First, desite the attempts of Consumer Reports to manipulate the data to make it impossible to understand and to exaggerate the reliability differences between cars, the differences are really very small. We are talking the potential of one more problem over the long-term lifespan of the vehicle. They made a new 2006 reliability reporting method that makes it impossible to understand how the summary score is derived.
If you are buying Toyota and paying a premium price based on the perceptions of reliability... you've just been suckered. You've just paid thousands more for a mediocre car that has led you to believe in a far higher degree of relative reliability than truly exists.
I truly wonder how they are getting Mazda6 hatchback scores. Their surveys do not separate the body style.
