Why do some cars have scores higher than any of their component-scores?
Sometimes you’ll see a car with an overall score that’s higher than any of the component scores (e.g. Performance, Exterior, etc.). This happens because we also factor in the reviewers’ overall impression of a car. Occasionally a car is more (or less) than the sum of its parts and we rely on the experts whose reviews we survey to let us know when that’s the case.
