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Chevrolet Upholds a Tradition: GM's Chevrolet Line Worst by CR's 2007 Vehicles-to-Avoid List
By James B. Bleeker
General Motors Corporation's Chevrolet line had more entries on Consumer Reports' 2007 Vehicles-to-Avoid list than any other line, by quite a margin. It had 100 entries; the second worst had only 62 entries.
The following chart depicts the count of each line's number of entries on CR's 2007 Vehicles-to-Avoid list, multiplied by -1 to reflect its negative character, for the 5 best lines and the 15 worst lines.
It should be noted that save for the several model years of the Honda Passport, a rebadged product by Isuzu Motors Ltd., Honda Motor Company's Honda line had no entries on CR's 2007 Vehicles-to-Avoid list. Thus, if the Honda line had been limited to Honda-engineered products, the Honda line would have been within the top 5.
To give an appreciation as to how bad the Chevrolet line is, we turn to the reliability tables in the Reliability Ratings section of the April 2007 issue of Consumer Reports. In this section, the Chevrolet line has 20 reliability tables, reflecting a combination of the number of models in the Chevrolet line and the amount of data available for the line. We look at other lines with a similar number of reliability tables to see how bad, or truly awful, the Chevrolet line is. The contrasts are rather remarkable; the results appear in the following table.
Table I: Number of Entries on Consumer Reports' 2007 Vehicles-to-Avoid List and Number of Reliability Tables in CR's 2007 Reliability Ratings Section for Vehicle Lines Having 14 or More Reliability Tables Line Number of Reliability Tables in CR's 2007 Reliability Section Number of Entries on CR's 2007 Vehicles-to-Avoid List GM's Chevrolet Line 20 100 Ford's Ford Line 19 37 Toyota's Toyota Line 21 0 Sources: "Vehicles to Avoid," Consumer Reports, April 2007, pp. 81,82 and "Reliability Ratings," Consumer Reports, April 2007, pp. 83-93 To provide an improved comparison between lines, we divide the number of each line's entries on CR's 2007 Vehicles-to-Avoid list by the line's number of reliability tables appearing in CR's 2007 Reliability Ratings section. As GM's Oldsmobile line is a defunct line, it is omitted. In the count of GM's Pontiac reliability tables, the table devoted to a Toyota-engineered product is excluded. Again, each value is multiplied by -1 to reflect its negative character. The chart of the resulting 5 best lines and 15 worst lines appears below.
The top 5 lines are unchanged, and although the relative values for the bottom 15 change rather considerably, the bottom 15 change rather modestly. Eleven of the bottom 15 are common to both tables and the only new manufacturer in the second table is Suzuki Motor Corporation.
Source for entries on CR's 2007 Used-Cars-to-Avoid list: "Vehicles to Avoid," Consumer Reports, April 2007, pp. 81,82
Source for numbers of reliability tables: "Reliability Ratings," Consumer Reports, April 2007, pp. 83-93
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