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What CR doesn't say, so few people realize:
1. The data are already about five months old, and will be over a year old when many people use them to buy a car next summer.
2. The average problem rate isn't very high, probably around 18 problems per 100 cars for the 2008s (based on past years; they didn't have a number when asked this year). So the differences between the different "blobs" is only three or four problems per 100 cars.
For vehicle reliability information that is promptly updated four times a year and actual repair rates (not just blobs):
http://www.truedelta.com
Do you want to know how reliable a car was a year ago, when it was a year younger and had 12,000 or more fewer miles on it, or how reliable it has been recently?
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