• ori@lemmy.world
    English
    4·
    7 months ago

    “based on CR member surveys” so its what people think is most reliable. Not what is actually most reliable.

    • vzq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Right? It’s not like it’s unknowable how reliable a car is? I want to see the metrics I get for all other stuff on the planet. Uptime. Unscheduled maintenance dollars per year/kilometer. I know all companies that operate fleets have these numbers!

      • FiniteLooper@lemm.ee
        English
        1·
        7 months ago

        Right, the metric at the top is “predicted reliability” - how can that even be quantified? You buy a new car, you haven’t owned it long, please tell us how reliable you think this might be in the future

    • MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io
      2·
      7 months ago

      Not all surveys are opinion surveys like political ones are. It’s just a method of data collection.

      We calculate predicted reliability ratings for almost every new car, truck, and SUV on the market using data from Consumer Reports’ annual reliability surveys, which ask members about problems they’ve had with their vehicles

      This year we calculated brand-level score by first examining the weighted overall problem rate for all models within a brand for each model year. Then the brand reliability score was calculated by averaging models from 2022 to 2024, and some early 2025 data for each brand, where there was sufficient sample size. We had insufficient data to create brand rankings for Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Infiniti, Jaguar, Land Rover, Lincoln, Lucid, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz, Mini, Mitsubishi, Polestar, Porsche, and Ram.