Milestones reached with the August results of the Vehicle Reliability Survey

The results of the Vehicle Reliability Survey will be updated next week. Actually, members have been able to view provisional results for about a month now, but next week they’ll be 99 percent finalized (a few very late responses or corrections might still trickle in) and be publicly released.

A number of milestones have been reached with this release:

Total number of full results: 152 (compared to 119 in May)

Total number of results: 300 (compared to 242 in May)

Earliest we’ve ever had a full result for the new model year, with the 2009 Nissan Murano. A big thanks to partner forums NissanMurano.org and NICOClub.com.

There will also be a partial result for the 2009 Jaguar XF, which is quite an achievement since this is not a high volume car.

Other 2009s are likely with the next update, in November: Dodge Journey, Subaru Forester, Toyota Corolla, and (maybe) Honda Pilot.

First model with over 200 responses: the 2008 Buick Enclave, GMC Acadia, and Saturn Outlook. Thanks are due to EnclaveForum.net, AcadiaForum.net, and SaturnFans.com.

Also the first model with over 1,200 months (100 vehicle-years) of data–the same trio.

The 2007 Nissan Versa passed the 1,000-month mark. Another thank you to NICOClub. A couple of other models are close to it.

First model with seven years of full results: the 2002 through 2008 Honda Accord. Partial results also provided for 1997 through 2001, for a total of twelve years. Credit here goes to DriveAccord.net.