Archive for February, 2011

We update reliability stats in February (as well as three other times a year), and it is the last day of February, so…updated stats have been posted:

Average repair trips during 2010

Nada-odds and Lemon-odds, through end of 2010

I’ve been very busy, so got these done just under the wire, and won’t have the comments up until tonight. Should have more detailed findings over the next week or two.

Find something interesting in the latest results? Let us know!

Competing cars are often priced very similarly once feature differences are accounted for. But not always. Some cars are simply better values than others.

Have you found a new car that seems very attractively priced? If so, which one? I’d like to run it through TrueDelta’s car price comparison tool to see how it measures up.

When Chevrolet announced a few months ago that its new Cruze compact sedan would start at $16,995, more than a few people (who likely had not had a chance to personally experience the new car) were shocked. The Cobalt, which the Cruze replaced, had been priced nearly $1,300 lower—and had required incentives to sell at that price. Now Ford has announced pricing for the totally redesigned 2012 Focus, and it starts at…$16,995.

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With members reporting about 2,000 new repairs every month, we need to more effectively present this information. The latest step: posting repair descriptions by problem area. Check this out here:

Car repair reports by problem area