Consumer Reports Ranks Dodge Most Reliable American Brand

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Consumer Reports has proven, in my mind, that they cannot review products correctly.

We recently purchased a new vehicle and had looked at a Dodge. Told friends of ours that we had driven a particular model. Friends wife said "oh, are they making them good now?" This just speaks volumes as to the rep that Dodge has. Maybe their quality is up, but they're going to have to make good stuff for 20 years to convince me.
 

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What's not to like about CR? They buy items from a random retail outlet and test them in normal usage. Not hand picked perfectly detailed unicorn models supplied to testers by a manufacturer along with a free trip to Spain to test them. (Those usually get pretty good reviews). You can apply to be a tester. Regular people, not slaves to advertising dollars. We may not always agree with outcomes but at least it has a chance of objective honesty in the review.

Amazon is rife with fraudulent reviews. Tons of specialty companies out there that will use a bank of computers to give glowing reports (or terrible ones about the customer's competitors) for a fee. Some articles about this practice say to ignore all 1 and 5 reviews and read only 2 through 4 reviews for a better result. It's kind of like the Ebay seller who buys a few thousand penny items and gets the 100% rating so he can sell an expensive non-existent item to some dupe.

Pretty obvious I'm a boomer CR fanboy, eh?
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Don't necessarily agree with Dodge being the most reliable but I will say Ford and GM have done nothing to prove that as absolutely not true.

Build quality is shit on pretty much all American brands
 

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Don't necessarily agree with Dodge being the most reliable but I will say Ford and GM have done nothing to prove that as absolutely not true.

Build quality is shit on pretty much all American brands

Ford has definitely shit the bed as of late...the fiasco with RS motors, 3rd Gen coyotes, problematic DCTs in Focus/fiesta, 350 motors etc...fit'n'finish in general seems a bit off as well.
 

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What's not to like about CR? They buy items from a random retail outlet and test them in normal usage. Not hand picked perfectly detailed unicorn models supplied to testers by a manufacturer along with a free trip to Spain to test them. (Those usually get pretty good reviews). You can apply to be a tester. Regular people, not slaves to advertising dollars. We may not always agree with outcomes but at least it has a chance of objective honesty in the review.

Amazon is rife with fraudulent reviews. Tons of specialty companies out there that will use a bank of computers to give glowing reports (or terrible ones about the customer's competitors) for a fee. Some articles about this practice say to ignore all 1 and 5 reviews and read only 2 through 4 reviews for a better result. It's kind of like the Ebay seller who buys a few thousand penny items and gets the 100% rating so he can sell an expensive non-existent item to some dupe.

Pretty obvious I'm a boomer CR fanboy, eh?
Stay off the internet junior.
 

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2015 F150 2018 Silverado both business partners work trucks.
My wife's 2016 Lincoln and now 2019 Cadillac.

Every single one has had more problems than my 2018 Ram. Which I bought because I owned a 2005 F150.

The ONLY error with my Ram is that it changes the clock for daylight savings time the wrong way every time.

I've been a Ford guy for life. After my F150 and their lack of concern for my consumerism , I realized I was being loyal to a company that wasn't loyal to me. At my cost only.
 

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I have it on good authority that consumer reports recomendations can be bought. It was reported that a top rating on an appliance was about 900K.
That was several years ago. Would be a low number today.

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Consumer Reports is garbage. I lost all faith in them back in the 90's when they reviewed VCR's. They ranked a Samsung below an RCA, but the surprise was, the guts were identical. Samsung made the VCR for RCA. For that reason, they lost all credibility in my eyes.

MY first VCR was an RCA for Xmas in 1989 and my first VHS tape was Batman.
 

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I'd believe it. My dad's 09 Dodge truck is about to roll over 300k and it's been a rock. My 2012 Cadillac not so much
 

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They all have their problems. That said I’ve been plenty happy with my 19 Ram, 26k miles problem free in less then a year so far. I look forward to many more miles to go and I’m still shocked at times because for years I swore I’d never buy a dodge/ram/Jeep.

that said I’d gladly own a F150 again next or another tundra but both were a bit behind the curve when I was shopping.
 

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They all have their problems. That said I’ve been plenty happy with my 19 Ram, 26k miles problem free in less then a year so far. I look forward to many more miles to go and I’m still shocked at times because for years I swore I’d never buy a dodge/ram/Jeep.

that said I’d gladly own a F150 again next or another tundra but both were a bit behind the curve when I was shopping.
I'm in the same boat as you. 2019 ram is my first non ford truck in 20 years. 16k miles on mine so far and it's been great. I'm not too big on Fords new looks, and I was really annoyed that to get an xlt 4x4 with a v8 it was over $50k.
 

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