Automobile Brand and Manufacturer Quality in 2005
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 2005 and use the statistics found in the Used-Cars-to-Avoid table and the reliability charts of the April 2005 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:

2005 - The 10 Best Automobile Brands: Go
2005 - The 10 Worst Automobile Brands: Go
2005 - The Ratings and Rankings of All Automobile Brands: Go
2005 - The Ratings and Rankings of All Automobile Manufacturers: Go

Highlights

Some interesting highlights of automobile brand and manufacturer quality in 2005 are:

1. Honda Motor Company's Acura and Honda, Toyota Motor Corporation's Toyota and Lexus, Nissan Motor Company's Infiniti, and Fuji Heavy Industries' Subaru brands placed in the Top 7 by both of the quality rankings employed in this section.

2. Brands of General Motors Corporation and the Chrysler Group accounted for half of the Bottom 10 brands by both quality rankings.

3. All three of the North American brands of Ford Motor Company placed in the top half by both quality measures.

4. The Mercedes-Benz brand, once the icon of engineering excellence and among the Top 10 in 1995, placed in the Bottom 10 in 2005.

4. Toyota Motor Corporation and Fuji Heavy Industries were the two manufacturers to place in the Top 3 by both quality rankings.

5. The three automobile manufacturers that were common to the Bottom 3 by both quality measures are Volkswagen, Jaguar, and Daimler.

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 Go.

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