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Scion tops Consumer Reports reliability study
Toyota Motor Co.’s Scion brand tops the list of most reliable cars in Consumer Reports’ annual vehicle reliability study, as Asian automakers continue to fill the top of the magazine’s rankings.
The study surveyed more than 1.4 million Consumer Reports subscribers in the spring, covering model years 1999 to 2008.
The results released Thursday show Scion vehicles as the most reliable, followed by Acura, Honda, Toyota and Lexus.
Consumer Reports was tough on domestic brands. The nonprofit says Land Rover ranked least reliable, followed by Saturn, Chrysler, Cadillac and Dodge.
Ford Motor Co. ’s brands are ranked most reliable among the U.S. automakers.
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What CR doesn’t say, and that few people therefore realize:
1. The data are already about five months old, and will be over a year old when many people use them to buy a car next summer.
2. The average problem rate isn’t very high, probably around 18 problems per 100 cars for the 2008s (based on past years; they didn’t have a number when asked this year). So the differences between the different “blobs” is only three or four problems per 100 cars.
For vehicle reliability information that is promptly updated four times a year and actual repair rates (not just blobs):
http://www.truedelta.com
Scions also have low repair rates in this survey. But we had this info well ahead of Consumer Reports.