Electric vehicle maker Rivian was listed among Consumer Reports’ (CR) worst car brands for 2024. This was despite the Rivian R1T pickup truck and Rivian R1S SUV performing well in the organization’s tests. Overall, Rivian received an overall score of 55 from Consumer Reports, the fifth lowe...
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The magazine's annual reliability survey, available in the December issue and to subscribers online today, surveyed Consumer Reports subscribers about problems with cars they owned -- a total of 1.1 million vehicles. The issue includes reliability ratings of individual models in different vehicle segme...
Now, Tesla is climbing back upConsumer Reports’vehicle ratings after the electric automaker updated its software to add automatic emergency braking to its new Model S sedans and Model X sport utility vehicles. CRrestored only one of the two points it docked Tesla because the updated braking syst...
Parents handing down a vehicle produced before 2012 should make sure it includes this lifesaving technology. As 2024 TOP SAFETY PICK or TOP SAFETY PICK+ winners, the recommended new vehicles all have good ratings in the driver- and passenger-side small overlap front tests and updated side test...
Now, it’s easy to take reliability reports with a grain of salt, butConsumer Reports‘ are better than most. They’re based on historical data from hundreds of thousands of vehicle owners, and the organization has admirably transparent and strong policies around editorial independence. To many...
seem to be a non-issuewith the electric car’s owners. The “historic reliability concerns” that Tesla has according to the magazine also does not seem to bother the electric vehicle’s owners, either, especially as Consumer Reports’ reliability ratings for Tesla’s vehicles include rather ...
Subaru has stuck almost stubbornly with itsflat-4 boxer enginein vehicles such as theSubaru Crosstrek, and lacks any electrification, except for the Subaru Solterra electric crossover built in partnership with Toyota. To assess a brand's overall reliability, Consumer Reports factors in the reporte...
Almost half (46 percent) of the vehicle loans CR looked at in the data set were under water, meaning the buyer owed more on the loan than the vehicle was worth. The average such loan had a discrepancy of $3700. It's fair to use the term unscrupulous for some of the people handing...
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