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Some vehicles are just gifted. Not all are made the same. All depending on if a person up keep the vehicle with routine maintenance.
When I said gifted, you can skip maintenance and she still trucking. One lady I overheard that said...I did not know I have to change my oil. She had an old model honda accord and oil bay was completely dry. She only drives 5 miles or less per day so that helps her longevity and abuse.
My aunt's 2011 camry is also another neglected vehicles. 423K miles now and still trucking. 100K is her tune up and that includes air filter too. My gosh, when her car did not idle, I cleaned out her mass air flow and throttle body and it was dark dirt in her throttle body. Her oil change has always been with synthetic at 10K. Now, I make her do it at 7K. She also has an internal oil leak but to fix it is to change the pvc value only costing $15 for parts but for the like of me, I could not get to it. That particular model of a car has issues with that parts and is the hardest to get to. Sometimes I think they make it tough so customers can bring their vehicles to the shop so they can make the money. I asked a mechanic shop how much for labor to change that $15 part the size of your pinky and he said $400 the least. I'm like forget about it. So it is a blessing in disguise if you have slow oil leak. Why? Well it will cost you for buying oil to top it off but if you think about it, she is driving new clean oil all the time. Perhaps this is the fountain of youth for car longevity? It is just a theory of mine but I dunno. Eventually everything will fall apart when due time comes. Fix a little here and a little there. Replace this parts and that parts. In california, vehicles that are still working and can drive often times get retired due to not passing smog. Yall non smog states can surely use them. Drive till the wheels fall off.
Still good with my 2nd Gen Taco. Still runs great so don't have any reason to give it up yet..
