The issue here and CR over the years, for me, sonmeone who understands vehicles and how they work, can diag problems, etc. is that it always seems to this is more for nickle/dime stuff that folks lose their minds about vs. genuine problems meaning...no start, breaks down/strands you, etc. If it isn't that, I'm not overly concerned with having a few things that I need a dealer to check out under warranty etc. I've been driving for 37 years and have owned plenty of modern vehicles from Subaru, Ford, Honda, Toyota, Jeep, VW, Audi and can't think of any that I would have called "unreliable". Some of these would have had horrible rankings from CR and certainly from brands that sit towards the bottom of this JD power ranking. Come to think of it, the only car that actually stranded me in those 37 years was my '89 Subaru, timing belt snapped at ~70K miles and wayminut...I should have changed it prior to that so that's on me. I've had a lot of VAG vehicles and none have been particuarly problematic including vehicles that get crappy ratings like our Atlas. Is this b/c I don't get worked up about a CEL and know to open my hood and look around regularly and OMG THE COOLANT TANK IS LOW I SHOULD SCHEDULE IT IN FOR SERVICE or is it b/c I've just been lucky?
2026 JD Power U.S. Vehicle Dependability Study Results
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What's a Buick? 
Asking for an older neighborWhat's a Buick?
An aspirational status symbol.What's a Buick?
In Peking.
Oddly, the only two people I've ever known who have bought a new Buick were both over 70 and one of them bragged to me about buying the first Buick model to be made in China...
Of all the things to brag about.
The owners manuals for my old 1975 2002 and 1973 Bavaria provided instructions for changing the engine oil, transmission oil, final drive oil, and the coolant (including bleeding the cooling system) as well as adjusting the valves. There were also directions for checking the clutch plate wear and adjusting the handbrake- although the manual does recommend that an authorized BMW dealer re-pack and adjust the front wheel bearings! I suspect that over 90% of current vehicle owner/operators -driver is far too generous a term-
would pee their pants at the thought of merely checking the coolant- which is why the majority of current manuals recommend taking the car to the dealer for anything more complex than adding fuel.
Nope! Buick dealerships are drying up faster than a mud puddle in Death Valley.
Years ago known as the Doctors car.....
4wd
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Here goes everyone joking about Buick instead of who’s in the bottom …
