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Consumer Reports says the 3 most reliable car brands in North America are Toyota, Subaru and Lexus
(www.consumerreports.org)
So Toyota, Subaru/Toyota and Toyota
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2025
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Honda at 4. I've always just used Honda and Toyotas. At this point I'm too familiar with junkyards selling Honda and Toyota parts to switch
American brands are hot garbage... and have been for what now? 4 decades?... maybe if they make them bigger and flimsier...
Akio Toyoda, Chairman of the board of directors at Toyota wearing a red MAGA hat and Trump-Vance T-shirt
Because unlike Elon Musk, his company has to sell actually trucks to make money. So if this means pandering to hicks, then so be it.
And by avoiding the EV craze, he was embattled at Toyota and yet saved the company billions in losses, while taking a huge market share with hybrids.
How did he save them billions? What involvement did he have with hybrids?
He kept Toyota making hybrids, since 1997, and did not invest tens of billions in EVs no one bought like most automakers did when CEOs all wanted to be like Tesla. He fought his board and investors because he did not believe the US market was ready to adopt EVs in the large numbers Toyota is based on, and he was 100% right. Toyota has pushed off on EVs until they can source solid state batteries.
Again, because Toyota stock is based on actual performance, not pure bullshit like TSLA. They don't get free government money.
The context of that picture is a NASCAR event, where you better be pro Trump, especially as an asian.
Toyota spent money on hydrogen instead and that went nowhere. And now EVs make up about 25% of all cars sold today and number continues to go up every year. Toyota isn't even in the top 20 EV brands as far as sales, If anything he's losing them money.
Continuing to sell the Prius and other successful hybrids doesn't make him a genius lol. He definitely gets credit for the LFA and ever cool enthusiasts car Toyota has made over like the last 15 years though.
So, I see Toyota, expensive Toyota, and Subaru.
I'm a bit of a Toyota fanboy, I own a 2008 Tundra I bought new that's been the best vehicle I've owned, however the new one has not been fairing well in the reliability department (the new engine has issues). I have heard from a few sources (one personal friend) that Toyota quality has dropped the last decade too. If that's the case, what does that say about the others below these three?
You can still be best even if the "whole" group's quality/reliability is going down I guess.
AFAIK, the new Tundra engines had issues, but they were corrected last year.
They've extended the recall into 2024 models so I guess we'll see how that goes!
I see last month they made an extension to cover certain models from 2024 because they currently had ~2600 warranty claims that they felt could have been potentially related, so they basically extended the recall in order to include those as well, and maybe any they missed.
The extension means that Tundras built between Late Dec 2022 - Mid Feb 2024 are included in the recall.
Regardless, Toyota did issue a recall and any customer given a new engine does not have to play for it. They are standing behind their product, and admitting there was an issue and correcting it.
2007 Tundra here. Represent 🤜🤛.
01 Tundra with 298k on it checking in.
I have two, 9 years old each. I don't remember where the dealership is. But, those cars are not festooned with screens and computerized bullshit like new ones.
Every Subaru owner I've spoken to loves their car... But then half of them report back that they regret their purchase when the engine blows out.
And a buddy of mine who runs an auto shop told me that buying a Subaru is like tossing a coin: heads you get a great car that lasts for years and hundreds of thousands of miles, tails you get a complete lemon. And there's not much in between.
This is also what many Lemmy folks told me the last time I asked about recommended cold weather all wheel drive used cars to consider. Also that quality has declined.
So oops all toyota