Tagged Reliability Articles

The Plane Has Crashed Into The Mountain: Are Cars That Much Better Than They Used To Be?

Agent00R submitted on 1/29/2010 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 9:51:34 PM

In the world of automobiles this week there is only one three letter word that can sum up what exactly went down. It was bad.Watching the snowballing Toyota mess continue to worsen and then Honda comes out with nearly 650,000 vehicle recall for the F...

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A Range Rover With Reliability Problems? You're KIDDING? ;)

Agent001 submitted on 6/3/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 1:27:00 PM

It is not the best advertisement to have outside your car dealership.This Range Rover Sport HSE is convincingly decorated like a ‘manager’s special offer’, but it promotes a set of features that are far from appealing.The owner has ...

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Tell Us What You Think Is The Most UN-Reliable Vehicle In History

Agent001 submitted on 2/24/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 1:20:35 PM

In this world of flawless Lexus quality and so many new cars hitting the roads that are light years ahead in reliability compared to their past brethren, it's getting really hard to find an UN-reliable vehicle.Almost everything being made today ...

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In seven of eight classes German cars are the most reliable according to the German Automobile Association breakdown statistics

MidEngine submitted on 9/10/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 8:12:18 AM

Google Translation of an Autozeitung.de article The cars from German manufacturers particularly are. That found out the General German Automobile Association during the evaluation of 1.95 million breakdowns, with which the “yellow angels” of the...

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German cars take top spot in 7 of 8 classes in reliablity statistics

TheSailor submitted on 6/19/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 8:15:06 AM

Due to the fact that I'm moving and that i'm off to Singapore on monday, I haven't had the time to post on here for the last week or so, but yesterday I stumbled over this very interesting report from the German version of the AAA, ADAC and I thought...

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The UK's 20 Most Reliable Cars

Rupert submitted on 5/10/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:56:33 AM

20. MINI One/Cooper 19. Subaru Forester 18. Vauxhall Corsa 17. Ford Focus 16. Hyundai Getz 15. Skoda Octavia 14. Audi A4 13. BMW 3 Series (Last Generation E46) 12. Subaru Impreza 11. Honda CR-V 10. Toyota Avensis 9. BMW 5 Series (Current M...

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Luxury brands take beating in auto-reliability survey

XeroK00L submitted on 3/1/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 2:02:49 PM

David Champion, the magazine's director of automotive testing, blamed one model for Lexus' fall, the midsize GS that was redesigned last year. He said the car had problems in three areas — body integrity, defined as rattles or poorly fitting panels; ...

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Mercedes vs. Consumer Reports

XeroK00L submitted on 11/20/2006 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 1:44:29 PM

Mercedes vs. Consumer Reports The luxury carmaker is not happy with recent rankings that appeared in the 2007 New Car Preview. By Alex Taylor III, Fortune senior editor November 20 2006: 9:11 AM EST NEW YORK (Fortune) -- There is an old sayin...

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MUST READ: A Foggy Future: Where Can Lexus Go from Here?

S4cabriofox submitted on 11/10/2006 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:44:45 PM

It might be time to start calling the J.D. Power Initial Quality Study "The Lexus Report." For the fifth straight year, Lexus was the top-ranked nameplate. The study found that Lexus buyers reported 81 problems per 100 vehicles during the first 90 da...

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