Specifically 2005-2008 legacy. I stuck with mostly generic items that applied to all trim levels. The head gasket thing is more common on the turbos which I had, but not exclusive. For a turbo exclusive, you can add the metal intercooler with plastic end tanks would start leaking due to the tabs that held it together deforming. I also left off the fact that the timing belt service is in the upper half of cost, because newer ones are timing chain, and it's far from the only vehicle with that.
I'll also point out if you think the article's perspective is worthwhile, the exact same sources they "analyzed", 2 out of three had subaru adjacent on the list. CR places subaru a bit higher.
CR also has ford in the
#2 spot for unreliability. I know a few people with previous generation escapes with over 300k on them. On the other hand, I know people with Edges that have gone through multiple transfer cases.
I know lots of people with RAMs with several hundred thousand miles on them, but RAM takes spot
[URL=http://www.jeeprenegadeforum.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=1]#1 0[/URL] on CR's 10 most unreliable vehicles. GM doesn't, but I know several people with suburbans who for a similar 300k-ish life span went through 3-4 rear ends. (all of them contractors of some flavor or another, but one who put his milage on it as a newspaper photographer).
A lot of the hit for the FCA brands comes down to the issues with their TPDM, which pissed a lot of people off.
Cost to replace is is about $1200 at the dealer.
Cost for a subaru head gasket replacement is about $1100.
IMO, execution on vehicles are getting pretty good and pretty similar. What is increasingly the divide amongst them are design and engineering choices. Almost everything I listed that has been an issue with my subaru has been a design or engineering choice that was wrong, not quality control, and almost all of them required you to own the vehicle for a year or more to find out about them.
We still get ranked lists, but very often these days they are talking about a difference between first and last that used to embody the difference between
#1 and
#2 0 15-20 years ago.