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The Toyota Motor Corp. Scion brand topped the list of most reliable cars in Consumer Reports' annual vehicle reliability rankings released Thursday that Asian automakers continued to crowd the top rankings of the magazine.
Meanwhile, Chrysler LLC vehicles saw their scores fell sharply compared to 2007, while the nameplates of Ford Motor Co gained ground on their rivals Detroit.
Scion has a portfolio of three fairly small, fairly well equipped vehicles, said David Champion Auto Test Center Consumer Reports is a basic form of transport, but well put together.
The survey responses compiled from Consumer Reports readers for more than 4 to 1 million vehicles this spring, using the results to predict reliability of 2009 models The results are closely watched by automakers because of their influence on car buyers.
In this study year, Acura and Honda Co Motor Honda lines ranked right behind Scion, followed by the Toyota plate and the luxury brand of Toyota, Asian Lexus names occupied all the top magazines 10 slots, with a car manufacturer home not on the list until No. 11 with Ford Motor Co Lincoln brand.
Champion noted that Ford nameplates have pulled ahead of their rivals in Detroit this year, with almost all Ford products carrying Average rating or better, with the exception of some of its truck-based vehicles In addition, the Ford sedan Focus has been greatly improved since its creation in 2000, Consumer Reports said, and the car was ranked No. 4 for the vehicles of the most reliable family.
Ford vehicles, particularly their vehicles car-based, have all been exceptionally good in terms of reliability year after year, said Champion.
Mark Fields Ford president of the Americas, said the rankings are further affirmation of the changes the company has made to improve its vehicles, particularly in drive quality, electrical function and quietness.
Be neck and neck with Toyota and Honda is satisfying for us, Fields said, but he added that enough ahead of General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC is not we have our eye squarely to become the leader in the industry.
Consumer Reports called GM cars a mixed bag, with bright spots being redesigned above-average Chevrolet Malibu Buick Lucerne V-8 and Pontiac G6 are also came in above average, but a quarter of GM models came in below the average.
Chrysler, on the other hand, grouped near the bottom of the rankings, with nearly two-thirds of the average range below the Chrysler Sebring was Consumer Reports evaluated worst car, reaching 283 percent below average.
Consumer Reports ranked predicted reliability of 2009 models based on survey results from previous years Here are two best and worst choice of the magazine for the predicted reliability in each segment.
Best Infinity M35 RWD Lexus IS250.
Worst Cadillac STS V-8 Mercedes-Benz E-Class V-8.
Worse Chrysler Town Country, Dodge Grand Caravan.
Worse Mercedes-Benz GL-Class V-8 Mercedes-Benz GL-Class turbodiesel.
Worse turbodiesel Ford F-250, Dodge Dakota four-wheel drive.
Scion other Japanese cars classified as best paris, scion, on the other hand, the cars.