Good reliability site

[65riv]

Been using a reliability site for a few years now and thought you all might find it helpful, or at least intersting. It shows relative reliability rankings of vehicle manufacturers. First pic is the Toyota-specific report. It shows which years are better than others for a specific model. For instance, if interested in a sequoia, might wanna stay away from an 03. Solara? stay away from 04, etc. The site are also reports on new vehicles, but many of these tables trail by a few years because they wait until a few years of data is available before including it on the tables. Check out the homepage if interested in the site's methodology or how it came to exist. Hey, our gut tells us Toyotas are reliable as hell. It's nice to see the numbers back that up.

Toyota - all models


Here is Toyota pickups vs the Big Three. This says it all. Note where the red falls.


Toyota Age Equivalents. Shows how old a 1998 Toyota would be before being as much trouble as a GM, Ford, etc. ex: the Toyota would have to be 22 years old before being as much a pain as a 3 year old GMC.


There was also an article last time I was there asking if Toyota was intentionally de-engineering the reliability down in recent trucks. Can't find it now, maybe i'm just tired. Anyway, hope you find the site useful.

[BamZipPow]

Looks good...thanks fer the info!

[65riv]

Found the link to that story mentioned earlier in thread. The numbers show that Toyota had been offering a 25x more reliable pickup, but has more recently been offering trucks that are more like 4x.

"Has Toyota Intentionally Degraded the Durability of Its Pickups to Only 4 Times That of GM Pickups?"

http://autooninfo.net/DurabilityInformationPage13.htm

Excerpt from above page:

Combined, the above four pairs of charts suggest the following important points:

1. For model years 1998, 1999, and 2000, it may have been more appropriate for General Motors Corporation to have paid money to its pickup consumers to take the vehicles off dealer lots than for its consumers to have paid anything for GM's pickups.

2. While GM appears to have done little-to-nothing to impart value to its pickup trucks, Toyota appears to have done a lot to give value to GM's pickups by greatly degrading the quality of its North-American-sold pickup trucks. Toyota may have concluded that if GM can sell pickups to Americans, it need only offer pickups that are 4 times (or maybe only 2 or 3 times) more durable than those of GM to expand its customer base and still ensure a customer replacement rate that is some less than that for GM pickups, but still respectable.