MotorCaliber is an independent car-safety reference. We take the crash-test, recall, and complaint data the US government publishes, compute one transparent safety score from it, and rank cars so a shopper can compare measured safety instead of marketing.
01Why we exist
NHTSA publishes excellent data, but it lives across four separate tools: crash-test ratings in one place, recalls in another, complaints in a third, investigations in a fourth. Nobody joins them into a single honest picture of one car. That is what every MotorCaliber page does.
02How we stay independent
MotorCaliber is funded by advertising, including Google AdSense. Advertising never influences a score. Scores are computed by a published formula from federal data, and no manufacturer can pay to change one. We are not affiliated with NHTSA, the US government, or any automaker.
03What we measure, and what we do not
We measure crash-test safety, recall history, and complaint severity. We do not measure reliability, repair cost, dependability, or resale, because the underlying federal data does not support those claims. When a car has not been crash-tested, we say so plainly rather than guessing.
04Human review
Our editorial is generated from the exact figures on each page and reviewed against a fixed honesty standard: no invented ratings, no reliability language, and clear labeling of unverified complaints. Found an error? Our contact page has a report-a-data-error route.