2012's Reliability GPAs and
Grades for Cars and Trucks Sold in North
America:
Summary and Menu
by James Bleeker
Pages in this section of AutoOnInfo.net provide tables and charts on auto
reliability in 2012. All tables offer Reliability GPAs for 4 age ranges, an
Overall Reliability GPA and corresponding Reliability Grade, and a Minimum
GPA and corresponding Grade. Pages offering a table have a chart that
depicts some or all of the Overall GPAs given within the table and one or
more charts that depict manufacturer shares of the best or worst. Three
pages have charts only.
The 2012 Full Spectrum Tables of Reliability GPAs
Cars and Trucks
Car and Truck Brands
Car and Truck Manufacturers
The 2012 Tables of Best Cars and Trucks
2012's Best Cars and Trucks
2012's Best Small Cars
2012's Best Hatchbacks
2012's Best Family Cars
2012's Best 4-Cylinder Family Cars
2012's Best Hybrids
2012's Best Wagons
2012's Best Upscale Cars
2012's Best Luxury Cars
2012's Best Sport Cars
2012's Best SUVs
2012's Best Small SUVs
2012's Best Midsize SUVs
2012's Best Large SUVs
2012's Best Minivans
2012's Best All-Wheel-Drive and 4-Wheel-Drive Cars and Trucks
2012's Best Pickups
The 2012 Tables of Worst Cars and Trucks
2012's
Worst
Cars and Trucks
2012's Worst Small Cars
2012's Worst Hatchbacks
2012's Worst
Family Cars
2012's Worst
4-Cylinder Family Cars
2012's Worst
Hybrids
2012's
Worst
Wagons
2012's Worst
Upscale Cars
2012's Worst
Luxury Cars
2012's Worst
Sport Cars
2012's
Worst
SUVs
2012's
Worst
Small SUVs
2012's
Worst
Midsize SUVs
2012's
Worst
Large SUVs
2012's
Worst
Minivans
2012's
Worst
All-Wheel-Drive and 4-Wheel-Drive Cars and Trucks
2012's
Worst
Pickups
The 2012 Charts
Charts of Best and Worst Cars and Trucks
Charts of Auto Maker Shares of the Best
Charts of Auto Maker Shares of the
Worst
The 2012 Chart of Auto Manufacturer GPAs
Below is the chart depicting each auto manufacturer's 2012 Overall Reliability GPAs

Note the very sizable drop in GPA from Toyota Motor Corporation to Suzuki
Motor Corporation.
The Auto Reliability GPAs are automobile reliability
statistics that are obtained from Consumer Reports' auto reliability
survey data summarized in the reliability tables of (1) Consumer Reports: New Car
Buying Guide: 2012, (2) Consumer Reports: Used Car Buying Guide: 2012, and
(3) the April 2012 issue of the Consumer Reports magazine.
The method of computation of the GPAs is probably familiar to nearly every college, technical school, and high school student.
For each model year, a Grade Point of 4.00 (that is, an A) is given to a Consumer Reports Used Car Verdict
of "Much Better Than Average," a GP of 3.00 (that is, a B) is given to a CR
"Better Than Average" rating, a GP of 2.00 (that is, a C) to an "Average"
rating, a GP of 1.00 (that is, a D) to a "Worse Than Average" rating, and a
GP of 0.00 (that is, an F) to a "Much Worse Than Average" rating. A
4-year Grade
Point Average (GPA) is an average of the Grade Points and is computed using
Microsoft's Average(a:b,[c:d],...) function. The Overall GPA of a model is the average of the four 4-year GPAs.
The GPAs of brands and manufacturers are the averages of the model
GPAs.
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