The best vehicles overall are being built by Honda and Subaru, according to our latest automaker report cards. But South Korean carmaker Hyundai, which includes Kia, has shown the most dramatic improvement, jumping to fourth place from ninth last year.
Like the top Japanese leaders, Hyundai/Kia makes mostly well-rounded cars that excel in many areas, getting high scores in our road tests and at least average reliability Ratings.
Among American manufacturers, only Ford improved over last year. It scored one point better to pass Mitsubishi for 11th place in our rankings. By contrast, Chrysler is again in last place and dropped two points since last year.And General Motors placed right where it did last year—second from the bottom—even though it eliminated half its brands and about one-third of its models.
The final report-card grades are based on an average composite of road-test and predicted-reliability scores from each automotive manufacturer. We also note the percentage of each automaker's vehicles we've evaluated that earn our recommendation by performing well in our battery of more than 50 tests, having at least average reliability and adequate performance in crash tests, if tested.
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