General Motors’ mass-market brand Chevrolet ranked near the bottom of the pack in a recent Consumer Reports analysis of major active automotive brands.
Consumer Reports this week published a ranking of vehicle brands from best to worst, which was based on an overall score that it assigned to each brand. This overall score was based on the publication’s own road test scores for a brand’s various vehicles, along with predicted reliability as well as owner satisfaction based on responses from past owner surveys. A vehicle’s safety score from institutions like the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety was also taken into account when assigning brand scores. Additionally, a separate “Green” score was applied to brands based on the number of eco-friendly vehicles it offers.
Chevrolet received an overall score of 60 out of a possible 100 points in this study, as the Bow Tie Brand was docked points for its less-than-adequate predicted reliability and average owner satisfaction. The automaker had an admirable average road test score of 75, suggesting Consumer Reports editors enjoyed driving most Chevrolet products, yet it only recommends four current Chevrolet vehicles despite having tested 15 different models. It has three “Green Choice” vehicles in its lineup, including the battery-electric Bolt EV and Bolt EUV, which netted it some additional points, although this performance was only good enough for 26th overall in the brand ranking – even with its performance from last year.
Model | Overall Score | Recommended | Green Choice |
---|---|---|---|
Blazer | 82 | Yes | - |
Bolt EV | 62 | - | Yes |
Bolt EUV | 65 | - | Yes |
Camaro | 62 | - | - |
Colorado | 45 | - | - |
Corvette | 57 | - | - |
Equinox | 74 | Yes | - |
Express | Not tested | - | - |
Malibu | 55 | - | Yes |
Silverado 1500 Limited | 46 | - | - |
Silverado 2500HD | Not tested | - | - |
Silverado 3500HD | Not tested | - | - |
Spark | 47 | - | - |
Suburban | 41 | - | - |
Tahoe | 39 | - | - |
Trailblazer | 76 | Yes | - |
Traverse | 83 | Yes | - |
Trax | 61 | - | - |
Chevrolet vehicles that Consumer Reports suggests its readers buy include the Trailblazer, Blazer, Equinox and Traverse crossovers, while its “Green” picks include the Bolt EV, Bolt EUV and Chevy Malibu. The only Chevy vehicles that CR did not test recently were the Silverado 2500HD and 3500HD as well as the Express. The lowest-ranked Chevy product was the Tahoe with a score of 39, while the Suburban was just barely ahead at 41. The Chevy Colorado and Silverado 1500 also showed room for improvement with scores of 45 and 46, respectively.
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We got into this business because we love cars. We love performance. Many of us have Corvettes and Camaros siting at home.
But for you our readers we are recommending Camrys and Accords because we feel you are too ignorant to appreciate a truly great car.
You sound like a hater because they got ranked low
If I have to explain, you wouldn’t understand.
Stay mad and keep hating
Camrys and Accords, seriously?, both Kia and Hyundai have pretty much leveled up with both of those brands at this point and I find the Hyundai Genesis to be better than both of those cars.
Hyundais and KIAs are made of thin metal and they tend to quickly rust out. Also Consumer reports doesn’t count repairs done under warranty or recalls against brands. Hyundai & would be perpetual bottom feeders If they did.
In most Asian and European countries people have realized the brands are sh!t and sales are falling fast.
In the USA, H/Ks brand loyalty is very low, and fleet sales are very high. As soon as the Chinese brands get here, H/K will be dead in the water.
Yeah sure, great cars are reliable and rank higher, keep hitting the bong and think of more stupid things to say.
A leading “consumer reporting” magazine has all but gave the Colorado a “do not buy” rating in the past. GM’s made many mistakes. The biggest, doing away with the “bread & butter” vehicles that may not show up doing great things , but make up the back bone of their business. When GM made the decision to do away with the Reg Cab, Short Box truck, so went away the Astro/Safari Vans that were great for large an small business, I now I had the pleasure of owning 6 over time, two family wagons, 4 work vans … and it ended ever seeing a 2-Door K5 Blazer. I also owned 3 of the great Cutlass Oldsmobiles … also gone , and another topic for later. The world doesn’t rotate around sports cars and suvs … GM, Ford, an What used to be Chrysler needs to come to grips with it. I grew up in the 1960s … we had the best cars an trucks, the best music, and best lifestyle …. anyone 40 years old or less … you don’t fully grasp what you never knew, and should be mad about that … not the competition beating you … and we drive Fords today because GM did away with what we needed, and DID NOT EVER over anything close to matching our needs.
Amen! GM has made many dire mistakes. Making Roger B. Smith CEO, started the downfall. Smith was a “bean counter”, not a car guy. As a bean counter, and not a man of manufacturing knowledge, did not understand the efficiencies of volume. Yup, bread and butter cars.
Srew Consumers Reports. They are biased
Maybe they are, maybe they aren’t. But Consumer Reports aren’t the only “monitoring magazines” out there for one to read. Just looking at the recall data in the “net” constantly shows problems from any manufacturer. GM’s list of dumb moves is long. GM dropped one of it’s oldest, best, and most profitable brands Oldsmobile. And Cadillac, Cadillac was never a performance brand. That was the fight between Pontiac an Chevrolet. As one whose been around cars since the 1960’s … Pontiac won it hands down. The Chevrolet offerings were too great vehicles … but when you talk GM Performance … Pontiac Trans Am mid 60’s to mid 80’s… was affordable, easy to maintain. And the EV revolution, will not be the winner “all” involved will want it to be.
See the CR story thread as this was already covered.
I’m sure they are planning a Cadillac and Buick article as well.
trickle down journalism.
Headline mentions Subaru ranked highest and they don’t have any trucks in lineup. Wagons, sedans, coupes and hatchbacks. AWD must make them desirable?
Aren’t AWD crossovers all anyone really wants anymore?
Assuming they are reliable, I can see how Subaru would do pretty good.
Subaru has it’s share of troubles, their normally trouble free “Boxster” engine has gone become nothing but trouble. Not what it used to be.
Consumer Reports is a garbage rag catering to their consumer base. The majority of readers spending money on this rag buy different segment vehicles and this rag is like cheerleaders touting what they have parked in their driveway. Not too many so called North American Iron buyers buy this rag. It’s like standing inside the doors of your local Domino’s Pizza asking those on their way out the door what their favourite pizza brand is. Of course they’ll say Domino’s. Surveying your customer base does not give you a true unbiased perspective. That’s why I can’t stand this rag.
That “Rag” gets it right about 99% of the time, and the “net” with a few key strokes shows more then they do both good and bad. All you have to do is ask about “recalls” and consumer/owner stories from reliable sources like Car Fax, Kelly, among others.
lmao consumer reports… they’re a joke. Whatever they preach, by the opposite… like Chevrolet.
You need to read a few more publications … did you now that GM isn’t an American owned company anymore? Let that sink in … SAIC, Shangi Automotive Industry Corporation owns as of last month 51% of GM … and very likely that number will increase. SAIC wants battery cars, that explains why GM ‘s Cadillac will be EV only by the end of the decade … among other decisions we couldn’t figure out why they made. Before you respond with a you’re wrong reply … do the homework, watch the SAIC video out there, the one you want to see has a Trojan Horse caption photo on youtube. First Chrysler, now GM owned by foreign companies.
Hey that’s factually incorrect just so you know. GM sold 50% of its smaller Asian subsidiary called GM Shanghai to SAIC, not the whole company. The whole company remains safely in American hands.
The key word here is “Consumer” Reports, not “Car Person” Reports. You get what you pay for. I can’t wait for my Corvette to be built (it’s been almost a year), guess that puts me in the “Car Person” category rather than the consumer category. Barry
Hope you get it, if SAIC decides in your favor you will. GM isn’t a US owned company anymore. A Chinese company called SAIC (Shangi Automotive Industrial Corp) owns the controlling interest of GM. Mary can’t go to the bathroom until given permission.
GM sold half of GM Shanghai to SAIC, not the whole company just so you know.
No SAIC owns 51% and more importantly 100% of all GM intellectual properties … that make SAIC the majority owner. I neither pro or con GM, but this reality of GM’s controlling faction stands. Around 6 years ago William Clay Ford (Ford Mo/Co) started buying up all the outstanding stock to keep sometihng just like this from happening to them.
Nah this is public record, you’re wrong about this.
You can look it up yourself. The biggest single block of control of GM’s stock is Vanguard Group with a 6.7% stake or about 97 million shares.
sorry but they just print what their customers tell them. who fixes the results. they are the only magazine that can’t be paid off. there is a reason korean and japaneese cars have better resale. i only wish american cars were made as well.
Consumer Reports, like said above is rag. They are lower than biased. Always anti -GM and anti-American. I hate that so-called magazine. They have been at it for 40 years, trying to destroy American automotive products. And I don’t buy the notion that “they aren’t paid off” to push their foreign crap. No way will I believe that GM products aren’t better than Kia, Hyundai or a lot of other foreign junk.
Please read my comment above. It explains how cr gets their results, or more importantly their skewed results. I specifically refer you to my Domino’s Pizza survey. Non yuppy non starbucks sippin folks don’t read cr therefore they are never polled. Maybe had I said survey people driving out the door at a Honda dealership, and you will find EVERYONE loves Hondas. That is why cr polls mean absolutely nothing. It’s not a true representation of all vehicles bought. I’ve loved everyone of my GM vehicles. I will keep buying them as long as I need to buy another. Generally keep them for 8 to 11 years and sell them to their next happy owner. I’ve never completed one of those survey cards in the glovebox either. Nobody from cr has ever asked me my opinion. Don’t believe for one second cr has a clue what all people really like. Only their misguided readers.
CR hates anything made in America or even American owned. Their loyalty is 100% foreign. That’s why I hate CR.
Cr is a joke it cater,s to all the yuppies out there and there is plenty of those.
‘Ya know, you’d think that this sort of news might bother the “powers that be” in the GM hierarchy and they’d try to stop this sort of negativity crap from some automotive/truck ect. magazines by taking some of this negativity to heart and “FIX” what seems to be a continuing trend by GM to build all of it’s vehicles just “Good Enough” to satisfy the folks that run, say GM Truck Divisions (including GMC and Chevrolet) but for some reason that I can’t phantom…it also seems that GM has forsaken some of it’s best formally loyal customers and not gone “all out” to attack both Ford F-150 and Dodge Ram products.
This concerns me, when Chevy truck sales fall behind Dodge Ram, you’ve got to question “does anyone care at GM about this downward slide in sales”? Evidentially not…I don’t understand it, GM has some of the brightest and most advanced engineering folks in the business, but I honestly think that is where it stops…and the marketing “Goons” take over dictating what GM should do instead of letting the engineers have the helm producing a superior product.
But…my personal theory is that nothing “extra special” will ever happen when you’ve got a totally pathetic excuse for a CEO “Queen Mary Barra” at the helm. Think about it…since she’s entered the top GM hierarchy everything, except for maybe Corvette, has gone “downhill”! Don’t think so? Guess again! The GM EV segment of GM’s marketing has been a miserable failure, GM has “NOTHING” to compete in various segments of the EV marketplace at this time, a major mistake!
GM truck sales are abysmal falling behind Dodge Ram…GM has gotten out of the “compact sedan” market that Toyota and Honda seem to own, with Kia and Hyundai that seem to be serious contenders also.
Do the math…and you’ll see that GM is no longer the worlds largest auto maker, they gave that up to Toyota & Volkswagen, which has happened since “Queen Mary Barra” got sent to be GM “head honcho”!
This isn’t an attack on women CEO’s…they’re fully capable of running large corporations, except in the automotive industry where men seem to still run things, at least from the CEO’s perspective. Mary Barra plays a “good song” by saying all of the “right things” to it’s shareholders, but when it comes to actually running Mighty GM, she’s a complete failure and you can’t argue with failure after failure…it’s proof positive that GM needs someone in that position that can “kick ass and take names” in a very competitive marketplace and not settle for “third place” (truck sales) of “no place” in the EV segment!
Oh well…GM is a “creature of habit”…they’ll keep totally unqualified people in positions that need help the most, sort of like our government in Washington. Just like all politicians, once in “office” it’s almost impossible to get rid of those who fail continually at positions that they were elected to by individuals who obviously have no idea what they’re doing either!
Okay, ’nuff said….when GM starts to actually increase it’s market share and produce products that folks actually want and automotive magazine editors rave about, and folks actually keep repeat buying of that product then I’ll believe that someone has actually taken over GM that understands the importance of building superior products…”on every level and segment of the marketplace”! If there is perhaps one “bright ray of hope for GM”…it might be the amazing C8 Corvette, finally they’ve got it right, GM let the engineers run the show and the results speak for themselves, they can’t seem to make enough of these amazing vehicles…but then again, this is a very small segment of the marketplace so maybe whatever GM is doing right in this segment needs to filter down (up?) to other segments from light duty truck to EV’s. Just say’n.
FYI car guy, they aren’t dodge rams anymore and haven’t been for a long time.
Agreed, but the real reason GM has made the decisions they have is because they now have new owners … let that sink in. SAIC … Shanghi Automotive Industrial Corporation as of right now owns 51% of GM, and is calling the shots. Thanks to Brandon’s meddling that number is likely to increase. Chrysler is owned by “who know anymore” now GM is being eaten alive by the Chinese via SAIC. Oh well, there’s always Hyundai.
You got that wrong jsyk, GM sold half of their Asian subsidiary called GM Shanghai to SAIC. GM is still an American-owned company.
With the current thinking about out-sourcing parts and the supply chain all over the world especially to communist countries, it is hard to say if this is because Chevrolet and Ford can’t get parts to build their vehicles. For the past 10-15 years US Companies of all products have increasingly become foolishly beholden to foreign out-sourcing. They dig their own graves by not controlling their own supply lines , not to mention giving away their technology in the process. Idiots!
people who buy gm’s also fill out consumer report survey forms. it isn’t just yuppies. all kinds of americans read the magazine. we all want to but reliable products and save money. to say they are anti american because they don’t produce the results you want is rediculous. american cars used to own the market. they don’t anymore. as long as it’s just called prejudice nothing will change. just produce better cars than the rest of the world and people will buy them. look at tesla. number 1 everywhere. there is a reason consumer reports gets the results they do. american cars aren’t the best anymore. i am an american. i want them to be the best. it’s not for any other reason. it’s patriotic to make american built the best.