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Originally Posted by Xist
According to that, GMC is more reliable than Honda, Chevrolet is more reliable than Acura, but Pontiac, Buick, Cadillac, Saturn, and Isuzu are decreasingly reliable, with the last one being terrible!
Lexus and Toyota never break down while Scion is mediocre. Lincoln, Mercury, and Ford are weak, while Nissan is not much better, but Infiniti sure is! Mitsubishi is better than everyone but Lexus and Toyota, GMC and Chevrolet, Infiniti, Acura, and Honda. Hyundai is bad, but Kia is worse! Audi is bad, but Volkswagen is worse, worse than everything but Jaguar and MINI!
MINI is atrocious!
Overall, the Chrysler family is more reliable than Ford!
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It's an index. 100 doesn't mean zero failures, it means that it is the brand with the lowest failure rate, and all the other brands are compared against it.
Also, his data is compiled from dealer wholesale auctions of trade-in vehicles. While this is a good attempt at collecting unbiased data, there are undoubtedly some flaws with the methodology. For instance, cars that have failed catastrophically and dealers place no trade-in value on it, so they had to go to a junkyard instead.
That said, it appears to be more informative about long-term reliability than any other source I've found.
You can look at each manufacturer to see which models are better or worse as well. For example, Honda Passport (rebadged Isuzu) has lower than average quality, while all other models are above average. He mentioned that they are working on further dividing models by year to get a feel for which years are better than others.