These Are The Most Reliable Car Brands
For today's podcast, we sat down with Tyson Jominy, Vice President, data and analytics for J.D. Power, to discuss what the most reliable car brands are.
We also talked about why a certain OEM has been dominant for a long time, how struggling brands can improve, and how electrification affects reliability. Infotainment and advanced driver-assistance systems were also big topics.
Matthew Guy talked two-way radios with us in our "Stuff We Use" segment, as well.
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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Their methodology counts an ICE bucket that requires 10 visits for service in the first 5 years is "reliable", but the EV that needs service just once in that same five years is "unreliable".
How does this make a lick of sense?
I have a 99 Accord 5 speed with 433,000 miles. Other than normal wear the only issues I've had in almost 300k of ownership have been a faulty ignition switch, cracked solder on a circuit board, and part of the climate control was intermittently not working and the alternator finally wore out at 400k. The second and third items were replaced from junked cars made in Japan, mine is from Ohio, and have worked fine for years. Even the moon roof was shattered by a flying rock years ago, now it rattles if its fully open, so I lost half a centimeter open air delight.
Agreed, my F-150 road and drove pretty comfortably and was well equipped. I’ve ridden in friends Ram diesels and they are very plush and comfortable I wouldn’t buy a new generation Tundra due to the Twin Turbo engine. My generation Tundra was lacking in updates, interior, performance etc. But Where it wasn’t lacking was in the engine/Transmission. Toyota perfected the 5.7 V8 and made it very reliable. I’ll trade comfort for peace of mind. MY Ford experience was terrible and I used that warranty to its fullest. After my second rear seal main failure at just 30,000mi it was past the warranty repair period. I asked the service manager if that was normal and he said that things break and basically blamed the other Ford dealership for a faulty repair/install. Wrong answer. Popularity of a vehicle is not a good indicator of Quality look at Jeep products very popular but one of the worst in quality. The F-150 is now not recommended from Consumer Reports, and GM is not much better.
The 300 six is a good engine, my brother had a 94 F-150 with one, dads state forest fire truck had a 460 V8, great trucks.