Year | Make/Model | Nada Odds per 100 Cars | Lemon Odds per 100 Cars | ||
29 vehicles, 11.5 months per vehicle, 102600 miles driven This model year has been much worse than the 2009 and 2011 for over a year. Unclear why.2010 |
Mazda Tribute | Join or sign in to view | see reported repairs | ||
29 vehicles, 11.5 months per vehicle, 102600 miles driven This model year has been much worse than the 2009 and 2011 for over a year. Unclear why. |
|||||
25 vehicles, 11.6 months per vehicle, 107100 miles driven2009 | Mazda Tribute | Join or sign in to view | see reported repairs | ||
25 vehicles, 11.6 months per vehicle, 107100 miles driven | |||||
33 vehicles, 11.5 months per vehicle, 111800 miles driven2008 | Mazda Tribute | Join or sign in to view | see reported repairs | ||
33 vehicles, 11.5 months per vehicle, 111800 miles driven |
Mazda Tribute Brand Reputation: Pros | ||
Year | Body/Powertrain | Comment |
2002 | 4dr SUV 200-horsepower 3.0L I4 4-speed automatic AWD |
Mazda has been a good brand as long as I can remember. see full Mazda Tribute review |
Mercedes-Benz GLK Brand Reputation: Pros | ||
Year | Comment | |
2013 | The smaller the Mercedes, the more heavily it tends to trade on the three-pointed star. So the #1 reason to consider a GLK250 carries over from the GLK350 review (text from the previous review in italics): I don't personally put much stock in brands, with cars or anything else. But each time I have a Mercedes-Benz for a week the continuing power of the marque has been unavoidable. Audi and BMW now command similar prices, but haven't yet acquired the same mystique. They probably never will for people born before 1980. Until the final years of the twentieth century, Audis were largely ignored as troublesome, modestly upgraded VWs and BMW was mostly known for the compact, still semi-affordable 3-Series. Neither could hold a candle to the company that invented the mass-produced automobile and that has been strongly associated with large, top-shelf automobiles ever since. Gayla (the site's programmer, my wife) is not a car person. Her take on the GLK: "Of course it's a good car, it's a Mercedes." Some of my friends who are more into cars--and who own competing makes--similarly employ a different tone when asking about "the Mercedes." They could afford one, so why don't they own one? Partly because the brand's mystique cuts both ways. They're not interested in making such a strong status statement. Can even a compact crossover make a strong status statement? Mercedes-Benz has done its best to make this so--check out the size of the three-pointed star on the GLK's grille. see full Mercedes-Benz GLK review |
Mercedes-Benz GLK Brand Reputation: Pros | ||
Year | Body/Powertrain | Comment |
2010 | 4dr SUV 268-horsepower 3.5L V6 7-speed shiftable automatic AWD |
Trickle-down reputation from the more expensive M-Bs. see full Mercedes-Benz GLK review |