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Additional Information Pertaining to Durability and
Long-Term Ownership
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Additional
Charts Pertaining to Durability |
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(Each chart is linked to a news article providing additional
information.) |
More Charts and Tables appear below the list of
news articles.
Some Auto News Articles:
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January 2007:
Toyota Expands Dominance on Durability Measure |
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January 2007: Big Three Dominate 2006 and Cumulative U.S. Safety Recalls |
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January 2007: In the U.S. in 2006, Consumers Quicken Their Pace to Quality: Toyota Sales Soar and Honda Sales Rise as Big Three Sales Plunge |
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December 2006: Filling the Quota at the Consumer's Expense? How CR's 1998 GM Recommendations Fared |
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November 2006:
True Value Estimates of GM's 2007 Vehicles |
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November 2006:
The 2006 Updates: Honda Age-Equivalent Estimates: Estimates of When a Typical 1998 Model of Honda Motor Company Will Be as Troublesome as Typical 1998 Models of General Motors Corporation and Its Several Marques Were Circa 3 Years, 4 Years, ..., and 7 Years of Age |
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November 2006:
The 2006 Updates: Toyota Age-Equivalent Estimates: Estimates of When a Typical 1998 Model of Toyota Motor Corporation Will Be as Troublesome as Typical 1998 Models of General Motors Corporation and Its Several Marques Were Circa 3 Years, 4 Years, ..., and 7 Years of Age |
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October 2006:
Site Manager's 1984 Corolla Passes 500,000 Mark |
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October 2006:
The 2006 Updates: Toyota and Honda Account for 4 of 5 Most Durable Sport-Utility Vehicles; General Motors - 7 of 10 Worst: Will a Typical 1998 Toyota SUV Be More Trouble Free at 21 Years of Age Than a Typical 1998 GM SUV at 3? |
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October 2006:
The 2006 Updates: Toyota Tops in Pickup Reliability and Durability: Just How Bad, or Disastrous, Are GM Pickups? |
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October 2006:
The 2006 Updates: Toyota and Honda Account for 4 Most Durable Vehicle Lines; General Motors - 4 of 10 Worst: Will a Typical Toyota or Honda 1998 Model Be More Trouble Free at 20 Years of Age Than a Typical 1998 GM Model at 3? |
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September 2006:
Reliability Updates: Best and Worst Cars and Trucks Tables: A Chart Summary |
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August 2006:
Reliability Updates: For Vehicles 6-to-8 Years Old, Toyota Accounts for 7 of 10 Best, GM - 17 of 36 Worst |
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August 2006:
Reliability Updates: For Vehicles 5-to-7 Years Old, Toyota Accounts for 9 of 13 Best, GM - 17 of 42 Worst |
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August 2006:
Fitch Cuts Ford Debt Deeper into Junk, Retains Negative Outlook, Puts Estimated Post-Bankruptcy Recovery at 51-70%; Will GM-Ford Race to Bankruptcy End in Dead Heat? |
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August 2006:
Toyota Dominates Auto on Info's Rosters of High Mileage Vehicles; Honda Places Second: Another Auto Manufacturer Durability Award for Each |
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August 2006:
Ford Announces Recall of 1.2 Million More Incendiaries, But No New Relief for Owners of GM's Runaways, Collapsing Tailgates, and Engine Knockers |
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January 2006:
Toyota Overwhelmingly Dominates Another Measure of Durability |
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August 2005:
For Vehicles 6-to-8 Years Old, Toyota Garners 7 of Top 10 Reliability Percentranks, General Motors Gathers 23 of Lowest 36 |
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August 2005:
Speediest Dilapidations: General Motors Accounts for 16 of the 20 Worst |
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August 2005:
Toyota Dominates Auto on Info's Rosters of High Mileage Vehicles; Honda Places Second: Another Auto Manufacturer Durability Award for Each |
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August 2005:
In the U.S. in July 2005, Reliable Two and Nissan Sales Soar on Quality; Big Three Sales Soar on Discounts |
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July 2005:
Another Ford Fire: Park That Ford on the Street! IV |
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July 2005:
As Fires Mount, NHTSA Puts the Heat on Ford: Park That Ford on the Street! III |
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July 2005:
Did GM's Marketing Department Make Out GM's CEO an Unmitigated Nincompoop? |
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July 2005:
In the U.S. in June 2005, Sales by Quality Four Continue Growth and GM Shows World That It Can Move Off Dealer Lots Anything That Rolls |
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June 2005:
Site Manager Replaces Corolla Transmission: 1984 Torque Converter Expires at 478,943 Miles |
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June 2005:
Park That Ford on the Street! II |
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June 2005:
In the U.S. in May 2005, Sales Shift Toward Quality Continues |
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May 2005:
Fitch Says GM Bonds Junk Too |
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May 2005:
Does 'GM' Mean 'Junk'? |
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May 2005:
Toyota-Big Three Quality Gap Huge, and Growing |
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May 2005:
Toyota and Honda Rule Most Reliable List with 12 of 12 Best, GM Dominates Least Reliable List with 8 of 11 Worst |
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May 2005:
With U.S. Consumer Shift toward Quality Unabated, S&P Cuts GM and Ford's Debt to Junk |
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May 2005:
In the U.S. in April 2005, Quality Four Sales Soar, GM and Ford Continue Free Fall |
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May 2005:
Park That Ford on the Street! |
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April 2005:
Consumer Shift Toward Quality Gives Honda Market Capitalization Greater Than GM's and Ford's Combined |
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April 2005:
Moody's Cuts GM Long-Term Debt Rating to One Notch Above Junk, Puts Ford Debt Under Review |
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March 2005:
Additional Measures of Toyota's Dominion in Automotive Quality: Market Capitalizations and Bond Ratings of Toyota vs. General Motors, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, and Volkswagen |
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March 2005:
GM's Bond Rating, Bond Outlook, Common Stock, and Market Cap Take a Tumble, Reports WSJ |
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March 2005:
General Motors and Chrysler Dominate Consumer Reports Used-Cars-To-Avoid List |
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March 2005:
General Motors Dominates Consumer Reports Much-Worse-Than-Average Reliability List, Again |
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March 2005:
Toyota and Honda Again Dominate Consumer Reports Good Bets List |
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October 2004:
Is GM King of Junk? |
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October 2004:
The 2004 Auto Reliability Updates: Toyota Continues to Govern; GM Stays Stuck ... Deep, Down and Under, and Below |
The visitor may find the following tables and charts useful as well.
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Cumulative Number of Auto on Info
Auto Manufacturer Awards for Motor
Vehicle Quality |
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Cumulative Number of First Place Positions in Auto on Info's
Auto
Manufacturer Awards for Motor Vehicle Quality |
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Auto Manufacturer |
Awards |
Auto Manufacturer |
First Place Positions |
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Toyota |
35 |
Toyota |
34 |
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Honda |
27 |
Honda |
2 |
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Mercedes-Benz |
2 |
Mercedes-Benz |
0 |
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Nissan |
4 |
Nissan |
0 |
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BMW |
1 |
BMW |
0 |
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Volvo |
1 |
Volvo |
0 |
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General Motors |
0 |
General Motors |
0 |
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Ford |
0 |
Ford |
0 |
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Chrysler |
0 |
Chrysler |
0 |
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This table is current as of 15
October 2006. |
This table is current as of 15
October 2006. |
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Shares of Consumer Reports' 2005 Quick Picks, by Auto
Manufacturer and Motor Vehicle Line |
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Manufacturer |
Share of
2005 Reliability Quick Picks |
Share of
2005 Owner Satisfaction Quick Picks |
Share of
2005 Fuel Economy Quick Picks |
Share of
2005 Overall Quick Picks |
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Vehicle Line |
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Toyota |
.63 |
.47 |
.46 |
.33 |
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Lexus |
.11 |
.16 |
0.00 |
.14 |
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Toyota |
.53 |
.32 |
.46 |
.19 |
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Honda |
.21 |
.26 |
.38 |
.33 |
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Acura |
.11 |
.11 |
.08 |
.05 |
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Honda |
.11 |
.16 |
.31 |
.29 |
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Subaru |
.05 |
.11 |
0.00 |
.14 |
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Nissan |
0.00 |
.05 |
0.00 |
.14 |
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Infiniti |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
.05 |
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Nissan |
0.00 |
.05 |
0.00 |
.10 |
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Mazda |
.05 |
.05 |
.15 |
.051 |
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BMW |
0.00 |
.05 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Mitsubishi |
.05 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Ford, Chrysler,
General Motors, and all others |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Mazda's one entry, the Mazda3 i, may have been pulled from Consumer
Reports' Overall Quick Pick List due to a
"Poor" side-impact crash test rating
by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The Insurance
Institute's rating did cause Consumer Reports to pull the Mazda3
from its recommended list. |
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All shares are rounded to two
significant digits. |
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CR 2005 Quick Picks are quick pick
models of model year 2005. |
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Note: A rebadge of a product
engineered by Toyota, but sold by another auto manufacturer, is
omitted from the latter's share. |
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Source for Consumer Reports' Good
Bets: "Quick Picks," Consumer Reports, April 2005, P. 31 |
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Shares of Consumer Reports' 2006 Good Bets for Model Years
1998-2005 with Selected 1997-2001 Reliability Percentrank Averages,
by Auto Manufacturer and Motor Vehicle Line |
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Manufacturer |
Share of CR 2006 Good Bets
with a 1997-2001 Reliability Percentrank Average1 Greater
Than or Equal to .80 |
Share of CR 2006 Good Bets
with a 1997-2001 Reliability Percentrank Average1 Greater
Than or Equal to .85 |
Share of CR 2006 Good Bets
with a 1997-2001 Reliability Percentrank Average1 Greater
Than or Equal to .90 |
Share of CR 2006 Good Bets
with a 1997-2001 Reliability Percentrank Average1 Greater
Than or Equal to .95 |
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Vehicle Line |
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Toyota |
.48 |
.52 |
.57 |
.83 |
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Lexus |
.13 |
.16 |
.22 |
.33 |
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Toyota |
.35 |
.35 |
.35 |
.50 |
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Honda |
.28 |
.29 |
.26 |
.17 |
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Acura |
.10 |
.13 |
.09 |
0.00 |
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Honda |
.18 |
.16 |
.17 |
.17 |
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Subaru |
.10 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Nissan |
.12 |
.16 |
.13 |
0.00 |
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Infiniti |
.07 |
.10 |
.13 |
0.00 |
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Nissan |
.05 |
.06 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Mazda |
.02 |
.03 |
.04 |
0.00 |
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Ford, Chrysler,
General Motors, and all others |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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If the vehicle model is too new for a 1997-2001 Reliability Percentrank average to exist, the early 2002 Reliability Percentrank
is used when such exists. |
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All shares are rounded to two
significant digits. |
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CR Good Bets are models that have three or more
model years between 1998 and 2005 of better-than-average reliability. An auto
Reliability Percentrank is
a measure of relative overall reliability used by Auto on Info. |
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Note: Two rebadges of products
engineered by Toyota, but sold by another auto manufacturer, are
omitted from the latter's share. |
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Source for Consumer Reports' Good
Bets: "CR Good Bet: The Best of Both World's,"
Consumer Reports Cars: Used
Car Buying Guide 2006, p.
25 |
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Median Reported
Severity of Engine Knock for Various Classes of GM Vehicles as
of July 12, 2005 |
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Class |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
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GM sport utility vehicles |
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GM minivans |
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√ |
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GM passenger cars |
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Value definitions: 0 is not
auditorily offensive; 2 is auditorily offensive; 6 is very
auditorily offensive; 8 is extremely auditorily offensive. |
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To view more results or to express
your opinion regarding the engine knock in General Motors
Corporation's products, go to Mini-Survey No. 65, "GM's
Piston Slap - Engine Knock." |
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Table I: Number and Percentage
of Entries in CR's 2006
Much-Worse-Than-Average List, by Manufacturer |
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Auto Manufacturer |
Number of Entries |
Percent of Entires |
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General Motors Corporation |
17 |
50.0% |
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Ford Motor Company |
6* |
17.6% |
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DaimlerChrysler AG |
4** |
11.8% |
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Volkswagen AG |
4 |
11.8% |
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BMW AG |
2 |
5.9% |
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Kia Motors
Corporation |
1 |
2.9% |
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All Others |
0 |
0% |
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*
Two are from Ford's North American group, two are from the
Jaguar division, one is from the Land Rover division, and one is
from the Volvo division. |
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**
Two are from DaimlerChrysler's North American Chrysler group and
two are from the Mercedes-Benz division. |
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Source: "CR Bad Bets: Be
Especially Careful," Consumer Reports Cars: Used Car Buying Guide
2006,
p. 26 |
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Median Value of a New Big Three
Vehicle as Assessed by Mini-Survey Respondents Reporting
Ownership of a Quality Four Product on or before July 8, 2005,
by Manufacturer |
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Manufacturer |
Big 3 Vehicle Valued at More Than
What Is Currently Asked |
Big 3 Vehicle Valued at What Is
Currently Asked |
Big 3 Vehicle Valued at Only 95%
of What Is Currently Asked |
Big 3 Vehicle Valued at Only 80%
of What Is Currently Asked |
Big 3 Vehicle Valued at Only 50%
of What Is Currently Asked |
Big 3 Vehicle Valued at Nothing |
Big 3 Vehicle Valued at Nothing
Plus Respondent Would Require $20,000+ per Year to Drive It |
Big 3 Vehicle Valued at Nothing
Plus Respondent Would Require $200,000+ per Year to Drive It |
Respondent Unwilling to Own a Big
Three Vehicle under Any Circumstance |
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Toyota Motor Corporation |
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√ |
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Honda Motor Company |
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√ |
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Subaru Division of Fuji Heavy
Industries, Ltd.1 |
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√ |
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Nissan Motor Company1 |
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√ |
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Very few respondents reported owning a product by Nissan or
Subaru. |
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The Big Three manufacturers are
General Motors Corporation, Ford Motor Company, and the Chrysler
Group of DaimlerChrysler AG. See
Glossary. |
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To view more results or to express
your assessment of the value of a new Big Three Vehicle, go to
Mini-Survey No. 31, "The
True Value of a Big Three." |
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Table X |
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S&P, Fitch,
and Moody's Senior Unsecured Long-Term Debt Ratings
as of September 19, 2006 |
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Ratings |
Automobile Manufacturers |
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S&P, Fitch Denominations |
Moody's Denominations |
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Investment Grade Ratings |
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AAA |
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Toyota Motor Corporation |
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AA+ |
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AA |
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AA- |
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A+ |
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Honda Motor Company |
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A |
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A- |
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BBB+ |
Baa1 |
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BBB |
Baa2 |
DaimlerChrysler AG |
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BBB- |
Baa3 |
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Junk Grade
Ratings |
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BB+ |
Ba1 |
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BB |
Ba2 |
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BB- |
Ba3 |
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B+ |
B1 |
Ford Motor Company |
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B |
B2 |
Ford
Motor Company,
General Motors Corporation |
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B- |
B3 |
Ford Motor Company,
General Motors Corporation |
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CCC+ |
Caa1 |
General Motors Corporation |
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CCC |
Caa2 |
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CCC- |
Caa3 |
Delphi Corporation
(GM's jettisoned aggregation
of parts plants is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy.) |
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D |
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Moody's Ratings of General Motors Corporation's
Unsecured Long-Term Debt |
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