The Cadillac brand has lowered in the most recent, annual Consumer Reports Reliability Rankings, representing decreased reliability across the luxury marque’s lineup.
In the yearly report, Cadillac fell five spots to place 17th. This ranks Caddy closer to the bottom of the list among 24 vehicle brands.
Of all of the GM brands, Cadillac ranked on the better half. Only Buick scored higher, sitting in 11th place. Meanwhile, Chevy dived from 10th to 20th place, and GMC slipped from 18th to 21st place.
The Consumer Reports (CR) reliability score is calculated on a 0-to-100-point scale, with an average score falling between 41 and 60 points. CR found that domestic brands ranked lower in reliability compared to their foreign competitors, with an average score of 40. For comparison, Asian and European brands were graded with average scores of 59 and 51, respectively.
The rankings include four categories of vehicles (average predicted reliability score in parenthesis):
- Cars (58)
- SUVs (51)
- Minivans (44)
- Pickups (39)
Sedans, hatchbacks, and coupes make up the cars category, which is the most reliable category in the survey with an average predicted reliability score of 58. It’s followed by SUVs at 51, then minivans at 44. Pickups are the least reliable category with an average score of 39.
That said, domestic automakers buck this trend, with their SUVs and pickups, scoring 45 and 41, respectively, proving more reliable than their cars, which scored 38.
As far as electrified vehicles go, hybrids and plug-ins are the most reliable, posting a score of 78. As a whole, fully electric vehicles rank as the second least reliable sector, behind full-size pickups.
To obtain all this information, CR surveyed members about problems they’ve had with their vehicles in the last 12 months. For the 2022 report, data was gathered on more than 300,000 vehicles, from 2000 to even a few 2023 model year. This data addressed 17 problem areas, including engine, transmission and electronics. Using this information, CR then gave reliability ratings for every mainstream model. For an automaker to be ranked, sufficient survey data for two or more models must be submitted.
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But, Mary is the greatest CEO in the world. How could that happen?
Consumer Reports is a baised rag, I wouldn’t buy a toenail recommend by them.
I hear Cadillac non-owners say it doesn’t have to be a Cadillac, however, owners say it has got to be a Cadillac.
And Cadillac is planning on bringing a “$300,000” EV to market? Uh, I don’t think that’s a great idea until they’ve brought up their Quality Index number to the level of a Kia or a Honda…maybe even up to Toyota! I know that’s a stretch for GM, but come on guys, a 300 Grand Caddy, really? I can agree with some who are “in the know”…get rid of “Queen Mary” Barra and you’ll see the QI number go up and eventually you’ll see GM return to it’s rightful place in the automotive world.
One more thing…if GM is truly planning on going fully EV in the future, I’ll wish them Good Luck, they’re going to need it!
Mother Toyota is not buying to this “bad move”…the world will be needing petrol powered vehicles for many years to come, and I believe that if you keep progressing with these “ICE” powered vehicles that you can come pretty close to producing an ultra low emissions vehicle, especially with Natural Gas, it can be done, you just hide and watch what Toyota does in the future, they didn’t become the worlds largest auto manufacture by making a “Queen” as head of their industry, instead they’ve kept ahead of everyone else…no political games, just continuous improvements since “Day One” and it has worked beautifully, as GM dropped out of the #1 auto manufacture some years ago, and why did this happen?
Lousy management, attempts at political gains…and of course a “Bankruptcy” never inspires confidence in your product nor does it increase your market shares….poor management will bring you down every time no matter how good you try to make your product, if the CEO and the Top Brass of the company are all politically motivated, they’ on keep building vehicles and products that are “just good enough”. GM expects to catch Tesla in the very near future, good luck with that, in truth GM will maintain it’s mediocre sales and performance levels because it’s CEO ect. is mediocre at best, and because she surrounds herself with politically motivated people (GM’s mantra: We Build Products That Are Just Good Enough) instead of actually attempting to keep up with (and to never to over take Toyota, and Volkswagen) the Asian manufactures GM will remain a “Mediocre” auto manufacture producing a few vehicles that have excelled (the C8 is a good example) in the business…but not without it’s share of production problems too! Another fiasco for GM, the “Bad Press” GM has received over the years far exceeds it’s “Good Press”….and so GM seems content with maintaining it’s Status Quo as it will attempt to go fully EV….bad move GM, you’re not looking into the future far enough, fully EV can’t work for everyone, while Tesla has pretty much set the bar in the industry, and some will attempt to raise that bar, GM will not be able to do much except attempt try and “keep up” by producing a few EV’s that’ll be in a competitive world that’ll be flooding the market place, vehicles produced from all over the world will also be available to the US consumer. Good Luck, GM, you’re going to need all the “Luck” you can muster, and the “Luck” will start when you dump “Queen Mary” and put someone in charge that can “kick ass and take names” in a very competitive industry. Okay, ’nuff said, let the Nay Sayers have their day.
Like most US govt. cabinet members and governmental dept heads, GM’s current CEO is strictly an affirmative action hire.
consumer reports should stick to rating appliances, past experience has shown that regarding cars their opinion is not very good
I believe the vehicle ranking from Consumer Reports. Hell, I just read this morning that there are adhesion issues with the CT5 and Arcadia. I know for a fact that my transmission fluid was two quarts low when I picked up my C8 Corvette and I have to pay Chevrolet $600 for them to fill the transmission up, they won’t cover it under warranty.
I like Chevrolet, but they need to fire that worthless CEO and start making quality 1st priority period……. To hell with electric vehicles when you cannot even score in the top 5 with any of the vehicles produced under the GM umbrella.
How freaking embarrassing…….
Discontinued CR years ago—- worthless