6.7 PSD after 2 months

FishOnOne wrote:

Willcamp4 wrote:
Not to fuel the fire , but being a long-term Ford owner and lover I found this interesting. I searched the internet for articles on the longest lasting vehicles. I was not surprised to see that the F-250 Ford Super-Duty was at the top of the list, or that 15% more of them made it to 200K miles than the second place Chevy 2500HD. No car made the top ten, (highest car was the Accord at #12) and the coveted Toyota Camry didn't make the top 20. Only three cars made the top 20 with most being pickups or SUVs. The top five were:

Ford F-250 Super Duty
Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD
Chevrolet Suburban
Toyota 4Runner
Ford Expedition

What really surprised me was that no Dodge/Ram product except the Durango made the top 20. This study was of the percentage of each model originally sold that is still on the road at 200K miles. Although the manufacturers claim that they are building new cars that are capable of lasting 250K miles, surprisingly few are still around by then.

Here's the list. :B

Link

Hate to burst your bubble, but did you read their methodology? Only looked at 30 million of their own sales listed on their website. That's a literal drop in the bucket when you consider there are about 2 cars for every American. Now it would of been interesting if they had DMV numbers or something from every state. Like when Chevy or Ford claim to have the longest lasting most dependable trucks, they both claim a certain year range of vehicles and DMV registrations in fine print on the ads typically.

So given the methodology. Could it mean that Dodge trucks are just kept by more of their owners and not put on the "Used" market so often? Or maybe Dodges tend to be sold on another website like cars.com? Or maybe Dodges just plain suck and never make it to 200k, but the engine block is sitting in someone's front yard with nothing around it? Many ways to interpret that methodology, which is why I only bring it up that it's important to read the fine print.