English: Chart of the 1995 Car Brand Quality Ratings by Overall Reliability

This rating of the car brands is an average of the reliability ratings of the brand's models. It provides a measure of how well a brand's models performed over the entire model-quality spectrum.

This brand quality measure is a simple average of the brand's reliability precentrank averages for model years 1988 to 1994. These may be found at http://carsoninfo.net/1988to1998CarReliabilityPercentrankAveragesForCarManufacturers.aspx .

The reliability percentrank averages are used, as Consumer Reports did not offer overall reliability ratings in its 1995 reliability charts.

For this measure of quality, the range is from 0 (the worst possible) to +1.0 (the best possible).

The quality ratings of the car brands by this set of computations are given in the bar graph above.

For a Google Knol that summarizes the changes in car brand and manufacturer ranking by this quality measure from 1990 to 2010, visit http://knol.google.com/k/james-bleeker/automobile-quality-by-car-brand-and/3o3u27f0whd6k/2?hd=ns# .