Woah! What hapened to the 4Runner? The V6 model is on the LEAST reliable list. Unusual for a Toyota.

The V8 is on the MOST reliable list, so does anyone know what's wrong with the V6?

 

Well, I don't know about their trucks today, but my stepbrother used to own a 1993 4Runner V6 five speed, 4 wheel drive and fully loaded. It was not to good. The brakes corroded at 25k in Arizona , one of the front shock braces broke, and he got rid of it at 75k. I know that list if full of Chevys on the least reliables, but I still trust Detroit to build trucks more than Japan.

 

bah. Dont tell me people actually care about PREDICTED reliability. Only idiots would use predicted reliability as a tool in selecting a car.

 

the accord and odyssey aren't listed?

 

so tell me that everytime you buy a car you don't care about its reliability!...when you are buying a car and expecting it to be reliable then you are in fact predicting it

 

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.