Subaru Ranks Above Toyota in JD Power Dependability Survey

Subaru's sixth-place finish above Toyota in the JD Power Dependability Survey is worth pausing on, because Toyota's reliability reputation is so deeply embedded in the public consciousness that most buyers never question it. For anyone shopping a Japanese SUV and defaulting to Toyota on reputation alone, this is a prompt to actually look at the data rather than the badge. It doesn't mean Toyota is unreliable — it means Subaru's dependability case is stronger than its marketing budget suggests.