Consumer Reports: Ford’s reliability is now on par with good Japanese automakers

Posted: Oct 23, 2008
Filed under: Ford, Hybrids, Green News, Industry News, Lincoln, Scion

According to the latest survey released by Consumer Reports, Japanese and Korean automakers produce the most reliable vehicles. However, Ford is catching up very quickly although it has yet to break the top teir. Toyota’s Scion brand came in with the highest average overall reliability. The Scion xD had the best predicted reliability of any car in the survey with 80 percent fewer problems than the average car.

There were no American automakers in the top ten although Ford’s Lincoln came in at number 11 right behind Kia. The F-250 pickup and Mercury Moutaineer were said to bring down the Ford Group’s overall performance rating.

“Excluding those, Ford’s reliability is now on par with good Japanese automakers,” Consumer Reports said.

You can read about the whole Reliability Findings over at Consumer Reports.

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  • ricky_b
    And don't forget two more points...
    1) Quality isn't just a measure of how many things go wrong, it's also how you're treated and you problem handled when they do happen. My service expeinces with our Honda and Nissan were vastly superior to my service experiences with my Ford.
    2) Many people (like me) are bored with Ford's offerings. It makes me sick to see what they offer for cars to people in Europe, then to have them ram another new CUV (future Explorer) down America's throat.

    Ford commercials lately are full of blah-blah sis-boom-ba. "We're less expensive", "we're equal on JD Powers". But you don't make a single Ford/Mercury/Lincoln that really appeals to import buyers, esp if they're looking at european cars. Oh, well. They'll probably be backrupt soon enough.
  • What CR doesn't say, and that few people therefore realize:

    1. The data are already about five months old, and will be over a year old when many people use them to buy a car next summer.

    2. The average problem rate isn't very high, probably around 18 problems per 100 cars for the 2008s (based on past years; they didn't have a number when asked this year). So the differences between the different "blobs" is only three or four problems per 100 cars.

    For vehicle reliability information that is promptly updated four times a year and actual repair rates (not just blobs):

    http://www.truedelta.com

    Do you want to know how reliable a car was a year ago, when it was a year younger and had 12,000 or more fewer miles on it, or how reliable it has been recently?
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