Study: Buick is most reliable domestic brand
Toyota Motor Corp.’s Lexus luxury brand topped Consumer Reports’ 2021 Auto Reliability Report with Buick finishing at No. 5 as the only domestic brand to make the top 10 of 28 makes.
The results, released on Thursday before the Automotive Press Association, highlight the reliability of hybrid and plug-in vehicles, though problems persisted particularly with advanced technology in electric vehicles and with transmissions in traditional international combustion engine vehicles.
The report is based on survey data from more than 300,000 vehicles that comes as customers are having to pay record vehicle prices amid a global microchip shortage and other supply-chain bottlenecks that have stifled production.
At Buick, the Encore and redesigned Envision were above average, though transmission, drive system and blank in-car electronic screen issues dropped the Enclave to below average.
Aside from Buick, General Motors Co. had Chevrolet finishing at No. 14, Cadillac at No. 16 and GMC at No. 22.