About

MotorAlmanac reads the U.S. federal vehicle record and says what it adds up to, one model year at a time.

The pilot covers 397 model years across 69 Ford and Toyota models, 1996-2026. Data as of 2026-10-28. Coverage grows only when the pages behind it hold up.

What this site will not do

• Publish a page for a model year the data cannot support. A year without enough evidence is listed on its model page instead.
• Compare one model against another on complaint counts. Counts follow sales, not reliability.
• Present a service bulletin as a defect finding, or an owner complaint as a verified fact.

Who writes it

A. Evirgen edits MotorAlmanac and writes its guides from NHTSA public recall, complaint and investigation records, which the site counts and cross-checks for every model year it covers.

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The rules behind every page are written down on the methodology page, including what the site does not measure.

Corrections

If a page misreads the record, write to us. A figure that comes from one of the site's rules is corrected in the rule, so every page built from it is put right; an article is corrected in the article.