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Before I bought my Ram I drove Nissan trucks for more than 20 years, after I had switched from Chevy/GMC trucks. My Nissan trucks were excellent - I went from Hardbody to Frontier to Titan. I will say that the Titan had more issues than the Frontier, which had more issues than the Hardbody, but none of them had issues like my Chevy/GMCs did. I would probably still be in a Nissan today if there was a dealer worth a crap and they hadn't changed the body style to something so awful looking. But I'm really happy with the Ram, and I see it's way up there in both CR and JD Power.
As for CR, I give them props on the car reviews. They've led me wrong a couple times on other stuff, but on car predictability it's been spot-on to my own experiences. Which is not surprising because previous year ratings are based on customer reports. When I think back on the cars I've owned that sucked, I can remember that CR said they sucked and I bought them anyway. And the ones they said were good pretty much mirrored my experience.
I think where some of the ratings can go off the rails is what one person thinks is serious another one doesn't even notice. I might hear wind noise from a vehicle and think nothing of it, while someone else will complain incessantly about "fit and finish" or something similar based on that.
As for CR, I give them props on the car reviews. They've led me wrong a couple times on other stuff, but on car predictability it's been spot-on to my own experiences. Which is not surprising because previous year ratings are based on customer reports. When I think back on the cars I've owned that sucked, I can remember that CR said they sucked and I bought them anyway. And the ones they said were good pretty much mirrored my experience.
I think where some of the ratings can go off the rails is what one person thinks is serious another one doesn't even notice. I might hear wind noise from a vehicle and think nothing of it, while someone else will complain incessantly about "fit and finish" or something similar based on that.