Comments on: Scion tops Consumer Reports reliability study http://scionnews.net/scion-news/scion-tops-consumer-reports-reliability-study/ Your source for Scion news, updates and information. Sat, 09 Jul 2011 05:38:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Michael Karesh http://scionnews.net/scion-news/scion-tops-consumer-reports-reliability-study/comment-page-1/#comment-625 Michael Karesh Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:06:52 +0000 http://scionnews.net/?p=333#comment-625 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. 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.

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