Car Reliability

I've always strived to look for a highly reliable car ever since having problems with my current car. I stumbled across the MSN Autos site recently and apparently they have reliablity ratings for vehicles up to 2006. The important thing about this site though (unlike others) is that it actually mentions the faults that may occur with a particular model not some rating based on a customer's perception of quality. Unlucky for me, both faults that were listed as possible became a certainty for me :(.