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Welcome to Auto on Info. This site is dedicated to gathering and displaying information on passenger vehicles of all kinds. Its purpose is to provide interesting, useful, accurate auto information for consumers, students, journalists, auto analysts, researchers, public policy makers, and fine car and engineering enthusiasts.

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Automobile News, Information, Quality Data, and Analysis - Quick Jumps
True Value Estimates of 2007 Big 3 Vehicles	Auto Reliability Index Values		Auto Reliability Percentranks		Auto Reliability Grades - High Standards
Auto Durability Pages 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13	The Bottom Line	The Chart of the Great Gulf	Small Cars	Sport Utility Vehicles	Family Cars and Large Cars	Upscale Cars and Luxury Cars
Auto Manufacturer Awards	Noteworthy Models	Chart of the 10 Best and the 10 Worst	Extrapolations of the Great Gaps	Summary of the Best and Worst Tables	Auto Reliability Grades - Exacting Standards

Auto News and Editorial: Car News and Commentary
Some Popular News:	The Best and Worst 2008 Automobiles by CR's Reliability-Verdict History: Toyota Models Dominate Best and Account for All Perfect Reliability-Verdict Histories of 6 or More Years; GM Models Dominate Worst	By CR's Predicted Short-Term Reliability for 2008 Cars and Trucks, Reliable Two Models Account for 24 of 38 Most Reliable and Big Three Account for 20 of 42 Least Reliable; Hyundai Once Again Trounces GM	Does GM Mean Junk of the 7th Level of Abomination?
	GM Expands Lead on CR's Used-Cars-to-Avoid List, Sets Record Share for Recent Years	Toyota Expands Dominance on Durability Measure	Does 'GM' Mean 'Junk'?
Some Newer/Newest News:	Most recent 2008 U.S. vehicle - car and truck - sales statistics and market share data	Global Sales Statistics: Toyota Prius Sales Pass 1 Million Mark	The Best and Worst Automobiles by Engine Reliability: Toyota Dominates Best Engines and GM Dominates Worst Engines
	A Proposed Settlement on GM's Engine Coolant Debacle: Another Measure of Degrees of Junk?	Chevrolet Upholds and Expands a Tradition in Infamy: GM's Chevrolet Line Worst by CR's 2008 Used Cars to Avoid	Into the Depths: General Motors Obtains Record Share of Consumer Reports' 'Worst of the Worst'
	NHTSA Investigates GM SUV Fires: Is Ford's Incendiary Problem the Envy of GM?	By CR's 10-Year Reliability-Verdict History, Hyundai Clobbers GM Once Again: Is General Motors in Overdrive to Become the World's Worst Automobile Manufacturer?	Toyota Increases Dominance of Consumer Reports' Good Bets List a Tad, Honda Drops a Bit, Toyota's Best Widen Quality Gap Again
	Toyota's Dominance on Durability Measure Holds	The 2007 Reliability-Durability Updates: Honda Age-Equivalent Estimates: Estimates of When a Typical 1999 Model of Honda Motor Company Will Be as Troublesome as Typical 1999 Models of General Motors Corporation and Its Several Marques Were Circa 3 Years, 4 Years, ..., and 7 Years of Age	By CR's Predicted Short-Term Reliability Scores for Model Year 2008, Toyota and Honda Marques Gather 5 of 6 Best, GM Marques Gather 3 of 7 Worst, 5 of 9 Worst and 7 of 13 Worst: Is GM on a Quest to Be Junk's Absolute Monarch?
	Toyota and Honda Account for All of Consumer Reports' 2007 Long-Run Good Bet	Cleaning Arizona Air: The Exclusive Three	True Value Estimates of GM's 2007 Vehicles
Automotive Polls / Car Mini-Surveys
Popular Polls (in order of popularity):	GM's Piston Slap - Engine Knock	An Owner Satisfaction Poll for Honda, Acura, Toyota, Lexus, Subaru, Nissan, Infiniti, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Volvo Owners	The True Value of a Big Three
New Polls:	Is the Ownership of a General Motors Vehicle a Useful Index of 21st-Century Cognitive Uselessness?	General Motors Travails and Prospects	Will Cadillac Be the Next Name General Motors Dumps?
Visitor Comments and Site Manager Commentary
Most recent pages:	Visitor Comments Concerning Auto on Info	Visitor Comments Concerning Toyota Motor Corporation and Its Products	The Toyota - The Godsend
Note: The pages of this site are picture-file rich with many tables, charts, and icons. Consequently, on occasion, not all picture-files are downloaded on the first attempt. If not, simply click Go to the right of your browser's address bar for a second download. This should bring up all of the picture-files.

Car and Truck Reliability-Percentrank and Reliability-Grade Tables and Charts
To view tables of Reliability Percentranks and Reliability Grades by motor vehicle type, click the applicable type.
Small Cars	Sports Cars, Sporty Cars and Coupes	Family Cars and Large Cars	Upscale and Luxury Cars	SUVs	Minivans	Pickups	Manufacturer Averages	All Autos
To view tables of Reliability Percentranks and Reliability Grades by motor vehicle line, click the applicable line.
Acura	Audi	BMW	Buick	Cadillac	Chevrolet	Chrysler	Dodge	Eagle
Ford	GMC	Honda	Hyundai	Infiniti	Isuzu	Jaguar	Jeep	Kia
Land Rover	Lexus	Lincoln	Mazda	Mercedes-Benz	Mercury	Mini Cooper	Mitsubishi	Nissan
Oldsmobile	Plymouth	Pontiac	Porsche	Saab	Saturn	Scion	Subaru	Suzuki
Toyota	Volkswagen	Volvo
Beginning with the 2007 updates, the Reliability Grades and Reliability Percentranks of motor vehicle lines and types will appear on the same page. This should quicken comparisons.
To view charts of Reliability Percentrank averages and Percentranks and extrapolations, click the applicable line.
Acura	Audi	BMW	Buick	Cadillac	Chevrolet	Chrysler	Dodge	Eagle
Ford	GMC	Honda	Hyundai	Infiniti	Isuzu	Jaguar	Jeep	Kia1
Land Rover	Lexus	Lincoln	Mazda	Mercedes-Benz	Mercury	Mini Cooper1	Mitsubishi1	Nissan
Oldsmobile	Plymouth	Pontiac	Porsche1	Saab	Saturn	Scion1	Subaru	Suzuki1
Toyota	Volkswagen	Volvo
1Current data are insufficient to warrant charts.
To view tables of the Best and Worst motor vehicle models, click the applicable year.
Best and Worst of 1988	Best and Worst of 1989	Best and Worst of 1990	Best and Worst of 1991	Best and Worst of 1992	Best and Worst of 1993	Best and Worst of 1994	Best and Worst of 1995	Best and Worst of 1996
Best and Worst of 1997	Best and Worst of 1998	Best and Worst of 1999	Best and Worst of 2000	Best and Worst of 2001	Best and Worst of 2002	Best and Worst of 2003	Best and Worst of 2004	Summary
Chart Summary of 2006 Updates	Chart and Table Summary of 2007 Updates	Chart and Table Summary of 2008 Updates
Charts of Gaps
Charts of the Great Gaps	Extrapolations of the Great Gaps
Automobile Durability Tables and Charts
Page 1 - Original Durability Page	Page 2 - Results of 2001 Survey	Page 3 - CCC's 15 Most Frequently Stolen	Page 4 - 2001 Summary of Rosters	Page 5 - Top 20 High Mileage	Page 6 - The 2006 Study of Model Year 1998	Page 7 - The 2006 Toyota Age Equivalents for Model Year 1998	Page 8 - The 2006 Honda Age Equivalents for Model Year 1998	Page 9 - The 2007 Dilapidation Rates for Model Years 1998 - 2002
Page 10 - The 2007 Study of Model Year 1999	Page 11 - The 2007 Toyota Age Equivalents for Model Year 1999	Page 12 - The 2007 Honda Age Equivalents for Model Year 1999	Page 13 - 2007 Pickup Durability Updates for Model Years 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001	Roster of 300,000-Mile Vehicles with Statistical Summary	Mini-Survey No. 52: A Toyota Owner Satisfaction Poll with Enquiries into Toyota Durability
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Preface and Overview	This page explains how this site came to be and gives an overview of the site's contents. It, together with the Bookmarking Auto on Info page, discusses the structure of the site and any present restructuring. It also discusses the three domains that Auto on Info currently spans and the segments that each domain contains.
Highlights	This page gives some of the more interesting and valuable features of this site.
Auto Information	This page offers links to on site auto reliability and auto durability menu pages and to off site pages offering automobile information such as crash test resistance and rollover resistance. The auto reliability menu page offers links to many on site web pages giving one or more charts depicting, or tables providing, Reliability Index values, Reliability Percentranks, and Reliability Grades for individual motor vehicle models and/or averages for motor vehicle lines, manufacturers, and groups of manufacturers. It also offers a link to the 2001 Auto Review, likely the finest reliability analysis ever written. The auto durability menu page offers links to five auto durability information pages, likely the first of their kind. For new car buyers, the most important web pages may be The Bottom Line on Auto Reliability, the Extrapolations of the Great Gaps between the Big Three and (1) Toyota and (2) the Reliable Two, Summary of the Best and Worst, Page 9 of the 2001 Auto Review, Auto Durability Information Page 3, Auto Durability Information Page 4, Auto Durability Information Page 5, Auto Durability Information Page 6, Auto Durability Information Page 7, Auto Durability Information Page 8, Auto Durability Information Page 9, Auto Durability Information Page 10, Auto Durability Information Page 11, Auto Durability Information Page 12, Auto Durability Information Page 13.  Finally, to view the awards and honors that each car manufacturer has accumulated and that site manager deems of merit, go to the Auto Manufacturer Awards and Honors page.
Car News and Commentary	This page provides links to onsite car news and commentary articles. Individual menu pages are provided for the following manufacturers and topics: Toyota - Honda - Subaru - Nissan - Ford - Chrysler - General Motors - Volkswagen - Reviews - Recalls - Safety Investigations - Safety Test Results - Automotive Excellence - Green and Clean - Automotive Dishonor - Lawsuits - Automotive Finances - Car Sales and Market Shares - Auto on Info.
Auto Galleries and Rosters	This page offers links to on and off site rosters and  galleries of high mileage vehicles. The on-site Toyota galleries begin with 300,000 mile Toyotas and Lexi and  the on-site Toyota rosters begin with 200,000 mile Toyotas and Lexi. The on site Volvo, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Subaru, Honda and Acura, Nissan and Infiniti, and Other (non-Toyota, Volvo, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Subaru, Honda, Nissan) rosters begin with 200,000 mile vehicles as well.
Milestones in Automotive Quality	This page provides important developments in automotive quality and informational guideposts.
Site Layout	This page provides a table that gives the site layout. From it the contents of most of the site may be seen and accessed. Likely the most important exceptions are the Charts and Extrapolations of the Reliability Percentranks, which must be accessed from the Reliability Percentranks Menu Page.
Site Index	This page provides a conventional index for this site, but the body of the index is updated very infrequently.
Suggestions for New Car Buyers	This page takes the visitor to Auto on Info's list of suggestions for new car buyers.
Advisories	This page is devoted to advisories and cautionary remarks regarding possible shortcomings, or relative shortcomings, in auto reliability, auto durability, or other auto quality matters.
Additional Suggestions for New Car Buyers	This page takes the visitor to Auto on Info's supplemental list of  suggestions for new car buyers. These suggestions are for those new car buyers with a more distant horizon.
Consumer Complaints	This page offers links to offsite web pages at which auto complaints and defects may be researched and/or registered. It has links to U.S., Canadian, and Australian pages, although only the U.S. offers pages for researching consumer complaints. These are open to anyone with a computer; they are not restricted to U.S. residents. It also has links and directions to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's results for its crashworthiness and rollover resistance research.
The Automotive Mini-Surveys	This page provides links to current mini-surveys and the results of past mini-surveys. The hope for these surveys is to provide queries that are a bit prov2cative, thought provoking, and interesting and to give results that inform us about things automotive and about ourselves. With regard to things automotive, they are, in part, intended to get, in some small measure, a handle on the great divide between the Reliable Two and the Big Three, and the Top Four and the Big Three, and the other divides between the remaining European and Asian manufacturers and the Big Three. All visitors are invited and encouraged to participate; as well, all visitors are invited and encouraged to make suggestions for future mini-surveys.
Auto Questionnaires and the Auto Surveys and Results	This page will take you to  (1) a questionnaire for current owners of Big Three vehicles who have 1970s Big Three ownership experiences as well, (2) a questionnaire for consumers who (a) have owned a Made in Japan Toyota motor vehicle and (b) have owned a made in North America Toyota motor vehicle, (3) the Auto Survey for all auto owners, (4)  the Auto Survey for owners of a vehicle with 200,000+ miles, and (5)  the results for the 2001 Auto Survey of current owners of high mileage Toyotas listed on internet galleries and rosters.
Definitions	This page provides definitions or the web pages on which definitions of auto terms used on this site may be found. For example, it has links to the Methodology web page on which may be found the definitions of the auto Reliability Index, the auto Reliability Index Value, the auto Reliability Index Average, the auto Reliability Score, the auto Reliability Percentrank, the auto Reliability Grade - High Standards, and the auto Reliability Grade - Exacting Standards.
Mission Statement	This page gives the mission statement of Auto on Info.
Visitor Comments and Commentary	This section of the site is devoted to discussions of interesting topics raised by visitors.
Website Policy	This page provides policy statements for the site.
A Quick Fix Menu	For less staple solutions to General Motors' and Ford's pestering problems and troublesome transgressions, try Quick Fixes recommended by LeRoy t. Technician, an expert at finding unique ways for making Big Three vehicles safe and reliable. For GM's intractable runaways, see Quick Fix Prodigious.
Auto Jokes	Auto jokes from around the world.
Website Awards Received	This page displays the awards that have been bestowed upon this site.
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Date of Inception: April 29, 2001. This web site was created, and is currently managed, by James B. Bleeker.

This site was crafted using Microsoft's Office 2003, Front Page 2003, Excel 2002, Office 2000, and Home Publishing 1999, the last of which provides the auto design in the Auto on Info logo, Adobe's PhotoDeluxe Business Edition, NewSoft's Presto! PageManager for EPSON, Web Design in a Nutshell, by Jennifer Niederst, published by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., and HTML for the World Wide Web, Elizabeth Castro, published as part of the Visual Quickstart Guide series by Peachpit Press.

Acknowledgement of all of the comments, criticisms, and suggestions offered by visitors must also be made. Every page on this website has benefited from these, and as hardware and software technology permits, more of the ideas shared will be reflected in these pages as well.

Advisory: Copyright certificates have been received for many of the pages of this site and copyright applications have been sent for many more.

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