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Auto on Info's Top 20 High Mileage Vehicles as of July 10, 2007

Below is a listing of the top 20 high mileage holders appearing in Auto on Info galleries or rosters. The list is current as of July 10, 2007.

Table of Auto on Info's Top 20 High Mileage Vehicles
Rank Manufacturer Line Model Year Last Updated Mileage
1 Honda Honda Accord 1987 603,572 miles
2 Volvo Volvo 740DL 1989 601,000 miles
3 Toyota Toyota Celica 1983 571,000 miles
4 Toyota Toyota Celica 1978 553,264 miles
5 General Motors GMC Safari 1993 529,193 miles
6 Toyota Toyota 4Runner 1990 510,000 miles
7 Toyota Toyota Tacoma 1996 503,500 miles
8 Toyota Toyota Camry 1983 500,536 miles
9 Toyota Toyota Corolla 1984 500,222 miles
10 Honda Acura Integra 1990 500,167 miles
11 Toyota Toyota Previa 1991 467,241 miles
12 Toyota Toyota Camry 1986 462,425 miles
13 Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz 300SD 1980 453,987 miles
14 Toyota Toyota Pickup 1986 453,000 miles
15 Toyota Toyota Previa 1991 443,800 miles
16 Toyota Toyota Pickup 1986 440,209 miles
17 Volvo Volvo 940 1993 428,475 miles
18 Toyota Toyota Avalon 1998 427,841 miles
19 Toyota Toyota 4Runner 1987 425,811 miles
20 Honda Honda Accord 1988 420,746 miles

The highlighted cells denote those vehicles that were 20+ years of age at the time of last update.

Here is how the manufacturers are represented in the current high mileage listing and earlier high mileage listings:

Manufacturer Number on 2007/07/10 Number on 2006/07/10 Number on 2005/07/10 Number on 2004/07/10 Number on 2003/07/10 Number on 2002/07/10
General Motors: 1 1 1 1 0 0
Ford: 0 0 1 1 1 0
Chrysler: 0 0 0 0 0 0
Honda: 3 3 4 2 2 0
Nissan: 0 0 0 0 0 0
Subaru: 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mazda: 0 0 0 0 0 1
Mercedes-Benz: 1 1 2 5 3 1
BMW: 0 0 1 0 2 3
Volvo: 2 2 1 1 1 3
Toyota: 13 13 10 10 11 12

Advisory: Visitors have commented that with a massive replacement of parts, Big Three vehicle life spans may be extended. Also, that a Big Three high mileage vehicle may be found is not to suggest that it may be acceptable to the owner of a high mileage Toyota or Honda, now or when the Big Three product was new, as the following table suggests.

Median Value of a New Big Three Vehicle as Assessed by Mini-Survey Respondents Reporting Ownership of a Reliable Two Product on or before July 8, 2005, by Manufacturer
Manufacturer Big 3 Vehicle Valued at More Than What Is Currently Asked Big 3 Vehicle Valued at What Is Currently Asked Big 3 Vehicle Valued at Only 95% of What Is Currently Asked Big 3 Vehicle Valued at Only 80% of What Is Currently Asked Big 3 Vehicle Valued at Only 50% of What Is Currently Asked Big 3 Vehicle Valued at Nothing Big 3 Vehicle Valued at Nothing Plus Respondent Would Require $20,000+ per Year to Drive It Big 3 Vehicle Valued at Nothing Plus Respondent Would Require $200,000+ per Year to Drive It Respondent Unwilling to Own a Big Three Vehicle under Any Circumstance
Toyota Motor Corporation               √  
Honda Motor Company           √      
The Big Three manufacturers are General Motors Corporation, Ford Motor Company, and the Chrysler Group of DaimlerChrysler AG. See Glossary.
To view more results or to express your assessment of the value of a new Big Three Vehicle, go to Mini-Survey No. 31, "The True Value of a Big Three."

Here is how the manufacturers are represented in the current high mileage listing of 20+ year old vehicles and the listings for the preceding two years:

Manufacturer Number on 2006/07/10 Number on 2006/07/10 Number on 2005/07/10 Number on 2004/07/10 Number on 2003/07/10
General Motors: 0 0 0 0 0
Ford: 0 0 0 0 0
Chrysler: 0 0 0 0 0
Honda: 0 0 0 0 0
Nissan: 0 0 0 0 0
Subaru: 0 0 0 0 0
Mazda: 0 0 0 0 0
Mercedes-Benz: 1 1 2 4 2
BMW: 0 0 0 0 1
Volvo: 0 0 0 0 0
Toyota: 5 4 4 6 4

 

Additional Information Pertaining to Durability and Long-Term Ownership and Auto Manufacturer Stature

Some Charts Pertaining to Durability
(Each chart is linked to a news article providing additional information.)

More Charts and Tables appear below the list of news articles.

Some Auto News Articles:

January 2007: Toyota Expands Dominance on Durability Measure
January 2007: Big Three Dominate 2006 and Cumulative U.S. Safety Recalls
January 2007: In the U.S. in 2006, Consumers Quicken Their Pace to Quality: Toyota Sales Soar and Honda Sales Rise as Big Three Sales Plunge
December 2006: Filling the Quota at the Consumer's Expense? How CR's 1998 GM Recommendations Fared
November 2006: True Value Estimates of GM's 2007 Vehicles
November 2006: The 2006 Updates: Honda Age-Equivalent Estimates: Estimates of When a Typical 1998 Model of Honda Motor Company Will Be as Troublesome as Typical 1998 Models of General Motors Corporation and Its Several Marques Were Circa 3 Years, 4 Years, ..., and 7 Years of Age
November 2006: The 2006 Updates: Toyota Age-Equivalent Estimates: Estimates of When a Typical 1998 Model of Toyota Motor Corporation Will Be as Troublesome as Typical 1998 Models of General Motors Corporation and Its Several Marques Were Circa 3 Years, 4 Years, ..., and 7 Years of Age
October 2006: Site Manager's 1984 Corolla Passes 500,000 Mark
October 2006: The 2006 Updates: Toyota and Honda Account for 4 of 5 Most Durable Sport-Utility Vehicles; General Motors - 7 of 10 Worst: Will a Typical 1998 Toyota SUV Be More Trouble Free at 21 Years of Age Than a Typical 1998 GM SUV at 3?
October 2006: The 2006 Updates: Toyota Tops in Pickup Reliability and Durability: Just How Bad, or Disastrous, Are GM Pickups?
October 2006: The 2006 Updates: Toyota and Honda Account for 4 Most Durable Vehicle Lines; General Motors - 4 of 10 Worst: Will a Typical Toyota or Honda 1998 Model Be More Trouble Free at 20 Years of Age Than a Typical 1998 GM Model at 3?
September 2006: Reliability Updates: Best and Worst Cars and Trucks Tables: A Chart Summary
August 2006: Reliability Updates: For Vehicles 6-to-8 Years Old, Toyota Accounts for 7 of 10 Best, GM - 17 of 36 Worst
August 2006: Reliability Updates: For Vehicles 5-to-7 Years Old, Toyota Accounts for 9 of 13 Best, GM - 17 of 42 Worst
August 2006: Fitch Cuts Ford Debt Deeper into Junk, Retains Negative Outlook, Puts Estimated Post-Bankruptcy Recovery at 51-70%; Will GM-Ford Race to Bankruptcy End in Dead Heat?
August 2006: Toyota Dominates Auto on Info's Rosters of High Mileage Vehicles; Honda Places Second: Another Auto Manufacturer Durability Award for Each
August 2006: Ford Announces Recall of 1.2 Million More Incendiaries, But No New Relief for Owners of GM's Runaways, Collapsing Tailgates, and Engine Knockers
January 2006: Toyota Overwhelmingly Dominates Another Measure of Durability
August 2005: For Vehicles 6-to-8 Years Old, Toyota Garners 7 of Top 10 Reliability Percentranks, General Motors Gathers 23 of Lowest 36
August 2005: Speediest Dilapidations: General Motors Accounts for 16 of the 20 Worst
August 2005: Toyota Dominates Auto on Info's Rosters of High Mileage Vehicles; Honda Places Second: Another Auto Manufacturer Durability Award for Each
August 2005: In the U.S. in July 2005, Reliable Two and Nissan Sales Soar on Quality; Big Three Sales Soar on Discounts
July 2005: Another Ford Fire: Park That Ford on the Street! IV
July 2005: As Fires Mount, NHTSA Puts the Heat on Ford: Park That Ford on the Street! III
July 2005: Did GM's Marketing Department Make Out GM's CEO an Unmitigated Nincompoop?
July 2005: In the U.S. in June 2005, Sales by Quality Four Continue Growth and GM Shows World That It Can Move Off Dealer Lots Anything That Rolls
June 2005: Site Manager Replaces Corolla Transmission: 1984 Torque Converter Expires at 478,943 Miles
June 2005: Park That Ford on the Street! II
June 2005: In the U.S. in May 2005, Sales Shift Toward Quality Continues
May 2005: Fitch Says GM Bonds Junk Too
May 2005: Does 'GM' Mean 'Junk'?
May 2005: Toyota-Big Three Quality Gap Huge, and Growing
May 2005: Toyota and Honda Rule Most Reliable List with 12 of 12 Best, GM Dominates Least Reliable List with 8 of 11 Worst
May 2005: With U.S. Consumer Shift toward Quality Unabated, S&P Cuts GM and Ford's Debt to Junk
May 2005: In the U.S. in April 2005, Quality Four Sales Soar, GM and Ford Continue Free Fall
May 2005: Park That Ford on the Street!
April 2005: Consumer Shift Toward Quality Gives Honda Market Capitalization Greater Than GM's and Ford's Combined
April 2005: Moody's Cuts GM Long-Term Debt Rating to One Notch Above Junk, Puts Ford Debt Under Review
March 2005: Additional Measures of Toyota's Dominion in Automotive Quality: Market Capitalizations and Bond Ratings of Toyota vs. General Motors, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, and Volkswagen
March 2005: GM's Bond Rating, Bond Outlook, Common Stock, and Market Cap Take a Tumble, Reports WSJ
March 2005: General Motors and Chrysler Dominate Consumer Reports Used-Cars-To-Avoid List
March 2005: General Motors Dominates Consumer Reports Much-Worse-Than-Average Reliability List, Again
March 2005: Toyota and Honda Again Dominate Consumer Reports Good Bets List
October 2004: Is GM King of Junk?
October 2004: The 2004 Auto Reliability Updates: Toyota Continues to Govern; GM Stays Stuck ... Deep, Down and Under, and Below
Automotive News Menu Pages
Auto Manufacturers: Toyota - Honda - Subaru - Nissan - Ford - Chrysler - General Motors - Volkswagen
Topics: Reviews - Recalls - Safety Investigations - Safety Test Results - Automotive Excellence - Automotive Dishonor, Discredit, or Demerit - Lawsuits - Automotive Finances - Car and Truck Sales and Market Shares - Auto on Info

The visitor may find the following tables and charts useful as well.

Cumulative Number of Auto on Info Auto Manufacturer Awards for Motor Vehicle Quality   Cumulative Number of First Place Positions in Auto on Info's Auto Manufacturer Awards for Motor Vehicle Quality
Auto Manufacturer Awards Auto Manufacturer First Place Positions
Toyota 42 Toyota 39
Honda 34 Honda 5
Mercedes-Benz 2 Mercedes-Benz 0
Nissan 1 Nissan 0
BMW 1 BMW 0
Volvo 1 Volvo 0
General Motors 0 General Motors 0
Ford 0 Ford 0
Chrysler 0 Chrysler 0
This table is current as of 14 August 2007. This table is current as of 14 August 2007.
Shares of Consumer Reports' 2005 Quick Picks, by Auto Manufacturer and Motor Vehicle Line
Manufacturer Share of 2005 Reliability Quick Picks Share of 2005 Owner Satisfaction Quick Picks Share of 2005 Fuel Economy Quick Picks Share of 2005 Overall Quick Picks
  Vehicle Line
Toyota .63 .47 .46 .33
  Lexus .11 .16 0.00 .14
  Toyota .53 .32 .46 .19
Honda .21 .26 .38 .33
  Acura .11 .11 .08 .05
  Honda .11 .16 .31 .29
Subaru .05 .11 0.00 .14
Nissan 0.00 .05 0.00 .14
  Infiniti 0.00 0.00 0.00 .05
  Nissan 0.00 .05 0.00 .10
Mazda .05 .05 .15 .051
BMW 0.00 .05 0.00 0.00
Mitsubishi .05 0.00 0.00 0.00
Ford, Chrysler, General Motors, and all others 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
1 Mazda's one entry, the Mazda3 i, may have been pulled from Consumer Reports' Overall Quick Pick List due to a "Poor" side-impact crash test rating by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The Insurance Institute's rating did cause Consumer Reports to pull the Mazda3 from its recommended list.
All shares are rounded to two significant digits.
CR 2005 Quick Picks are quick pick models of model year 2005.
Note: A rebadge of a product engineered by Toyota, but sold by another auto manufacturer, is omitted from the latter's share.
Source for Consumer Reports' Good Bets: "Quick Picks," Consumer Reports, April 2005, P. 31

Shares of Consumer Reports' 2007 Good Bets for Model Years 1997-2006 with Selected 1998-2002 Reliability Percentrank Averages, by Auto Manufacturer and Motor Vehicle Line
Manufacturer Share of CR 2007 Good Bets with a 1998-2002 Reliability Percentrank Average1 Greater Than or Equal to .80 Share of CR 2007 Good Bets with a 1998-2002 Reliability Percentrank Average1 Greater Than or Equal to .85 Share of CR 2007 Good Bets with a 1998-2002 Reliability Percentrank Average1 Greater Than or Equal to .90 Share of CR 2007 Good Bets with a 1998-2002 Reliability Percentrank Average1 Greater Than or Equal to .95
  Vehicle Line
Toyota .54 .55 .72 .83
  Lexus .16 .19 .28 .50
  Toyota .38 .35 .44 .33
Honda .27 .32 .22 .17
  Acura .11 .13 .06 0.00
  Honda .16 .19 .17 .17
Subaru .03 0.00 0.00 0.00
Nissan .14 .10 .06 0.00
  Infiniti .08 .10 .06 0.00
  Nissan .05 0.00 0.00 0.00
Mazda .03 .03 0.00 0.00
Ford, Chrysler, General Motors, and all others 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
1 If the vehicle model is too new for a 1998-2002 Reliability Percentrank average to exist, the early 2003 Reliability Percentrank is used when such exists.
All shares are rounded to two significant digits.
CR Good Bets are models that have several model years between 1997 and 2006 of better-than-average reliability and have performed well on Consumer Reports' road tests. An auto Reliability Percentrank is a measure of relative overall reliability used by Auto on Info.
Note: Two rebadges of products engineered by Toyota, but sold by another auto manufacturer, are omitted from the latter's share.
Source for Consumer Reports' Good Bets: "CR Good Bet: The Best of Both World's," Consumer Reports Cars: Used Car Buying Guide 2006, p. 25
Source for Reliability Percentrank averages: Table I-MVRP

Median Reported Severity of Engine Knock for Various Classes of GM Vehicles as of July 12, 2005
Class 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
GM pickup trucks             √    
GM sport utility vehicles             √    
GM minivans             √    
GM passenger cars             √    
Value definitions: 0 is not auditorily offensive; 2 is auditorily offensive; 6 is very auditorily offensive; 8 is extremely auditorily offensive.
To view more results or to express your opinion regarding the engine knock in General Motors Corporation's products, go to Mini-Survey No. 65, "GM's Piston Slap - Engine Knock."

Table I: Number and Percentage of Entries in CR's 2006 Much-Worse-Than-Average List, by Manufacturer
Auto Manufacturer Number of Entries Percent of Entires
General Motors Corporation 17 50.0%
Ford Motor Company 6* 17.6%
DaimlerChrysler AG 4** 11.8%
Volkswagen AG 4 11.8%
BMW AG 2 5.9%
Kia Motors Corporation 1 2.9%
All Others 0