Originally Posted by gfh77665
Fine. If you all want to thoroughly discount data derived from over 36,000 vehicle owners, simply GO AWAY and give no further attention to this thread.
Or, are you only happy if you are complaining and trying to shoot holes in something? Get a life.
Maybe if they got data from 36,000 people of one particular model for one particular year it would mean more than 36,000 out of 17,200,000
Originally Posted by macarose
The study I co-developed now has over 2.5 million vehicles from all over the United States.
No awards. No fees from the OEMs. No sponsorship of a specific study. The average visitor to our site now spends over 8 minutes studying the information which is broken down to model years along with different generations so that car shoppers can get a more complete picture of long-term reliability.
It's free to the public. Forever. We don't even have cookies or advertisers at our site. We designed it for the consumer... and the stats nerd.
Finally, can any BITOG veteran tell me why a small study on the durability of three year old vehicles would have any accuracy to it at all? Anyone? Beuller?
http://www.dashboard-light.com/
Data is all over the place on that site... it lumps 2008-2015 Grand Caravans together. I mean yeah... the 8th gen started in 2008, but 2011 saw a new engine and transmission, hugely retuned suspension, even got a pretty significant facelift, and should be in their own category. Then we look at a Toyota RAV4, there are 2 different generations mixed together.
And then there is this insanity: