2017 Consumer Reports reliability results New cars | Consumer reports
Many things can go wrong when building the cars especially those packed with luxury features and advanced technology, such as hybrid powertrains and advanced infotainment systems This is why it is quite impressive Lexus, Toyota's luxury brand, has achieved the highest score in our brand report card for the second consecutive year His models are generally quiet, comfortable and fuel efficient, and they're among the most reliable cars.
Following close Lexus, who scored 79, two rivals Acura, the luxury division of Honda and Audi, Volkswagen's luxury brand.
With models that are reliable, well finished, and a bit sporty, Acura has earned a score of 75 Audi came to 74, thanks to its well-designed interiors cars, petrol pleasant handling and proper use of its range of engines modern, efficient Additionally, Audi models have shown improved reliability.
Our brand bulletins are intended to show which brands are the best all-around vehicle, depending on how their models perform in our full road test and how they evaluate the reliability based on customers tell us their experiences with 1 vehicles 1 million.
overall score is calculated for each brand using a Composite Equal Weight our road test scores and reliability for each of the models we tested, for which subscribers have provided reliable data in our Annual Auto Survey To be included, needs each brand at least three models for which we test data and reliability This year, we don t have report cards for Fiat, Jaguar, Land Rover, Lincoln, Mini, Mitsubishi, Porsche, Ram, Scion, Smart and Tesla because we have too few models currently tested these brands or the absence of adequate reliability data to make a valid comparison.
Japanese brands dominated, taking seven of the top eight after the three highest scores are Subaru, Toyota, Mazda, Honda and Infiniti The only Japanese brand that wasn t in the upper half is Nissan, which ranks 18th of 23 brands in our analysis.
At the other end of the spectrum, Jeep and Ford tied for the lowest score Jeep has a mix of reliability and poorly-speckled road test, and Ford continues to have reliability problems, especially with its system MyFord Touch.
luxury cars, fun to drive and fuel efficient Audi earned him the highest overall average Test-score of 83 Mercedes-Benz followed with 81 and Chrysler, and Subaru infin iti tied at 80 Jeep lowest road -test score, dragged down by the Wrangler who scored 20 points; the date of the Compass and Patriot; and unimpressive new Cherokees.
Lexus is the only brand to achieve an excellent overall score of reliability, the following six brands win a good score only Cadillac, Dodge and Ford had a reliability score below average.
In general, luxury brands have exceeded their traditional stablemates In other words, Lexus outperformed Toyota, Acura was higher than Honda, Audi surpassed Volks wagen and Infiniti Nissan fare much better than The exception was Cadillac, which scored the lowest of all General Motors brands, based primarily on problems with the XTS CUE infotainment system.
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