Subaru at Top in Quality Survey

Subaru at Top in Quality Survey

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Subaru jumped 16 places to become the most reliable automotive brand overall for 2004 models. It's the first time Subaru finished in the top spot in the 26 years Consumer Reports has conducted the survey<br />


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i'm surprised..Toyota's now at #3 in the market.

I like what subaru been doing in the recent years, which is a total opposite from toyota. Although Toyota cars are very well (maybe even over-) engineered their marketing tactics to me seems misguided. Since the mid 90's they all but ignored their motorsports history in favor of making cars based on what it seems the market wants. Take for instance the discontinueation of the Corolla GT-S, MR2 Turbo, Supra, and the introduction of SUV after SUV..

As I said before Subaru is doing the total opposite, no SUV lineups, Boxer engines derived from Porshes, Symetrical AWD standard, Turbocharged from factory, Affordable, and still appeal to a wide audience. I see as many people modding Impreza WRX as older people using them as daily drivers, as others using them as recreational vehicles with ski/bike racks. Lets not even forget their new Legacy 2.5GT. Subaru was a humdrum car manufacturer in the mid 90's (as toyota is now) but they made a unorthodox marketing move that would have make or break the company.. which was releleasing the Impreza WRX to the US market,, apparently it was the right move.

Personally I am glad even estatic to see subaru one-upping toyota. I miss the days when you see the almighty toyota emblem on sports cars like Supras and MR2's (real ones not the ones barbie would drive around in), even more when TRD actually stood for something..

yea the kings of the road the supra and the mr2...

I wish I have a subaru

What does reliability have to do with sportiness? One other thing they rate the reliability on pecentages, so a percentage of 100 cars out there. What is the ratio of Subarus to Toyotas?

Just pointing somethings out

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well if your car was sporty and reliable, wouldn't that be a little better.. i'd hate for you to hafta drag ru car in the shop everytime u decided to dump the clutch in a race... or deal with it breaking down trying to go pick your date up. kinda like rx-7's.. they are sporty... but some serious detonation problems.

and ur right, its based off the number of problems for every 100 cars or something like that. subaru sold 147,000 cars last year. thats around the number of camry's sold in the first quarter last year, and less than the number of toyota's sold last year. but it still holds true that it would be a more reliable car brand. if X brand sells only 10 cars, and those cars have absolutely no problems, then its the most reliable car in the world, just good luck buying one

its very hard to be in number 1 spot.
- you build more cars and the chances of defect is bigger lets say toyota make 1000,000 cars while subaru onli make 100,000 which one can easily do the quality control the one who build and sell more or the one who build and sell less? plus ppl kept bragging toyota is darn reliable so people expectation also higher compare those people who buy subaru

dats why when they say subaru number one. oh yeah... right.........i see more toyota dan subaru on the road dat does say someting?

not really...have you DRIVEN a subaru? have you SEEN the difference in quality between the two brands?

well going by his english he dan understand that

come on guys its pretty simple.
the bigger you are the harder to control everything from material to production then quality control. yeah subaru go up but i am still dont buy it

that's perfectly fine, to each their own.

however, since that was a Consumer Reports article as well, they're asking the same amount of people who own each vehicle...and you know something? CR actually knows what they're talking about.

thats one of the first thing i look at when buying anything