Today at an Automotive Press Association event, Jake Fisher and Rick Paul of Consumer Reports outlined their findings in the largest US based survey of it's kind, with over 1.4 million responses covering 2,800 models over the last 10 model years with a multitude of criteria. Their findings concluded the the Honda Insight is their highest rated vehicle.
Consumer Reports uses three key criteria to recommend a vehicle; that with more then 100 responses from owners of a particular model that it has better or above average reliability, that it performs well on their own comprehensive road tests, and that it meets or exceeds all the government safety tests.
While the Honda Insight took top honors, every Hybrid on the market rated average or better in terms of reliability, with two in the top 8 overall and 5 in the top 10 family cars category. The lowest rated hybrid was the Tahoe Hybrid, which managed to exceed it's nonhybrid equivalent by an entire satisfaction rating level. The Ford Fusion was also a big winner as both a hybrid and V4 versions.
The VW Touareg was rated the worst vehicle via feedback and statistically is more then 27 times as likely to fail then the Honda Insight.
You can view their findings on their website starting today, their November issue covers the top and worst cars, with their full guide hitting newstands on November 17th.
Comments
Hybrids also usually do well in TrueDelta's Car Reliability Survey. But how large are the differences, really?
Unlike CR, TrueDelta provides actual repair frequencies, not just dots, so the (often small) size of the differences in reliability is much clearer. TrueDelta also updates four times a year, to closely track cars as they age. These results are, on average, over nine months ahead of CR's.
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