Automobile Brand and Manufacturer Quality in 2000
by James Bleeker
Content Summary
This section of Auto on Info rates and ranks auto brands and auto manufacturers with significant sales in the U.S.
The ratings and rankings are for year 2000 and use the statistics
found in the Used-Cars-to-Avoid table and the
reliability charts of the April 2000 issue of Consumer Reports,
likely the most respected and followed source of
automobile-quality information in North America.
Each page has a "Summary and Analysis" section.
This section currently has the following pages:
2000 - The 10 Best Automobile Brands: Go
2000 - The 10 Worst Automobile Brands: Go
2000 - The Ratings and Rankings of All Automobile Brands: Go
2000 - The Ratings and Rankings of All Automobile Manufacturers: Go
Highlights
Some interesting highlights of automobile brand and manufacturer quality
in 2000 are:
1. Honda Motor Company's Acura and Toyota Motor
Corporation's Toyota and Lexus
placed in the Top 4 brands by both of the quality rankings employed in this
section.
2. Brands of General Motors Corporation and the Chrysler
Group accounted for half or more of the Bottom 10 by both quality rankings.
3. Toyota Motor Corporation was the only manufacturer to
place in the Top
3 by both quality rankings.
4. The Big Three - General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford
Motor Company - accounted for half of the Bottom 6 by both quality rankings.
For a Google Knol by site manager that summarizes the changes in auto-brand and auto-manufacturer ranking from 1990 to 2010
by the quality measures of this section, click
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