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| August 2007: Estimating Model-Year-2008 Reliability: How High Will Toyota's Rise and How Low Will the Big Three's Tumble? |
| August 2007: The 2007 Reliability-Durability Updates: For Vehicles 3-to-5 Years Old, Toyota and Honda Account for 18 of 19 Best, GM - 24 of 61 Worst |
| July 2007: The 2007 Reliability-Durability Updates: For Vehicles 4-to-6 Years Old, Toyota and Honda Account for 17 of 17 Best, GM - 24 of 56 Worst: Will a Typical Toyota at 13 Years of Age Be as Troublesome as a Typical GM at 3 Years of Age? |
| July 2007: The 2007 Reliability-Durability Updates: For Vehicles 5-to-7 Years Old, Toyota and Honda Account for 12 of 13 Best, GM - 19 of 48 Worst: Will a Typical Toyota at 21 Years of Age Be as Troublesome as a Typical GM at 3 Years of Age? |
| July 2007: The 2007 Reliability-Durability Updates: For Vehicles 6-to-8 Years Old, Toyota and Honda Account for 13 of 13 Best, GM - 18 of 43 Worst: Will a Typical Toyota at 19 Years of Age Be as Troublesome as a Typical GM at 3 Years of Age? |
| July 2007: The 2007 Reliability-Durability Updates: For Vehicles 7-to-9 Years Old, Toyota and Honda Account for 11 of 12 Best, GM - 22 of 41 Worst: Will a Typical Toyota at 30 Years of Age Be as Troublesome as a Typical GM at 3 Years of Age? |
| June 2007: May U.S. Safety Recalls by Jaguar (1), Volvo (2), Chrysler (2), and Hyundai (1), GM Engine Fire Investigation Expanded and Upgraded |
| June 2007: The J.D. Power Surveys: Gleaning Values from Things That May Be Worth, Individually, Something Close to Nothing: GM in the Dumps Again |
| May 2007: Does GM Mean Junk and Ford Too? Toyota and Honda Shine Again. |
| May 2007: NHTSA Investigates ... - GM (3), Land Rover (1) |
| May 2007: In 2007, Toyota and Honda Dominate Most Reliable List with 10 of 11 Best, GM Dominates Least Reliable List with 7 of 10 Worst |
| May 2007: Toyota Reliability Drops Some, But Toyota-GM Gap Remains Near Record |
| April 2007: As the Earth Warms, Senator Boxer Pushes Hard for CO2 Regs and GM's Vice Chairman Robert Lutz Fiddles a Refrain |
| April 2007: NHTSA Investigates SUVs: GM's Corroding Fuel Pump Modules and Leaks and Ford's Failing Drive Shafts or Axle Differentials |
| April 2007: U.S. Safety Recalls by Land Rover (1), Volkswagen (1), General Motors (2), Saab (1), Chrysler (5), Ford (5, Including Another Fire Hazardous Deactivation Switch Recall), Mazda (1), Nissan (1), Subaru (1), Honda (2), and Toyota (1) |
| April 2007: Owners Sue GM over Speedily Dilapidating Speedometers |
| April 2007: Are Big Three Pickups Abominations? |
| April 2007: By Yet Another Quality Measure, Toyota and Honda Are Best and GM and DaimlerChrysler - Worst: The UCS 2007 Environmental Report |
| March 2007: Chevrolet Upholds a Tradition: GM's Chevrolet Line Worst by CR's 2007 Vehicles-to-Avoid List |
| March 2007: GM Expands Lead on CR's Used-Cars-to-Avoid List, a Tad |
| March 2007: GM Maintains Leadership in Much-Worse-Than-Average: A Guide to Making Sales Challenging |
| February 2007: NHTSA Gives GM's Buick LaCrosse One Star (Out of Five) for Side Impact; Center for Auto Safety Calls for Investigation of GM's Pontiac GTO for Tire Blowouts |
| February 2007: U.S. Safety Recalls by Land Rover, Volkswagen, General Motors, Chrysler, Honda, and Toyota |
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February 2007: NHTSA Investigates GM Engine Fires; Ford Not the Only One with Fire Problems |
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February 2007: Does GM Mean Junk of the 7th Level of Abomination? |
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January 2007: The 2006 Updates: Estimated Rates of Motor Vehicle Deterioration, by Line and Manufacturer |
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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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November 2006: By CR's Predicted Short-Term Reliability for Model Year 2007, Toyota and Honda Dominate Best and GM, Ford and DaimlerChrysler Dominate Worst, per Detroit News Table |
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November 2006: NHTSA Safety Investigations: More Seat Fires for Chrysler and More Engine Compartment Fires for Ford, Plus Summary and Others |
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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: AFP Reports J.D. Powers Says 61% of U.S. Car Buyers Want Reliability and Durability: More Disastrous News for GM? |
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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: Toyota and Honda Account for Two Best Minivans; General Motors Accounts for 5 of 8 Worst |
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September 2006: Reliability Updates: Toyota and Honda Still Tops, But Lose Luster; General Motors Still Worst of Major Auto Manufacturers; Hyundai Clobbers GM Yet Again |
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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: Reliability Updates: For Vehicles 4-to-6 Years Old, Toyota Accounts for 8 of 14 Best, GM - 19 of 47 Worst |
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August 2006: Reliability Updates: For Vehicles 3-to-5 Years Old, Toyota Accounts for 13 of 15 Best, GM - 17 of 47 Worst |
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August 2006: Reliability Updates: For Model Year 2002, Toyota Accounts for 11 of 16 Best, GM - 16 of 53 Worst |
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August 2006: For 2-to-3-Year-Old Model-Year-2003 Vehicles, Toyota Garners 8 of Top 9 and 9 of Top 14, General Motors Accounts for 18 of Bottom 46 |
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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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August 2006: U.S. Safety Recalls by General Motors, Chrysler, Nissan, Honda, and Toyota |
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June 2006: U.S. Safety Recalls by Volkswagen (1), General Motors (1), Volvo (1), and Toyota (1) |
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June 2006: Coolant Gives GM Heat |
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May 2006: In Crash Tests of Minivans with Side Airbags, Hyundai Scores Best and GM Scores Worst |
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May 2006: U.S. Safety Recalls by General Motors (2), Ford (3), Chrysler (4), Mazda (1), Nissan (3), and Toyota (1) |
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May 2006: Jury Finds Weak Roof of GM's Chevrolet Blazer Made SUV Unreasonably Dangerous for Use: Supreme Court Upholds $18 Million Judgment: NHTSA Prospectively Meddles |
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March 2006: Toyota Reliability Takes Another Leap Up; Honda's Too; Toyota-GM Reliability Gap Sets Another Record: Will GM Bottom? |
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March 2006: U.S. NHTSA Investigations Involving (1) 2000-2001 Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable, (2) 2000-2003 Saturn Sedans, (3) 2000-2001 Honda Odyssey Minivans, (5) 2001-2003 Dodge Durango SUVs, (5) 2004-2005 Chrysler Pacifica SUVs, (6) 2003 Nissan Altima Sedans, (7) 1998-2004 Audi A6 Sedans, (8) 1999-2001 Ford Super Duty Trucks, (9) 2004-2006 Chrysler Pacifica SUVs, (10) 2004-2005 Toyota Sienna Minivans, (11) 2004-2006 Dodge Durango SUVs and 2005-2006 Dodge Dakota Pickups, and (12) 2005-2006 Dodge Caravan, Dodge Grand Caravan, and Chrysler Town and Country Minivans |
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March 2006: GM's Chevrolet Aveo Flunks Crash Test |
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March 2006: GM Truck Owners Hot under the Collar over Salt on the Casing: The Runaway Saga Continues |
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March 2006: In April 2005, NHTSA Ratcheted Up Investigation into Collapsing Tailgates of 3.1 Million GM Pickups; in March 2006, GM Recalls 805,368: And the Rest? |
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February 2006: Chevrolet Reliability Worst of Big Three Brands, by CR Measures |
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February 2006: General Motors and DaimlerChrysler Again Dominate CR's Used-Cars-to-Avoid List |
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February 2006: Into the Pits and Down and Under Charges the General; General Motors Sets Record Share of CR's Much-Worse-Than-Average |
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December 2005: Toyota, Honda, Ford, Mercedes, GM, and Volvo Recall a Batch; Ford's 'Solution' to Its Incendiary Problem Will Not Be Available until February |
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December 2005: GM Drags Its Three, or So, Feet, But Finally Recalls Its Runaway-Prone SUVs and Pickups in Additional Cold-Weather, Salt-Rich States |
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December 2005: By CR's Predicted Short-Term Reliability for Model Year 2006, Toyota and Honda Dominate Best, GM and Ford Dominate Worst |
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November 2005: NHTSA Investigates Ford and GM Sedans; Chrysler Recalls a Batch for 'Park' Problems; General Motors Recalls SUVs for Door Latch Corrosion |
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September 2005: 2005 Reliability Updates: Plunging into the Depths - The Five Worst Marques by Reliability Percentrank Average Drop from 1988 to 2001 |
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September 2005: 2005 Reliability Updates: Big Three Appear Hopelessly Stuck in Quality Quagmire; Selling Dirt Cheap May Be Best Route to Survival |
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September 2005: GM Recalls 804,000 Pickups and SUVs for Braking Problem Caused by Road Salt; Excluded are Cadillac Escalades and the Cold-Weather and Road-Salt-Rich States of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa |
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September 2005: Auto on Info Site Manager's Conclusion: GM Likely to Dominate Worst-Cars-and-Trucks Tables for Years to Come |
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August 2005: For 2-to-3-Year-Old Model Year 2002 Vehicles, Toyota Garners 6 of Top 9, General Motors - 13 of Bottom 45 |
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August 2005: For Vehicles 2-to-4 Years Old, Toyota Garners 11 of Top 16, General Motors - 16 of Bottom 40 |
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August 2005: 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 |
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August 2005: For Vehicles 4-to-6 Years Old, Toyota Garners 6 of Top 10, General Motors Garners 15 of Bottom 38 |
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August 2005: 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 |
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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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July 2005: Subaru, Honda, and Toyota Account for Consumer Reports' Top Three Small SUVs |
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June 2005: Ford and Mazda Dominate High Rollover Risk Pickups and General Motors Dominates High Rollover Risk SUVs, per NHTSA |
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June 2005: GM's 1999-2005 Pontiac Grand Am Receives Lowest Frontal Crash Test Score |
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June 2005: GM Expands 2005 Safety Problem Recall Lead over Ford with Recall of 292,000 Saturns; Mitsubishi Adds a Tad to Its 2005 Recall List |
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May 2005: In NHTSA Car Crash Tests, Lowest Score Goes to Chevrolet Cobalt, Lowest Two Scores to Buick LaCrosse, Perfect Scores to Toyota, Mitsubishi, Subaru, and Two Volvos |
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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: GM Expands Recall Lead Over Ford: 300,000 2003-2004 General Motors SUVs to Be Recalled |
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May 2005: General Motors Vehicles Hit with Another Safety Investigation: NHTSA to Investigate 1.3 Million GM Pickup Trucks and SUVs for Corroding Brake Part |
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April 2005: King of Recalls Recalls Again: General Motors Leaps Past Ford with Recall of 2 Million Vehicles, Including 1.5 Million 2003-2005 SUVs and Pickups |
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April 2005: After 13,000 Consumer Complaints and Warranty Claims and 83 Reported Injuries, NHTSA Ratchets Up Investigation into Collapsing Tailgates of Another 3.1 Million GM Pickups |
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April 2005:
Toyota Sienna and Honda Odyssey Minivans Score Best on IIHS 2005 Crash Tests, Receive "Best Pick Frontal" Designation; GM's Chevrolet Astro, GMC Safari, Pontiac TransSport / Montana, and Chevrolet Venture Score Worst |
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April 2005:
General Motors Models Dominate Flop Survey |
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April 2005:
Part of GM's Repair Kit - A Very Bloodied Ax |
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April 2005:
General Motors' Dominion - Down & Under |
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March 2005:
Toyota Corolla with Side Airbags Earns Best Small Car Side-Impact Test Scores, Dodge Neon Earns Worst Side-Impact Test Scores |
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March 2005:
General Motors Chevrolet Astro and GMC Safari Minivans Get Lowest Test Score, Ford's E-150 Gets Lowest Rollover Score, GM Issues Recall of Chevrolet Uplander, Saturn Relay, and Pontiac Montana Minivans |
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March 2005:
General Motors 2005 Safety Recalls Take Another Bump Up |
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March 2005:
General Motors Dominates List of Models with Highest Death Rates |
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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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February 2005:
General Motors 2005 Safety Recalls Take a Bump Up, but Ford Keeps Big Lead: Faulty Power Assist, Accelerator Pedal Spring, and Windshield Bond Prompt Recalls of GM SUVs, Vans, Pickups, Trucks, Coupes, and Sedans |
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January 2005:
General Motors Starts Year with a Bang: 98,221 Chevrolet and GMC Trucks Are Recalled for Safety Problem |
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December 2004:
General Motors U.S. Safety Recalls, Already Gargantuan, Grow a Chunk: 717,000 Minivans Add to GM 2004 Total |
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December 2004:
Fracturing Steering Knuckle and Separating Wheel Prompts NHTSA Safety Investigation of General Motors' Hummer H2 |
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December 2004:
GM Safety Recalls May Take Another Leap |
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November 2004:
Beware O'ware, Mr. Saturn Buyer: GM's Saturn Vue's Collapsing Left Rear Wheel: Did General Motors and NHTSA Strike a Sweet Deal? |
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November 2004:
General Motors Safety Recalls March On: Saturn Ions Add to Total |
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November 2004:
Toyota and Honda Dominate Most Reliable SUV List; General Motors and Ford Dominate Least Reliable SUV List |
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November 2004:
Toyota Dominates Top Five List; GM and Saab Subsidiary Garner Two of Bottom Five |
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November 2004:
GM Safety Recalls Take a Leap |
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November 2004:
Is General Motors Reliability History the Story of the Ugly, the Uglier, and the Ugliest? |
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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 |
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August 2004:
Chevrolet's Aveo Adds to General Motors' Heap of Safety Recalls |
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August 2004:
General Motors Safety Recalls Keep Rolling On |
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July 2004:
General Motors' Recalls Remain Gargantuan in First Half of 2004 |
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May 2004:
General Motors Quality Drops Again |
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May 2004:
Reliability of Ford Pickups Continues to Rise: Ford Pickup Reliability Vis-à-Vis That of GM Pickups Continues to Grow, But Remains in the Trenches Relative to Toyota's |
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May 2004:
Toyota's Reliability Continues to Advance: Gap with Big Three Grows |
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April 2004:
General Motors 2004 Recalls Continue to Mount: Is GM Quality Dropping Like a Rock? |
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March 2004:
Prompted by a Growing Number of Injuries and an Intensified U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Investigation, General Motors Recalls 4 Million Pickups |
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March 2004:
Toyota Dominates List of Best Cars and Trucks; General Motors Dominates List of Worst Cars and Trucks |
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March 2004:
General Motors' U.S. 2003 Recall Numbers: A Bottomless Pit and a GM Defense? |
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February 2004:
GM's Quality Problems Keep Rolling Out: U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Ratchets Up Investigation into General Motors' Collapsing Tailgates |
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January 2004:
Do General Motors' Pickup Trucks and SUVs Make a Grotesque Noise? |
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November 2003:
Toyota Dominates "Best Used Cars" List; Chrysler and General Motors Dominate "Worst Used Cars" List |
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October 2003:
Honda CR-V Places First in SUVs - First among All Autos, per the 1995-1999 Reliability Percentrank Average |
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October 2003:
Nissan Maxima Places Second among Family Car Models per the 1995-1999 Reliability Percentrank Average |
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July 2003:
Does GM's Cadillac Division Think that the Market for the Worst of the Worst is Boundless? |
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July 2003:
Has General Motors Relative Auto Reliability Drop Hit Bottom, or Is It on to Deeper Trenches? |
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June 2003:
Is General Motors' Journey Around a Corner and Off a Cliff? |
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February 2003:
In CAA's List of Top Ten Vehicle Models, General Motors Scores Zero; Ford and Chrysler Match GM; Toyota Models Number Seven |
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December 2002:
Consumer Reports' 2003 Buying Guide Seems to Say: It's Okay to Buy Some General Motors Vehicles New, But in the Main, Rotate 'Em, Lickety-Split, or So |
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December 2002:
Toyota Dominates AOI's List of Auto Manufacturer Awards and Honors; Honda Places Second; GM, Ford, and Chrysler Score Zero |
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November 2002:
Where the Cad Goes, the Benz Follows |
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November 2002:
Is General Motors' Cadillac Division Trying to Make the Worst Cars on Planet Earth? |
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October
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The Ford Taurus Squeaks out of the Bottom Ten; The Pontiac Grand Am Stays Stuck; The Dodge Intrepid Garners the Worst Reliability Index Value for 1994-1995 |
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April
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By AOI's Recently Completed Auto Reliability Research for the Model Decade 1988 to 1997; Toyota Was the Guiding Star; Honda - A Falling Star; Subaru - the Rising Star; Nissan - Another Falling Star; Volvo, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Mitsubishi - Well Shattered Meteorites; and Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, and Volkswagen - Well Buried Rocks from Times Past |
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April
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How Low Can the Cad Go? General Motors' Cadillac Line, Already in a Subterranean Trench, Falls into a Crevice |
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April
2001:
The Reliability Index Gap between Toyota and the Big Three Remains Unchanged: Seven Years of -.6 |
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The Big Three - and divisions, subsidiaries, and siblings - and Volkswagen are in red. Affiliates of the Big Three are not. |
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Note: In deciding whether the
contents of an article covering an automotive deficiency reflects a
demerit to an auto manufacturer, the general rule is that the auto
manufacturer's products must have made a significant contribution to
the items with the shortcoming. Generally, this means that the
manufacturer's products must have constituted 2% or more of the
faulted items. For example, nearly all auto
manufacturers contributed at least one model-year to Consumer
Reports' 2005 list of Used-Cars-To-Avoid; however, the article "General Motors and Chrysler Dominate Consumer Reports Used-Cars-To-Avoid List"
is listed under only those manufacturers that contributed 2% or more
to the list. Consequently, in the purchase of a new or used vehicle,
the above list may be useful for weeding out manufacturers or
products; however, review of it and underlying articles constitute
only a first step. |
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