Has CR said this? I believe they were reported in past years. These two brands have been represented in reliability reports for individual cars and if you have enough data to report reliability for a single car model, you certainly should have enough to do an aggregate over the entire brand.

And I disagree with you that these sorts of overall aggregate ratings are "not very usable" for a purchase decision for two reasons. First, by reporting by brand rather than individual model, there is a much more statistically valid sample size. Second, the mfgs are constantly revising cars and/or coming out with new models. This makes detailed historical data on individual obsolete models much less useful as a prediction tool for a new model. Having some idea of a mfg's reliabilty rating for the brand as a whole is very useful in these situations. For a used car, I agree, looking at the data for a particular year/model is more useful.

- Mark

 

Mark, I did notice at least one "past year" reliability rating, but it appears they rarely have received enough responses from Jaguar and LR owners to draw conclusions. This year all of their models were rated "insufficient data".

 

Me agree with Mark said. Him smart. Ung!

 

Get a new wife

 

Interesting. Even as spotty as Mini is, I believe LR and Jaguar would be higher up the list than Mini if they were included.

- Mark