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True Value Estimates of 2007 Big 3 Vehicles

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 The Bottom Line The Chart of the Great Gulf Small Cars Sport Utility Vehicles Family Cars and Large Cars Upscale Cars and Luxury Cars

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 Noteworthy Models Chart of the 10 Best and the 10 Worst  Extrapolations of the Great Gaps Summary of the Best and Worst Tables Auto Reliability Grades - Exacting Standards

Auto News and Editorial: Car News and Commentary
Some Popular News: In 2006, Toyota and Honda Rule Most Reliable List with 10 of 10 Best, GM Dominates Least Reliable List with 6 of 10 Worst: Reliability Gap Grows By CR's Predicted Short-Term Reliability for Model Year 2006, Toyota and Honda Dominate Best, GM and Ford Dominate Worst Does GM Mean Junk of the 7th Level of Abomination?
General Motors and DaimlerChrysler Again Dominate CR's Used-Cars-to-Avoid List Toyota Overwhelmingly Dominates Another Measure of Durability Does 'GM' Mean 'Junk'?
Some Newer/Newest News: Most recent 2007 U.S. vehicle - car and truck - sales statistics and market share data Does GM Mean Junk and Ford Too? Toyota and Honda Shine Again. The Reliable Two Dominate Greenest Dozen; Big Three Score Zip
Toyota and Honda Dominate CR's 2007 Top Picks and Alternates; Nissan's Infiniti Division Accounts for CR's Upscale and Luxury Top Picks; Big Three Score Zip By Yet Another Quality Measure, Toyota and Honda Are Best and GM and DaimlerChrysler - Worst: The UCS 2007 Environmental Report Toyota and Honda Increase Dominance of Consumer Reports' Good Bets List: Toyota's Best Widen Quality Gap
Chevrolet Upholds a Tradition: GM's Chevrolet Line Worst by CR's 2007 Vehicles-to-Avoid List GM Maintains Leadership in Much-Worse-Than-Average: A Guide to Making Sales Challenging Toyota Expands Dominance on Durability Measure
Toyota, Honda, Subaru, and Nissan Account for Nearly All on List of 2007 Models with CR's Highest Predicted Short-Term Reliability Based on Two or More Years True Value Estimates of GM's 2007 Vehicles Site Manager's 1984 Corolla Passes 500,000 Mark

Automotive Polls / Car Mini-Surveys
Popular Polls (in order of popularity): GM's Piston Slap - Engine Knock An Owner Satisfaction Poll for Honda, Acura, Toyota, Lexus, Subaru, Nissan, Infiniti, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Volvo Owners The True Value of a Big Three
New Polls: Is the Ownership of a General Motors Vehicle a Useful Index of 21st-Century Cognitive Uselessness? General Motors Travails and Prospects Will Cadillac Be the Next Name General Motors Dumps?

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Most recent pages: Visitor Comments Concerning Auto on Info Visitor Comments Concerning Toyota Motor Corporation and Its Products The Toyota - The Godsend

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The 2007 Reliability and Durability Updates
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These pages will seek to answer such questions as: Are Toyota and Honda vehicles still the best? Are GM vehicles the worst? By far? Are typical GM, Ford, and Chrysler vehicles worth 50% of what the company asks? More? Less?
Table and Chart Summary of the 2007 Updates
August 2007: Estimating Model-Year-2008 Reliability: How High Will Toyota's Rise and How Low Will the Big Three's Tumble?
August 2007: The 2007 Reliability-Durability Updates: For Vehicles 3-to-5 Years Old, Toyota and Honda Account for 18 of 19 Best, GM - 24 of 61 Worst
July 2007: The 2007 Reliability-Durability Updates: For Vehicles 4-to-6 Years Old, Toyota and Honda Account for 17 of 17 Best, GM - 24 of 56 Worst: Will a Typical Toyota at 13 Years of Age Be as Troublesome as a Typical GM at 3 Years of Age?
July 2007: The 2007 Reliability-Durability Updates: For Vehicles 5-to-7 Years Old, Toyota and Honda Account for 12 of 13 Best, GM - 19 of 48 Worst: Will a Typical Toyota at 21 Years of Age Be as Troublesome as a Typical GM at 3 Years of Age?
July 2007: The 2007 Reliability-Durability Updates: For Vehicles 6-to-8 Years Old, Toyota and Honda Account for 13 of 13 Best, GM - 18 of 43 Worst: Will a Typical Toyota at 19 Years of Age Be as Troublesome as a Typical GM at 3 Years of Age?
July 2007: The 2007 Reliability-Durability Updates: For Vehicles 7-to-9 Years Old, Toyota and Honda Account for 11 of 12 Best, GM - 22 of 41 Worst: Will a Typical Toyota at 30 Years of Age Be as Troublesome as a Typical GM at 3 Years of Age?
May 2007: In 2007, Toyota and Honda Dominate Most Reliable List with 10 of 11 Best, GM Dominates Least Reliable List with 7 of 10 Worst
May 2007: Toyota Reliability Drops Some, But Toyota-GM Gap Remains Near Record
April 2007: The Best Models by CR's 2007 History of Reliability Verdicts: The Reliable Two Shine; Big Three Score Zip
March 2007: Toyota and Honda Increase Dominance of Consumer Reports' Good Bets List: Toyota's Best Widen Quality Gap
March 2007: Chevrolet Upholds a Tradition: GM's Chevrolet Line Worst by CR's 2007 Vehicles-to-Avoid List
March 2007: GM Expands Lead on CR's Used-Cars-to-Avoid List, a Tad
March 2007: GM Maintains Leadership in Much-Worse-Than-Average: A Guide to Making Sales Challenging
January 2007: Toyota Expands Dominance on Durability Measure
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Preface and Overview This page explains how this site came to be and gives an overview of the site's contents. It, together with the Bookmarking Auto on Info page, discusses the structure of the site and any present restructuring. It also discusses the three domains that Auto on Info currently spans and the segments that each domain contains.
Highlights This page gives some of the more interesting and valuable features of this site.
Auto Information
Table II.gif (31910 bytes) This page offers links to on site auto reliability and auto durability menu pages and to off site pages offering automobile information such as crash test resistance and rollover resistance. The auto reliability menu page offers links to many on site web pages giving one or more charts depicting, or tables providing, Reliability Index values, Reliability Percentranks, and Reliability Grades for individual motor vehicle models and/or averages for motor vehicle lines, manufacturers, and groups of manufacturers. It also offers a link to the 2001 Auto Review, likely the finest reliability analysis ever written. The auto durability menu page offers links to five auto durability information pages, likely the first of their kind. For new car buyers, the most important web pages may be The Bottom Line on Auto Reliability, the Extrapolations of the Great Gaps between the Big Three and (1) Toyota and (2) the Reliable Two, Summary of the Best and Worst, Page 9 of the 2001 Auto Review, Auto Durability Information Page 3, Auto Durability Information Page 4, Auto Durability Information Page 5, and Auto Durability Information Page 6. Finally, to view the awards and honors that each car manufacturer has accumulated and that site manager deems of merit, go to the Auto Manufacturer Awards and Honors page.
Car News and Commentary This page provides links to onsite car news and commentary articles. Individual menu pages are provided for the following manufacturers and topics: Toyota - Honda - Subaru - Nissan - Ford - Chrysler - General Motors - Volkswagen - Reviews - Recalls - Safety Investigations - Safety Test Results - Automotive Excellence - Automotive Dishonor - Lawsuits - Automotive Finances - Car Sales and Market Shares - Auto on Info. 
Auto Galleries and Rosters
84 Corolla.jpg (33855 bytes) This page offers links to on and off site rosters and  galleries of high mileage vehicles. The on-site Toyota galleries begin with 300,000 mile Toyotas and Lexi and  the on-site Toyota rosters begin with 200,000 mile Toyotas and Lexi. The on site Volvo, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Subaru, Honda and Acura, Nissan and Infiniti, and Other (non-Toyota, Volvo, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Subaru, Honda, Nissan) rosters begin with 200,000 mile vehicles as well.
Milestones in Automotive Quality This page provides important developments in automotive quality and informational guideposts.
Site Layout This page provides a table that gives the site layout. From it the contents of most of the site may be seen and accessed. Likely the most important exceptions are the Charts and Extrapolations of the Reliability Percentranks, which must be accessed from the Reliability Percentranks Menu Page.
Site Index This page provides a conventional index for this site, but the body of the index is updated very infrequently.
Suggestions for New Car Buyers This page takes the visitor to Auto on Info's list of suggestions for new car buyers.
Advisories This page is devoted to advisories and cautionary remarks regarding possible shortcomings, or relative shortcomings, in auto reliability, auto durability, or other auto quality matters.
Additional Suggestions for New Car Buyers This page takes the visitor to Auto on Info's supplemental list of  suggestions for new car buyers. These suggestions are for those new car buyers with a more distant horizon.
Consumer Complaints This page offers links to offsite web pages at which auto complaints and defects may be researched and/or registered. It has links to U.S., Canadian, and Australian pages, although only the U.S. offers pages for researching consumer complaints. These are open to anyone with a computer; they are not restricted to U.S. residents. It also has links and directions to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's results for its crashworthiness and rollover resistance research.
The Automotive Mini-Surveys This page provides links to current mini-surveys and the results of past mini-surveys. The hope for these surveys is to provide queries that are a bit prov2cative, thought provoking, and interesting and to give results that inform us about things automotive and about ourselves. With regard to things automotive, they are, in part, intended to get, in some small measure, a handle on the great divide between the Reliable Two and the Big Three, and the Top Four and the Big Three, and the other divides between the remaining European and Asian manufacturers and the Big Three. All visitors are invited and encouraged to participate; as well, all visitors are invited and encouraged to make suggestions for future mini-surveys.
Auto Questionnaires and the Auto Surveys and Results This page will take you to  (1) a questionnaire for current owners of Big Three vehicles who have 1970s Big Three ownership experiences as well, (2) a questionnaire for consumers who (a) have owned a Made in Japan Toyota motor vehicle and (b) have owned a made in North America Toyota motor vehicle, (3) the Auto Survey for all auto owners, (4)  the Auto Survey for owners of a vehicle with 200,000+ miles, and (5)  the results for the 2001 Auto Survey of current owners of high mileage Toyotas listed on internet galleries and rosters.
Definitions This page provides definitions or the web pages on which definitions of auto terms used on this site may be found. For example, it has links to the Methodology web page on which may be found the definitions of the auto Reliability Index, the auto Reliability Index Value, the auto Reliability Index Average, the auto Reliability Score, the auto Reliability Percentrank, the auto Reliability Grade - High Standards, and the auto Reliability Grade - Exacting Standards.
Mission Statement This page gives the mission statement of Auto on Info.
Visitor Comments and Commentary This section of the site is devoted to discussions of interesting topics raised by visitors.
Website Policy This page provides policy statements for the site.
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Date of Inception: April 29, 2001. This web site was created, and is currently managed, by James B. Bleeker.

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