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For each model year from 1988 through 2001, a Best Cars and Trucks Table and a Worst Cars and Trucks Table, based on the auto Reliability Percentrank, have been assembled. For every such year, General Motors lacked a model of its own on the Best Cars and Trucks Table; however, for every model year, from 1988 through 2001, General Motors has accounted for at least 28.5% of the entries in the Worst Cars and Trucks Table. In the Worst Cars and Trucks Table of 1997, it accounted for 65% of the entries, a record unapproached by Ford, Chrysler, or any other manufacturer. From the 2004 updates, the percentages of entries, by auto manufacturer, in the Worst Cars and Trucks Tables for 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001 are given in the following table:
Percentage of Model Entries in the Worst Cars and Trucks Tables for Each Manufacturer by Model Year
Auto Manufacturer 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 General Motors 46% 65% 49% 49% 42% 36% Ford 4% 3% 11% 8.5% 12% 14% Chrysler 42% 23% 18% 21% 13.5% 12% Volkswagen 6% 3% 10% 8.5% 11% 12% Volvo 0% 3% 6% 6% 2.5% 10% Jaguar 0% 0% 0% 0% 4% 2% Isuzu 0% 1.5% 0% 0% 2.5% 0% Hyundai 0% 0% 0% 1% 0% 5% Mercedes-Benz 0% 0% 3% 6% 10% 7% BMW 0% 0% 3% 0% 0% 2% Mitsubishi 2% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% Honda 0% 1.5% 0% 0% 2.5% 0% All others 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% From the table, it may be seen that General Motors' percentage of entries in the Worst Cars and Trucks of 2001 is nearly three times that of Ford and exactly three times that of Chrysler. The following chart depicts graphically the percentages for the Big Three over the fourteen-year data history.
And the next chart gives the extrapolations of these percentages to 2006. The extrapolations are linear regressions of degree one.
From this last chart, it may be seen that only General Motors has a long-term trend of increasingly larger percentages of the worst cars and trucks sold in North America, per the Reliability Percentrank, and by 2006, should the trend continue, it will have attained quite considerable dominance of the worst vehicles sold in North America by this measure of quality.
Source for the percentages of entries in the Worst Cars and Trucks Tables: Summary of the Best and Worst Cars and Trucks Tables for Model Years 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001
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