Ford "most reliable": Consumer Reports

by Ishita Sood - October 28, 2009 - 1 comments

<strong>New York, October 28 --</strong> According to the Consumer Reports survey 2010, Ford Motors makes the most reliable cars in America, even outshining all its Japanese competitors.

Ford beats competitors to become the most reliable car, says Consumer Reports

New York, October 28 -- According to the Consumer Reports survey 2010, Ford Motors makes the most reliable cars in America, even outshining all its Japanese competitors.

The Ford Fusion was rated higher in reliability this year than its counterparts- Honda Accord and Toyota Camry. The only car in the family sedan category with better ratings compared to Fusion was the Toyota Prius, the magazine said yesterday.

“It’s rare for Consumer Reports to see family sedans from domestic carmakers continue to beat the reliability scores of such highly regarded Japanese models,” David Champion, senior director of the Yonkers, New York based magazine’s Automotive Test Center, said in a statement.

World class production
Ford’s reliability will translate into future gains as it will help the company capture a greater part of the market share. Ford’s cars earned average or above ratings on 90 percent of its models
"Ford does produce more world-class vehicles" said Jake Fisher, senior automotive engineer for Consumer Reports.

"These results from such a highly respected and credible source of information for consumers confirms that Ford not only has raised initial quality to industry-leading levels, but also is delivering the excellent long-term reliability that is critical to winning new customers and retaining existing ones," said Bennie Fowler, Ford group vice president of global quality.

Through September, Ford accounted for 15.8 percent of U.S. sales, a gain of 1 percentage point from a year earlier, according to Woodcliff Lake, N.J.-based Autodata Corp.

GM and Chrysler
Chrysler which was bailed out very recently by the Federal Government did not do well and was still “continuing to struggle”, according to the magazine survey. It was the biggest loser of the year since its brands Lexus GS, Nissan Versa and Subaru WRX were labelled unreliable. Only the new Ram 1500 4wd was recommended by the magazine.

GM, too, which was saved by the Feds, saw a bad review. Its new products, Chevrolet Malibu with a V6 engine and Chevrolet Traverse, were the only ones to do well in the survey. Overall, 28 of the 48 GM models included in the survey had below average rankings.

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Ford also does well in other surveys

Submitted by Michael Karesh (not verified) on Wed, 10/28/2009 - 13:27. *

Ford also does well in TrueDelta's Car Reliability Survey. But how large are the differences, really?

Unlike CR, TrueDelta provides actual repair frequencies, not just dots, so the (often small) size of the differences in reliability is much clearer. TrueDelta also updates four times a year, to closely track cars as they age. These results are, on average, over nine months ahead of CR's.

These reliability stats, which you don't have to buy a membership to view, can be found here:

http://www.truedelta.com/car-reliability.php