Thats not what I mean. When someone buys a honda they are predicting that it will be reliable, same thing for toyota and for the most part nissan also. However, for a major publication such as USA Today to say we dont think this car will be reliable or this car will be reliable is ludicrous. newspapers and car mags are expected to test cars for their reliability. they should give facts...not a hypothesis based on past performance. Anyone can do that. I can tell my friends to stay away from the TL 6speed based on how the last 6speed was in the cl. But that wouldn't be fair to honda as they most likely have fixed the problems since then. In essence that is what USA Today is doing.

I personally would never buy an american car until at least a year after its out and there are no negative coments on its reliability. But people that don't know that much about cars would say, "whoa, I better stay away from the xc90 because its not reliable." when in fact there are no facts backing it up.