Ford, GM lead industry to best-ever showing in vehicle reliability -- J.D. Power study

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6. Actually, no. It gathers data for AUTOS from a variety of sources, INCL. the most important....

it BUYS cars, the CR reporters actually DRIVE them for six months, to rate them on all their aspects of driving ability, comfort, practicality, viewing area out of the windows, mechanics, etc.

As for reliability, CR is one of the few places that gathers substantial data going back for years. Power does not. Even if CR reliability data is from subscribers, I would put more faith in that than a rating from a source that makes money from selling advertising to car mgrs. Is it any wonder that Chevy is rated higher on Power than CR, when Power makes money from Chevy. That's a conflict of interest, and taints any and all results.