The respected publication ConsumerReports /CR/ ranks auto brands on reliability and reveals whether their new models will keep them in the rankings.
Toyota, Lexus and BMW are the top three most trusted brands in this year’s ranking of automotive reliability brands, with the German automaker moving up 10 spots from last year to join the two trusted brands on the podium.
Mazda, the second-ranked automaker last year, drops two places to fourth, while Honda rounds out the top five.
The Confidence Score is calculated on a scale of 1 to 100 points, with the average score ranging from 41 to 60 points. For a brand to be classified, we need to have enough survey data for at least two model years, writes auto-press.net.
Every year CR asks its members about problems they have had with their vehicles in the last 12 months. This year, data was collected on more than 300,000 vehicles from model years 2000 to 2022 (with some models as early as 2023) that addressed 17 problem areas, including the engine, transmission, on-board electronics and more.
This information is used to provide confidence estimates for each major mass model. Asian automakers still lead in reliability by a wide margin, with an overall average reliability score of 59 for the region, on a scale of 0 to 100. Seven of the top 10 most trusted brands come from Asian automakers.
European automakers came in second with 51, while American brands both followed with an average score of 40. Nearly every automaker had at least one model with an average or better reliability score, and a number of automakers had for the whole range an average and higher score.
