The thing I've noticed about
The thing I've noticed about JDP awards is that they recognize "initial" very heavily. It is not a good measure of experience of buyers more attunes to mechanical function and core validity of the vehicle. They can torpedo a vehicle for a flaw in the "chrome" of a cheap plastic dash trim piece when the rest of the vehicle is of utmost integrity.
I've experienced vehicles that were parting themselves out by 65K miles but were pretty and scored well in JDPs, others who were little recognized in JDPs but were resolute beyond 200K miles. Curiously those have been Subarus.
My take is that the JDPs are super for sorting which car to lease or which vehicle will be well received by new to vehicle purchasing buyers and brand changing buyers.