re: Best trucks for the money, measured in cost per 10k miles of lifespan

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These new tundras and tacomas with turbos won’t touch 250k

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People have an unwarrented fear of turbos. They are more complex than a non-boosted engine but the durability of engines is about design/engineering and not whether it is NA or boosted. Betting against Toyota/Lexus durability is a suckers bet which is not to say they can't engineer a "bad" engine it is simply they are statistically the least likely to do so.

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A frontier should last past 144k miles.

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It’s an average. An owner that avoids accidents, takes exceptional care of their vehicle and doesn’t live in the rust belt will do better.

A big part of keeping a truck past 150,000 miles is availability of cheap parts and body components. Accidents happen and expensive parts can total a truck and end it’s life. So the Tacoma, Silverado and F-150 are going to have a huge advantage because there are so many of them around. It’s fairly cheap to repair a fender bender or replace a major component on them if they do go out. Not the same story on a BMW or Mercedes-Benz.