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"Consumer Reports' first-ever brand ranking for used cars - focused on the reliability of 5- to 10-year-old models - makes it clear that buyers can reduce their risks of experiencing problems by ...
The compact SUV Suzuki Samurai gained a reputation in the U.S. market of being an unsafe car and prone to a rollover after Consumer Reports, the magazine arm of Consumers Union, reported that during a 1988 test on the short course avoidance maneuver (Consumer Union Short Course Double Lane Change, or CUSC for short), the Samurai experienced what they deemed as an unacceptable amount of tipover ...
[80] Popular Mechanics included the Oldsmobile diesels in a series on "The Top Automotive Engineering Failures", saying: "Of the myriad engineering failures from the reckless period at the end of the 1970s and the dawn of the '80s, the one with perhaps the longest-reaching effect on consumer preference was the unrelenting awfulness of the ...
Became the first electric vehicle to be the world's bestselling car in 2023. [109] Full-size car: 1958 Chevrolet Impala. Chevrolet Impala: 1958–1985 1994–1996 2000–2020 Over 13,000,000 between its introduction and 1996. [55] The bestselling car in America in a single year, with 1,046,514 sold in 1965 including the Impala SS. [53] Hybrid ...
Consumer Reports (CR) named BMW the top overall pick in its 2024 Brand Report Card rankings, with the German automaker becoming the first back-to-back winner since 2017.
The summary chart includes the five largest worldwide automotive manufacturing groups as of 2017 by number of vehicles produced. Those same groups held the top 5 positions 2007 to 2019; Hyundai Motor Group had a lower rank until it took the fifth spot in 2007 from the at that time split German-American auto manufacturer DaimlerChrysler, while Ford became surpassed by Honda in 2020, and even ...
Car and Driver 10Best is a list annually produced by Car and Driver (C/D) beginning in 1983, [1] nominating what it considers the 10 best cars of the year. C/D also produced the 5Best list, highlighting what it considers the five best trucks of the year. All production vehicles for sale in that calendar year are considered with these recent ...
Why Hyundai and Kia cars are top targets By the first half of 2023, thefts of older Hyundai and Kia models had increased by 1,000% since 2020 , according to a report by the Highway Loss Data ...