What are the most reliable car brands?

[Greg the dogsitter]

My Civic has been working just great since I bought it nine years ago.

Therefore, I firmly conclude that everything Honda makes is stupendous, everything Japanese is awesome, and everything that's neither is ca-ca.

[kj]

Probably toyota and honda, but reliability is probably the 3rd or 4th most important thing to me when deciding what car I want. Life's too short to drive a refrigerator. kj.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Racer X wrote:
[quote=Dakota]
[quote=Racer X]
maybe if they stopped putting switches in the door panels where they get rained on, and move them to the center console like the older jaguars, the cars would be more reliable. This goes for ALL cars. Manual windows, and manual door locks last for decades, and won't go bad if they get wet......

Jaguar electrics as models of reliability? Were they Lucas brand by any chance? I have had to deal with a lot of broken manual windows over the years. Cables, cranks and pulleys break too.
I never commented on the reliability of their switches, just the common sense location of them. My mom's BMW 5 series cars had the switches on the console too.

I've got 3 35-40 year old Buicks, and all my manual door locks and manual windows still work. Heck, the power top in my '72 Skylark is all original and never been taken apart.
The '64 Thunderbird we had when I was a kid had the switches on the center console - that didn't keep them from failing to function properly most of the time.

[DharmaDog]

Check this site out. It's geared more towards looking at an individual car's reliability rather than comparing across makes due to the way it's laid out.

http://www.truedelta.com/