falling apart?!?!?!

Just write your own. That should serve you quite well, and you'll be
very satisfied with how bright you think the author is.

There's no need to be sorry about bashing the Consumer Reports
reliability rankings; you join a large company of people who choose to
do so because the rankings don't agree with what they already 'believe'.
Relax.

In the meantime, those of us who value consumer input rather than
manufacturer's claims will continue to use this and other measures for
evaluation.

Of course, I have no way of knowing for sure that other people who rate
their purchases for reliability do so fairly and honestly, anymore than
you or the other cretins have any way of knowing that they do not. We
do know that there's nothing to gain by not doing so, and the
reliability of the Hondas and Toyotas which have topped the reliability
rankings for years and years isn't disputed by anyone with two brain
cells to rub together - or by anyone with data to back up the disputation.

By the way, Consumer Reports covers at least six years of history. For
my Hondas, that's about 120,000 miles.

Each.

A shitload more than enough to tell you if the transmission falls out at
6000 miles.


RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen

 

That's the main reason they have never helped me; I typically buy at eight
to ten years and hold on to around 20 years. I would much rather know how
they do after ten and fifteen years. Even buying at five years would only
give the first year's data as a used car.

Mike