How do Consumer Reports (and others) rate reliability for new vehicles?

Question

I mean – how can they do this? I can see where they can see if previous flaws are fixed and a car maker has a history of less recalls – but that still doesn’t mean a newly redesigned vehicle won’t have major flaws. Please explain.

In: Engineering

Answer 1

Every car gets tested by the manufacturer before the model becomes available for sale. Indipendent instances and motormagazine also have a series of tests.