um.. okay... 
How much do you guys trust TD Power anyway?
I trust them alot more than Consumer Reports.
However..
They do not take into consideration that Buick-Jag-Lexus owners don't drive as much as a Dodge-Chevrolet or Ford driver owner. Trucks get driven alot more than cars, so that's why "truck brands" don't get a high rating. This is why the "more reliable" brands are luxury brands.. driven by elderly people, while truck brands and young brands (like Suzuki for example), are "less reliable".
Always take those results with a grain of salt: if the brands had new models at the time of the "survey" they will be less reliable, if the brands have customers that drive more miles per year, they will be shown as " less reliable".
Buick IS known to be one of the most reliable car brand there is. An Allure is on a reliable plateform, has a bulletproof engine and the transmission will go on forever. I don't know why that car doesn't outsell the Camry because the automotive example of the ultra-reliable blandmobile is the Allure. It is a little more expensive than the Toyota competitor, but it comes with a real engine on the CX base model.
Bottom line: these reliability and intial quality studies have lots of flaws. While they do indicate a certain trend, every cars can be reliable or unreliable, depending on its use. Certain cars are made to be driven softly and they'll go forever, while others have a pretty random reliability but are solide as a rock. The yaris for example is a car that is made to be driven softly in city streets, while a Crown Vic is made to be beaten and will go on forever. The yaris is probably more reliable but if you use both the same ways, the Ford wins.
