Consumer Reports 2011 Predicted Reliability

[shortylickens]

People need to stop posting links to Consumer Reports, especially in The Garage.
We just end up arguing about CR for weeks.

 

[mmntech]

I don't know. Some of those are pretty accurate. Our rental cars at work get bashed to hell so you quickly pick up which models are the most reliable.

 

[ShawnD1]

I don't know. Some of those are pretty accurate. Our rental cars at work get bashed to hell so you quickly pick up which models are the most reliable.

I wont ask for the best since that could just cause fanboy answers, but can you tell us which ones are the worst?

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

The one I was most confused about the was the Toyota Tundra getting best in class reliability, I thought that Toyota was having all kinds of issues with those??

CR is just crap research anyways. I was taught in all my research classes if a researcher does not publish how/who/what/where the data was obtained then not to trust it further then you can spit.

On the flip side, my car was rated #1 Family Car(Fusion Hybrid) And I've had mine for over a year and a half, it was actually made during the first month of production and so far no problems besides an incident with a shopping cart. Unless a burned out tail light after 1.5 years counts as unreliable.

Which begs the question, would guys consider a burned out taillight as a sign of being unreliable? Would you consider it a repair?

I say no on both accounts, and figure it's part of routine maintenance.

i can spit pretty damn far.

 

[SparkyJJO]

The one I was most confused about the was the Toyota Tundra getting best in class reliability, I thought that Toyota was having all kinds of issues with those??

For some people, Toyota gets an automatic good score. I don't recall what magazine/article/whatever it was that admitted to doing just that on one of their ratings a while back when they got called out on it.