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For Vehicles 2-to-4 Years Old, Toyota Garners 11 of Top 16, General Motors - 16 of Bottom 40
Models by Toyota Motor Corporation account for eleven of the sixteen highest Reliability Percentranks for vehicles between the ages of two years and four years. Honda Motor Company and Nissan Motor Company each garner 2 of the top 16 and Mazda Motor Corporation garners the remaining 1 of the top 16.
The Reliability Percentranks are based on information appearing within Consumer Reports 2005 and 2004 reliability tables that pertains to model year 2001.
The following table lists the top sixteen models, together with their respective Reliability Percentranks.
The Best of 2001: Models with a Reliability Percentrank of .93 or More at Vehicular Age of 2-to-4 Years Model Reliability Percentrank Toyota's Lexus RX300 SUV .99 Toyota 4Runner V6 SUV .99 Honda CR-V SUV .99 4-cylinder Toyota Camry sedan .98 Toyota Echo sedan .98 Toyota Highlander SUV .97 Toyota Corolla .97 Toyota Land Cruiser SUV .97 Toyota Camry sedan .95 Toyota Tundra pickup truck .95 Honda Accord .95 Toyota Avalon sedan .94 Toyota's Lexus ES300 sedan .93 Nissan's Infiniti I30 sedan .93 Nissan's Infiniti QX4 SUV .93 Mazda MX-5 Miata convertible .93 The Honda CR-V is also among the Best of 1997, Best of 1998, the Best of 1999, and the Best of 2000. (See "For Vehicles 6-to-8 Years Old, Toyota Garners 7 of Top 10 Reliability Percentranks, General Motors Gathers 23 of Lowest 36," "For Vehicles 5-to-7 Years Old, Honda Garners 5 of Top 9, Toyota - 4 of Top 9, and General Motors - 19 of Bottom 38," "For Vehicles 4-to-6 Years Old, Toyota Garners 6 of Top 10, General Motors Garners 15 of Bottom 38," and "For Vehicles 3-to-5 Years Old, Toyota Garners 9 of Top 14, Honda - 5 of Top 14, and General Motors - 19 of Bottom 44," Auto on Info, August 2005.) The V6 Toyota 4Runner is also among the Best of 1997, Best of 1998, and the Best of 1999. And the Toyota Corolla is also among the Best of 1997 and the Best of 1999 and is as well a 39-year legend. (See Milestones in Automotive Quality.)
At the opposite end of the spectrum, General Motors Corporation's models account for 16 of the 40 lowest 2001 Reliability Percentranks for 2-to-4 year old vehicles. The following table lists the models with the thirty-eight lowest Reliability Percentranks.
The Worst of 2001: Models with a Reliability Percentrank of .25 or Less at Vehicular Age of 2-to-4 Years Model Reliability Percentrank Jaguar S-Type .20 2-wheel drive Ford Explorer .20 GM's Cadillac DeVille .20 Hyundai Santa Fe .18 4-cylinder Volkswagen Passat .18 V6 all-wheel drive Volkswagen Passat .18 Ford's Mercury Cougar .18 Volvo V70 .15 Volkswagen's Audi TT .15 GM's V6 4-wheel drive GMC Sonoma pickup truck .15 GM's Chevrolet Corvette .15 Chrysler Sebring Convertible .15 Mercedes-Benz E-Class .14 GM's Oldsmobile Alero .14 GM's Oldsmobile Aurora .13 GM's Chevrolet Astro van .13 GM's Pontiac Grand Prix SC .13 GM's extended Pontiac Montana .13 Chrysler's V6 2-wheel drive Dodge Grand Caravan .13 Volkswagen New Beetle .09 Ford Windstar .09 GM's Pontiac Bonneville .09 GM's Pontiac Grand Am .09 Volvo V70 Cross Country, XC70 .08 2-wheel drive extended Chrysler Town & Country .08 Volvo S80 .07 GM's GMC Safari van .07 GM's Pontiac Aztek .07 BMW X5 .04 4-cylinder Volkswagen Jetta .04 GM's Cadillac Seville .04 GM's extended Chevrolet Venture van .04 GM's GMC Jimmy .03 GM's Chevrolet Blazer .03 All-wheel drive Chrysler Town & Country .03 Mercedes-Benz C-Class .02 Land Rover Discovery SUV .02 Mercedes-Benz M-Class SUV .01 V6 Volkswagen Golf .01 4-cylinder Turbo Volkswagen Jetta 0.00 A breakdown of the Worst of 2001 by manufacturer appears in the next table. For this table, each model entry in the above table that is based on one year of data (rather than 2 years of data) is treated as a half entry.
Distribution of the 40 Lowest Reliability Percentranks for Model Year 2001, by Manufacturer Manufacturer Percentage General Motors Corporation 42% Volkswagen AG 15% Chrysler Group of DaimlerChrysler AG 9% Mercedes-Benz Division of DaimlerChrysler AG 9% Ford Motor Company 8% Volvo Division of Ford Motor Company 6% BMW 3% Hyundai 3% Jaguar 3% Land Rover 2% GM's current percentage of the Worst of 2001 increased quite a bit from last year's percentage of 36% for vehicles aged 2-to-3 years, but Chrysler's decreased some from 12 % to 9%. For the 2005 updates of the Worst of 1997, the Worst of 1998, the Worst of 1999, the Worst of 2000, and the Worst of 2001,General Motors' percentage of the worst has increased in 4 of the 5 model years and Chrysler's percentage has declined in 4 of the 5 model years. GM's growth in dominance of the worst of recent years suggests that GM products will likely dominate the speedy dilapidation segment of the motor vehicle market for some time to come.
Source: The Best and Worst of 2001
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