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Below are links to pages with tables and charts providing the historical and recent Quality Grades and U.S. new car market shares and light vehicle market shares of car and truck brands beginning with the letters P – S. The overall Quality Grades (GQs) of these brands are given below as well.

Plymouth, with a GQ of Worst,
Pontiac, with a GQ of Worst,
Porsche, with no GQ,
Saab, with a GQ of Worse,
Saturn, with a GQ of Poor,
Scion, with a GQ of Good,
Subaru, with a GQ of Poor,
Suzuki, with a GQ of Better.

Possible Quality Grades, from best to worst, are: Excellent, Better, Good, Middling, Poor, Worse, and Worst. On the Quality Grade spectrum, Toyota has the best record and Chevrolet has the worst record.

This page was created in November of 2012.

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Additional Resources

More detail on brand Quality Grades is given in the Kindle ebook entitled AutoOnInfo.net's Car Quality Series, Volume 2: Brand Quality for Model Years 1985 to 2006 and Brand Market Shares from 1985 to 2009. Links to the Amazon page offering the book are given below.

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AutoOnInfo.net's Car Quality Series, Volume 2: Brand Quality for Model Years 1985 to 2006 and Effect on Brand Market Shares from 1985 to 2009

This volume of AutoOnInfo.net’s car guide series offers consumers and researchers an historical summary of the reliability and durability of car and truck brands and examines how these brands have fared in their U.S. market shares. It uses 6-year-old model entries in Consumer Reports’ Used Car to Avoid – also termed Vehicles to Avoid and Worst Cars, Year by Year – and CR’s reliability charts to ascribe quality grades to automobile brands for model-year groups 1985 to 1989, 1990 to 1994, 1995 to 1999, 2000 to 2004, 2005 to 2006, and 1985 to 2006. In addition to ascribing quality grades to each brand, it provides a chart that plots the number of the brand’s 6-year-old model entries in CR’s vehicles to avoid. To examine the effect that a brand’s reliability and durability has had on sales, two or more charts depicting the brand’s U.S. market shares for calendar years 1985 to 2009 are given. These grades and charts and the author’s comments impart an historical perspective that sheds light on the present condition of surviving vehicle lines and their future prospects, individual and institutional shortcomings, and what effect these may have on the U.S.

Also visit www.CarsOnInfo.net and www.CarQualityInfo.net for more car and truck quality charts, graphs, and information.