How we work

motorwick exists to put public car data in one readable place: model-year reliability scores, recall lists and fuel economy for the cars Americans buy most.

Where the numbers come from

Every figure starts in a government file we download ourselves: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, the EPA fuel economy file and the EIA weekly gas price, plus U.S. sales collected from automaker reports with a source for each one. Scripts turn those files into counts and scores. The Sources page lists each file and its license; the Method page explains the scoring rule.

How the words are written

The short descriptions of each model and its generations are drafted with the help of AI writing tools and then checked against public references before they go live. Sentences that describe the data, such as which year drew the most complaints, are generated from the numbers themselves, so they change when the data changes.

What is checked

Before any page is published, automated tests build the whole site and check links, page structure, accessibility and the data imports; an import that looks incomplete is rejected and the previous data stays. A person from our team reviews a sample of new pages every week and corrects what is wrong.

Errors and corrections

If a number or a fact looks wrong, write through the Contact page with the page address. Confirmed errors are fixed and the page date is updated.

What we never do

No paid rankings, no invented reviews or testimonials, no owner quotes, and no data about individual owners or vehicles.