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Auto on Info is primarily an educational website focusing on motor vehicle quality. It first appeared in April 2001 and quickly achieved Google's highest rank for search phrases auto reliability, automobile reliability, car reliability, and auto quality news. Google also ranked AutoOnInfo.net within the top 10 for the search phrase auto news in the early 2000s.

The shortcoming of the first version of Auto on Info was its size. It offered hundreds of pages, charts, and tables, far more than what is needed by a consumer to make a sound decision in selecting a motor vehicle to purchase.

The current version of Auto on Info offers significant changes in appearance, design, and size. However, its dedication to describing, summarizing and depicting important measures of automobile quality is still intact. The site offers pages on reliability and durability and pages providing composite measures of two or more of the following: Reliability, durability, customer service, customer satisfaction, and reputation.

One significant change from the first version of Auto on Info is its change in size. The site's size has been reduced so that all of its pages may be browsed in under 45 minutes. This means that hundreds of pages and charts have been culled, partly because the multiple measures of reliability repeated the same points and partly because some information was of more interest to historians than consumers. Examples of the latter are charts showing that Toyota Motor Corporation achieved eminence in reliability circa 1976 and that Honda Motor Company followed shortly circa 1980.

Another significant change is that the site expresses auto reliability ratings and auto reliability rankings, and makes available detailed auto reliability comparisons and auto reliability contrasts, using the Auto Reliability Grade Point Average, or Auto Reliability GPA. This auto reliability index is used as it is an easy to understand auto reliability measure and is well known to nearly all persons having attended high school. The page also employs Auto Reliability Grades as a reliability index, as this measure of auto reliability differences is well known to all persons having attended elementary school.

Auto reliability ratings and rankings are succinctly set forth in 5 pages - the 2010 Updated Reliability Grade Point Averages and Grades for Motor Vehicles Sold in North America, the 2010 Updated Reliability Grade Point Averages and Grades for Lines/Brands of Automobiles, the 2010 Updated Reliability Grade Point Averages and Grades for Manufacturers of Automobiles, and CR's Used Cars to Avoid summaries - historical and detailed. These pages are AJAX enabled to make for a convenient and easy-to-use reordering or selection option.

An important Auto on Info innovation is that most pages are now downloadable in PDF format, and pages that offer limited additional information are available only in PDF format. (To view these you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed, which is a free download.) This feature permits you to carry these pages in hardcopy or on your notebook when you go shopping for a new or used car, truck or SUV and makes sharing with family, friends, colleagues and coworkers a very easy task. Also, once downloaded, these PDF files will be available in perpetuity (and for posterity), regardless of whether the site is online or not. To view a list of all of the PDF files that may be downloaded, click here.

This site is largely dependent on Microsoft software technology and the browser technologies of multiple suppliers. Two problems that I have encountered while developing the revised version of Auto on Info are:

1. Occasionally, not all images are downloaded initially. To correct this shortcoming, click the refresh button on your browser.

2. Occasionally to frequently, only the static portion of the left pop out menu is initially available in Firefox and maybe other browsers. If you click several pages, or click the same page several times, on the static portion of the menu, the pop-out part of the menu should begin functioning. Once the pop-out portion functions, it should function for the duration of your visit.

3. Microsoft's Internet Explorer does distort some visual elements.

These shortcomings appear to be unique to the development server software that accompanies Microsoft's Web Expression2, but maybe not.

With the site uploaded, I have encountered difficulty viewing the site's PDF files using Internet Explorer, but I have encountered no difficulty viewing all pages with Mozilla Firefox. In addition, the download of pages has been much (much, much) faster using Mozilla Firefox and the page rendition appears to be in better conformity with that intended. This is quite interesting as Microsoft software was used to create, and is currently be used to update, this site.

Although all automobile data and statistics have been checked twice for accuracy, no doubt some errors exist. If you find such, please let me know.

I hope you enjoy your visit. If you have comments, corrections, or suggestions (such as other features or summaries of automotive quality that appeared in the original version of Auto on Info), send them to Jim Bleeker at jbleeker002@hotmail.com.

AutoOnInfo.net: The auto-quality website with the Open Directory Cool Site Award.