain bed and hoist on it and also changed it to a V-6 GMC gas engine. Rebuilt the engine about 40 years ago. Still starts and runs good but get very little use. Shedded at a son's place.
 
Add a Geo Prism to the list - it is our backup vehicle and is a 1993 model.... DOES have a Toyota drive-train.
 
Thats because they dont do anything . Whoopee it hauls 4 people or a sack of groceries? Lets see it go 300,000 miles actually doing work . The blue one had 400,00 the red one 385,000 the yellow one is at 310,000 . Have a white one thats at 340,000 and the Odometer has stopped working
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(quoted from post at 15:26:30 07/25/21) And let's not forget about the '52 Merc. (;>))
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Bill, I actually just inherited the Merc after my dad had retired it many years ago. I know it would not pass some of the rigid safety inspections they have in some provinces/states but its great mechanically. I have no plans to sell it.
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I would say they are on the money with their assessment. Toyota and Honda in general are not haunted with the issues other makes have.
 
Still have Dad's 54 Chevy 1 1/2 ton flat bed he bought new, and is still the family. I retired it last year, since I don't do do disking anymore. It had a hard life. It hauled a lot of oat hay, and hauled the tractor, and disk many miles, by myself, and Dad. Stan
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I still have my 89 Chevy half ton. I quit using it when I upgraded to a 95 3/4 ton.
 
In 1993 I bought the '78 Chevy 4x4 pickup that I'm in the process of refurbishing from one of my neighbors for $400. I put a snowplow on it, and I have no idea of how many times over the years I've gotten my $400 worth out of it. .
 
I bought my 01 Silverado new. It has 380,000 miles on it and still does what its supposed to. The dually is a 1992 F350 purchased a few years ago. Mileage unknown. No plans to sell either one.
 


I was a solid Ford guy until the 6.0 fell apart 3 months out of warrantee. In 2014 it was time for a new car and we got a new Toyota Highlander. We are in NH and it sees a lot of salt so few months ago I crawled under with WD-40 and Fluid Film to go on rust prevention patrol as I always have with my Fords. There was no place for it to rust!!!!! Joints are all sealed with rubber lip seals.
 
Our trucks include 65 Chevy 1/2 ton purchased by my father in 1965. 95 Dodge 1 ton 4x4 purchased in 1995. 96 Chevy 3/4 ton 4x4 purchased in 2004. 1996 Ford 350 purchased in 2008. 03 Ford 350 dually purchased in 2019.

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That list looks a little sketchy to me, has the Prius even been around 15 years?And if so most of them are in California.
 
(quoted from post at 17:07:39 07/25/21) There's a big difference in north and south, for how long cars last. I'm in NY and rust gets pretty bad here on vehicles driven in the winter.
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Amen brother! In NY the stupid "Bare Roads Policy" costs residents tens of millions a year, but it saves the insurance industry tens of millions a year. Guess who has the bigger lobby? Always follow the $$$$$.
 
Reminds me of when I landed down on the south end of the NY Thruway near Suffern early one morning to pick up a patient from an
accident due to a spin-out on ice. A sudden unforecast ice storm had gone thru during the night. I landed just in front of the
accident on the highway. The NYSP were there and I told a trooper that I had landed off to the right side so that any emergency
vehicles could get past. He told me that they weren't letting anybody drive on that highway until some salt trucks showed up. 'This
highway is closed.' Made me laugh because on our local roads in Wisconsin we drive on snow-packed roads all winter. Snow-pack gets
so thick that it develops potholes whenever thawing occurs.
 
The guys who haul stuff for a living should know something about trucks I would think. I see them out on the turnpikes pulling long trailers loaded with RVs out of Elkhart, Indiana. They're all cab and a half dual-wheeled Dodges or Fords. Not a GM, Toyota, Nissan or anything else to be seen. All diesels.
 
Looks good to me. I remember those cars very well from the day they came out in 1952. That was the new body style that continued
thru 1954. '54s had the new 161 hp OHV engine. Great cars!
 
Nice looking car. Very similar looking to my 65 Chevy 6 Biscayne model. which has been long gone. Stan
 
The first Prius is pushing 20 years old. I think 2002 was the first year. We have two Sienna vans. Yes, Rice Grinders! Old Greenie is 13 years old and has 222,000 miles of maintenance free miles power train wise. I just had the front rotors replaced along with the second set of front pads. It has had a tick resembling a lifter tick for the past 170,000 miles. I haven't done anything about it and it might be slightly louder now. One thing we forget to talk about is the interior of these vehicles. Everything In the interior of this Sienna is original and works like a clock. The seats are good, No fan motors have conked out (yet) every switch, the cruise, everything works like it did new. The floor mat and carpet have worn through where our heel is under the foot feed. A new mat is on order. We plan to use it as our main local driving van till the wheels fall off. Local miles is the majority of our miles. There is no body rust, none and I don't see rust on any other old Sienna in this area. If it gets to looking too crappy we will drive the new one to church but it will stay till death do us part.

Then there is the 09 Colorado. I bought it with 13,000 grandpa driven miles on the clock. It has 100,000 miles. A front wheel bearing stranded me at 60,000 miles, something went goofy in the fuel injection and stranded me at 30,000 miles and the box sides are rusting through. It has the five cylinder engine that so far has held up fine mechanically. If I was to take a drive to Florida right now I would trust the old Sienna more than that Colorado.
And there is the 98 1/2 Dodge 3500 long frame Dually. By the time it hit 220,000 miles everything in the drive train and everything in the undercarriage had been replaced except for the Cummins. $ransmission several times, $ear diff once along with axle bearings, it's two wheel drive, $njection pump twice, $CM, $ower steering pump and $ear box. I call it $oney Pit for a good reason. I could buy a cheap new car for the money I have in that thing to keep it on the road. But it has status, long frame dually Cummins but that does not pay the bills. Everyone wants to drive it or buy it from me but I can't let it go now.
 
Strange thing about the cab and a half when you haul into some of those states you cant have a bed on your truck you have to have the fenders over the wheels
 
Sv with all the large equipment you haul why not step up to a mid size semi then you could get millions of miles out of them
 

I wonder how the numbers were juggled to avoid sports cars . There are lots of vintage vehicles that appear on the roads after the spring rains wash the salt off the roads . Then they placed into storage sometime in October or November .
 
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I wonder how the numbers were juggled to avoid sports cars . There are lots of vintage vehicles that appear on the roads after the spring rains wash the salt off the roads . Then they placed into storage sometime in October or November .
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B&D, my '67 Datsun roadster must be skewing the data really badly. Most of them rusted out within five years.
 

I cannot figure out why anyone with half a brain would buy any GM or Ford product. The only reason American made Toyotas are on the list is that the Japanese tell the Americans what to do and how to do it. Americans cannot build squat on their own anymore.
 
I drive on almost nothing but salted highways on my long trips through New York, Pennsylvania, northern Ohio, northern Indiana,
Chicago and Wisconsin with an occasional trip to Minnesota. No body or frame rust on any Toyota I've owned which would be Tacomas &
Tundras. The ones with steel wheels will show some rust on the wheels. Just had the 2013 Tacoma inspected for rust on a recall.
Toyota has experienced frame rust on the Tacoma. They buy those frames from Dana. This has been happening for a good many years.
You would think by now they would have figured out how to prevent that. Anyhow, my truck frame was rust free and they steam cleaned
it and then applied rust proofing and guaranteed it for 15 years. A friend who lives in New York had his inspected and due to rust
on the frame they replaced the frame, rust proofed it and guaranteed it for 15 years.
 
These guys all pull with a fifth-wheel hookup. I believe they do have fenders but no bed. I'll try to get some pictures. Some of those trucks look like they have a million miles on them. They haul RV trailers on their long trailers and deliver them all around the country from the RV factories around Elkhart, Indiana.
 
I have a 2010 Ford Escape with 330k miles on it. My son has a Toyota pickup and just had the head
gaskets replaced at 150k miles. I suppose I have half the brain and all the luck. Oh, I only paid half as
much too. Stupid me. What was I thinking?
 
1968 Barracuda Formula S, Hi Po 383 4 spd, posi, Dark metallic green ext, dark green interior. Fastback, Bucket seats, RWL. Manual windows, No room for PS, PB AC. All original. 90k miles. Bought new Dec 23 1967. Interesting sidelight. Had the bumpers re chromed. They are interchangeable front and rear
 
My 2002 Tahoe is still a striking vehicle 19 year later in metalic pewter and a tan leather interior. The only thing that doesn't work on it is the spyware known as
OnStar. My note in the owner's manual indicated I disabled it by pulling the fuse in 2006.
 
The 1960 Lincoln Continental had doors that were interchangeable. Front door would interchange with rear door on the opposite side.
Robert Strange McNamara was the supreme bean counter back then.
 
(quoted from post at 17:25:15 07/26/21) I drive on almost nothing but salted highways on my long trips through New York, Pennsylvania, northern Ohio, northern Indiana,
Chicago and Wisconsin with an occasional trip to Minnesota. No body or frame rust on any Toyota I've owned which would be Tacomas &
Tundras. The ones with steel wheels will show some rust on the wheels. Just had the 2013 Tacoma inspected for rust on a recall.
Toyota has experienced frame rust on the Tacoma. They buy those frames from Dana. This has been happening for a good many years.
You would think by now they would have figured out how to prevent that. Anyhow, my truck frame was rust free and they steam cleaned
it and then applied rust proofing and guaranteed it for 15 years. A friend who lives in New York had his inspected and due to rust
on the frame they replaced the frame, rust proofed it and guaranteed it for 15 years.
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I put over 300K on 2 Toy pickups, what would be the Tacoma now. Both died of NYS rust.

They do know how to prevent rust on frames, but no one seems interested in paying for a heavy galvanized frame on an already extremely expensive vehicle.
 

Good that she protected yourself and passengers .
I recall seeing wrecks as a kid with dead, crippled and ejected people. Now after a similar crash . The driver and passengers open the doors , walk out and call on the phone that they are
Going to need a ride home .
 
. Drove the Grand National from 1987 to 2004 . 496,000Km . Oiled it every year . Body and frame is still sound .
Need to find the time and money to restore it . I put a battery in it every now and again and take her for a drive around the yard and lane way .
 
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