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...
000 twin-turbo 3.5-liter V-6 enginesin the 2022-2023 Tundra and Lexus LX. Consumer Reports acknowledged that recalls don't harm a brand in its reliability ratings, though persistent problems
Long-Term Reliability This chart below shows a graph of problems vs. age of vehicle for 8 major automakers. The data is from their 2008 Annual Auto Survey, which had more than 1.4 million responses. A typical eight-year-old Volkswagen has almost three times the number of problems as a typ...
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 ...
Biggest ranking drop:Honda, Chrysler, Volvo, and Tesla. A partial excerpt with the top rankings are below: Despite providing these brand rankings, Consumer Reports recommends that you shop by vehicle and not just by brand. Some brands like Toyota and Lexus are reliable across the brand, but ...
"Along with reliability and performance, owner satisfaction is a key factor in the overall score we calculate for every vehicle we test," said Jake Fisher, CR director of automotive testing. In addition to ranking brands, the CR report also ranked individual vehicles. Here are some of the ...
Safety ratings for cars, published by New Car Assessment Programmes (NCAPs) around the world, have mobilized consumers and enabled them to make a more intelligent, better-informed buying decision based on a car's crash test performance. Consumer ratings involve comprehensive, objective, and ...
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 ...
Americans in the market for a used vehicle can cut their risk of having trouble down the road by considering some brands over others, with Lexus and Toyota topping a newly published list by Consumer Reports.The nonprofit research and advocacy group's first-ever ranking of 26 brands has Lexus...
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...