- Subaru ranks the most reliable brand for the first time in the annual classifications of consumer reports
- Toyota fell due to the new movement transport engines in the new vehicles
- Rivian ranked last in reliability, although 15 other brands were not classified at all
Toyota or its luxury brand Lexus is no longer to top the classification of the most reliable brands, according to an annual report published by consumer reports on Thursday.
Subaru is now ranked the brand of the most reliable cars. This is the first time that Toyota has been dominated by Toyota, the first place, which has dominated sales plans with vehicles such as Toyota Rav4 best -selling.
The annual survey collects data from the owners in addition to the consumer reports on the internal tests of hundreds of thousands of vehicles that extend to 2000 to 2024. The survey takes 20 possible pain points by the owners in the previous 12 months, starting from transmission and electrical problems to climatic controls and electronics inside the car such as Touch screen facades, information systems and entertainmentA long period of frustration for many new car owners.
Subaru seems to have adopted what has kept Toyota and Lexus contract at the top of the reliability classifications at least during the past five years, by Graduate updates make With shared installed parts across the squad. Subaru cars that were redesigned, as in Subaru Forster 2025, follow a conservative approach, which has received Toyota’s criticism until fixing its last brand.
Starting with the Toyota Tundra truck that was redesigned for 2022, Toyota has redesigned almost every vehicle in the vast sedan group, four -wheel drive vehicles, trucks, and sports cars, whose climax with Toyota 4runner Suv, which was last renovated in 2010.
Many SUVs and trucks in the Toyota family feature more efficient and smaller turbo engines instead of Indreshed V-8s emissions That worked on the squad for a long time. New cars usually mean new problems.
Subaru grabbed almost stubbornly with 4 boxer -flat engine In compounds like Subaru Crosstrek, they lack any electrification, with the exception of the Subaru Solterra Electric Cross that was built in partnership with Toyota.
To assess the comprehensive reliability of the brand, consumer reports are factors in the problems reported for each specific model in the brand assortment. Solterra is Subaru Lone with a lower degree of average for expected reliability. The expected reliability is an average degree in the past three years of the model as long as it has not been redesigned.
Less categories than average for Tundra, a new pickup truck in Tacoma, as well as BZ4X EV associated with Solterra, Sunk Toyota of comprehensive reliability.
“While the brands classifications can guide you to the showroom, it is very important to look at the reliability of specific models before making the purchase decision,” Jake Fischer, the first manager of the Auto test center told Auto Center. “Even within high -end companies, there can be a great contrast in reliability.”
The new tundra had been suffering from problems, with 10 calls since the launch of the 2022. These problems have resulted in the Toyota decision-up to replace more than 100,000 3.5-liter V-6 engines in Tundra and Lexus LX 2022-2023. Consumer reports acknowledged that retrieval operations do not harm a brand in reliability, although continuous problems do.
Despite the recent hiccups in the new SUVs and its trucks, Toyota is still ranked third and second Lexus Bassem The most reliable among 22 brands. Fifteen brands, ranging from RAM to Porsche, not classified due to insufficient data.
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In general, Asian brands, followed by German brands, were much better in reliability than local car manufacturers. Boik, who follows the advantage of Subaru and Toyota, was the conservative and increasing in the new models. The highest arrangement arrangement (Although half of its models are made in Asia) at eleven, DAB slapped in the middle of the classification.
Mazda has fell this year to sixth place due to more problems with CX-90 Hybrid, Hyundai sliding to tenth place of continuous problems with Crossover Eoni 5 electrical problems with small Santa Cruz, according to consumer reports.
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