According to a recent annual survey for 2009, conducted by – Consumer Reports for Car Reliability in America, Japanese Vehicles were found to be the most reliable. American consumers favor Japanese brands like Honda and Toyota for reliable vehicles.  This substantiates the first class engineering of Japanese Automakers who create world class automobiles.

In the Consumer Reports Survey – on the basis of reliability and dependability – Japanese cars have comfortably outperformed American models.  Out of 48 models which topped the reliability scores, around 36 were from Asia and 33 models were from Japan alone.  Japanese models which topped the list in this vehicle reliability survey are Toyota with 18, Honda with 8, Nissan with 4 and Subaru with 3 models.

The only American automaker which made to the top in the reliability survey is Ford. Many of the Ford models such as mid sized Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan are consistently near the top of their respective classes.

On the whole,  Japanese automobiles are consistently performing well in the reliability survey.   All the Japanese brands such as Toyota, Nissan, Subaru, Honda and Acuras were ranked average or above.

Toyota, with its Scion and Lexus brands was the winner with 18 models.  The only vehicle that failed in the reliability survey was the Lexus GS AWD.   Toyota’s model Scion which is youth-oriented brand occupied first position for the second year in a row.

Honda Insight was judged as the most reliable car – It is s 27 times more likely to have a problem than Volkswagen Touareg – the least reliable vehicle, as per the survey.

The Nissan’s  performance was quite good as four of its models including the Infiniti QX56 and Nissan Armada SUVs performed to reviewers’ satisfaction.

Like every year, most of the Subaru models were considered very reliable. Except for Subaru’s turbocharged sports car Impreza WRX, all the other models are average or above.

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