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Toyota Mileage Equivalents
by James Bleeker
The following two charts provide the estimated mileages at which a Toyota Motor Corporation
vehicle will operate and look like a typical Big Three vehicle at 35,000 and
50,000 miles. The estimated mileages found on each of the charts are based
on responses to an earlier online survey offered by Auto on Info.
The median of the first chart suggests that a typical Big
Three vehicle ages 7 times more rapidly than a Toyota, and the
median of the second chart suggests that a typical Big Three
vehicle ages 5 times more rapidly than a Toyota.
This Big Three aging range of 5 times to 7 times that of a
Toyota product corresponds well with the Age Equivalents based
on Reliability Score averages. From
the Age Equivalent Estimates
table, we see that the estimated Toyota age equivalents of a
3-year-old Ford Motor Company product is 15 years (suggesting
that a typical Ford product may have aged 5
times more rapidly at age 3 years than a typical Toyota
product), a 3-year-old Chrysler Group product is 17 years
(suggesting that a typical Chrysler product may have aged
almost 6 times more rapidly at age 3 years than
a typical Toyota product), and a 3-year-old General Motors
Corporation product is 17 years (suggesting that a typical
GM product may have aged more than 6
times more rapidly at age 3 years than a typical Toyota
product).
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Caution |
The person who
placed the 600,000-mile estimate that appears in the
first chart and the 750,000-mile estimate that appears in the
second chart may simply have greater experience with
higher mileage Toyota vehicles than other respondents and consequently may have
given a better estimate, although his estimates
substantially exceed the medians. |
In response to the online survey's third query regarding what model years of a Toyota would be
preferable to a new Big Three vehicle, the responses were as depicted in the
following chart.
The exact queries of the online survey that provided the
above responses were:
Query 1. If "fit
to get rid of" is defined as that condition of a typical Big
Three vehicle at 35,000 miles, then please use all of your
experience with regard to repair needs, unpleasant noises,
surges, knocks, structural integrity, body-accessory integrity,
proper component functioning, and interior esthetics to estimate
when your Toyota was or will be "fit to get rid of."
Query 2. If "fit
to get rid of" is defined as that condition of a typical Big
Three vehicle at 50,000 miles, then please use all of your
experience with regard to repair needs, unpleasant noises,
surges, knocks, structural integrity, body-accessory integrity,
proper component functioning, and interior esthetics to estimate
when your Toyota was or will be "fit to get rid of."
Query 3. Please
check all of the following that you would prefer over a new Big
Three vehicle.
For the third query, the possible responses were: a 1995
Toyota, a 1994 Toyota, ..., a 1971 Toyota.
The responses for the online survey were gathered from 2002
to 2007. This site had 67 ongoing surveys, the earliest of which
were available from 2001 to 2008. The online survey providing
the above responses was No. 52.
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Disclosure |
Site manager is currently a
very small shareholder of Ford Motor Company (2010-04-27). I am not,
and have not been, a
shareholder of any other motor vehicle manufacturer. |
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