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The Quarter-Million-Mile Club Has a Familiar Name at the Top

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A new survey set out to find which vehicles are most likely to cross the 250,000-mile threshold, the kind of milestone that separates a car from an heirloom. The results lean heavily toward one badge: Toyota, whose reputation for outlasting its own odometer shows up again and again on the list. For owners who measure a vehicle's worth in decades rather than model years, it is a quiet vindication of buying for the long haul.

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With reporting from Car and Driver.

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