(01-17-2018 02:43 PM)Brookes Owl Wrote:  Sure, but it's not just stories. There may be LESS data, but it's still there. The 500 has been at or near the bottom of reliability rankings for a while now.

Ranking systems like JD Power, True Delta, Strategic Vision, and the infamous Consumer Reports, are all hotly debated in the automotive community.

Most aren’t worth the paper they are written on and all have various issues.

Besides, all of these groups subsist on the idea that there are massive differences because they need to, in order to sell subscriptions. But, the truth is like I said, they are all built with similar parts using the same processes. Is there a difference? To some extent but that extent is narrow enough that people should purchase the cars they want instead of the car they may sort of want but think it’s somehow going to have a .0025% less chance of going wrong.

Consumer Reports even quit giving the numbers because the gaps have narrowed and the worst car today is still better than the best 15 years ago.