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[Evan]

Of the bottom 32 cars in CR, 30 of them are American. Hence, American cars are unreliable in general. Pointing out a few exceptions doesn't prove anything, because they're exceptions to the general trend of craptititude, if that's a word.

It has been proven in several studies, that people complain more about vehicle failures on american cars than japanese cars, due to the (now incorrect) stigma of american cars being unreliable.
When the exact same failure happens in an american car and a japanese car, owners who fill out reliability reports (in these studies) have complained more about the failure on the american car, and rated the overall reliability of the american vehicle to be much lower than the japanese vehicle, even thought he actual failures were identical.

What are consumer reports reliability ratings based on? Owner surveys.