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The 2006
Updates: Toyota Tops in Pickup Reliability and Durability: Just How Bad, or
Disastrous, Are GM Pickups?
Auto on Info October 2006
The 2006 Updates: Toyota Tops in Pickup Reliability and Durability: Just How Bad, or Disastrous, Are GM Pickups?
By James B. Bleeker
We first provide a chart depicting the Reliability Percentrank averages for Toyota Motor Corporation and the Big Three - General Motors Corporation, Ford Motor Company, and the Chrysler Group of DaimlerChrysler AG - from 1998 to 2002.
From the chart, Toyota's dominance in pickup reliability may be seen.
The chart also indicates that Ford's pickup Reliability Percentrank average plots are of a more cyclical character and that the current trend is downward. Moreover, as Consumer Reports' April 2006 issue accords both the 4-wheel-drive and 2-wheel-drive versions of the Ford F-150 pickup reliability ratings of worse than average and much worse than average for model years 2004 and 2005, respectively, the current downward trend may be accelerating.
In addition, note the highly erratic plots of GM's pickup Reliability Percentrank averages in more recent years. This suggests that only a small pool of Consumer Reports subscribers own GM pickups, i.e., that the consumer-savvy subscribers to Consumer Reports have concluded, in the main, that GM pickups are things to shun. See also "Does 'GM' Mean 'Junk'?" Auto on Info, May 2005.
The next chart provides an extrapolation of the Reliability Percentrank averages for Toyota, GM, and Chrysler. An extrapolation of Ford's averages is not provided as the apparent periodicity of its cyclical reliability history appears to be longer than the 16-year history of Percentrank averages.
Next, we provide a table giving two sets of Reliability Score averages for each model-year-1998 pickup series sold in the U.S. and for each pickup manufacturer. The first set of pickup Reliability Score averages is for when the 1998 pickups were between the ages of 2 and 4 years and the second set is for when the 1998 pickups were between the ages of 6 and 8 years. In addition, the table provides the change in these averages from the first age set to the second.
Note that the Reliability Score averages for Toyota's pickup series at the age range 6-to-8 years substantially exceed the averages for the several Big Three pickup series at the age range of 2-to-4 years. Also note the absence of averages for any of the various versions of GM's 1500 series at the age range of 6-to-8 years, further suggesting that Consumer Reports subscribers have concluded, in the main, that GM pickups are things to avoid, especially the 1500 series after the 6th year.
The next chart depicts the above changes in Reliability Score averages for each of the pickup manufacturers.
The next chart depicts the Reliability Score averages for each of the pickup manufacturers for when the 1998 pickups were between the ages of 6 and 8 years.
Here we see that Toyota has considerable dominance in this short-term durability measure.
One of the interesting questions is: When will a typical 1998 Toyota pickup model be as troublesome as a typical 1998 General Motors pickup model at ages 2-to-4 years. The following charts help shed light on this query.
The first chart suggests that the 1998 Toyota T100 may, at about 7 years old, be more reliable than a typical 1998 GM 1500 pickup (Chevrolet C/K 1500, GMC Sierra C/K 1500) at about 3 years old. The second chart suggests that the 1998 Toyota Tacoma may, at about 80 years old, be more reliable than a typical 1998 GM S-10/15 (Chevrolet S-10, GMC Sonoma S-15) at about 3 years old. However, in the latter instance, the extrapolation is dramatically long-term and it may as well be that at age 25 years the Toyota Tacoma may have sunk to the reliability depths of GM's S-10/15 pickups at age 3 years. For more durability information, see durability pages and for additional queries of interest, see "The 2006 Updates: Toyota and Honda Account for 4 Most Durable Vehicle Lines; General Motors - 4 of 10 Worst: Will a Typical Toyota or Honda 1998 Model Be More Trouble Free at 20 Years of Age Than a Typical 1998 GM Model at 3?" Auto on Info, October 2006.
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