For consumers, the stability and reliability of the car is the most basic demand, because the function of the car is to travel, if even this most basic requirement can not be met, even if the appearance is good-looking, the interior is luxurious is white.
Recently, J D POW ER, a global third-party evaluation agency, released the latest edition of the U.S. market automotive quality rankings. Although it is not oriented to our country, it is still informative. Next, let's take a look at the specific ranking of the list.
Usually about this quality reliability ranking, Lexus and Toyota will definitely occupy the top two places in the list, but this year's situation is different, the first place is not these two brands, but from the Korean car Kia, and in addition to the second place Buick, the top four in the Korean car accounted for three positions, the other two brands are Hyundai and Genisais, which is basically the same car company. For our people, it is really a bit confusing that Korean cars can be in the first echelon, after all, domestic Korean car sales are very worrying, and the status is seriously marginalized. However, in the North American market, hyundai Kia's Korean car sales are still very good. It can be seen that Korean cars have a certain undervalued component in China.
In second place is Buick from the General Motors Group, which ranked 5th in the 2021 selection and rose to second place this year. At the same time, Chevrolet and Cadillac, which belong to the same group, have also made great progress, even higher than Mazda and Mitsubishi Motors in the Japanese camp. In the past, we always ridiculed the poor quality of American cars and many small problems. However, from the current point of view, after several years of technical iterations, the situation of GM Group seems to have improved a lot.
Toyota and Lexus, which have always dominated the list, have fallen to the 5th and 6th positions, and Toyota, which uses quality and reliability as a selling point to attract users, also seems to have encountered problems. The last two years have seen more recalls around the world than in the past, which may have led to a decline in the rankings. After the large-scale replacement of the TNGA architecture of the entire Toyota series, the quality stability has dropped significantly, in fact, in the past, we have always been obsessed with toyota's stability, and the fundamental reason is that most of the products are mature technology, so the failure rate is generally relatively low.
The german camp ranks higher in Porsche, second only to Lexus, at no. 7 on the list. Porsche's quality has always been impressive in the luxury brand camp. Of course, the higher average selling price also allows car companies to have more budgets to conduct research in this area, after all, it is not spending money.
What is more disappointing is the BBA of the traditional luxury car three musketeers, only BMW is above the average line of the three brands, and it is only two rankings higher than the average line. Mercedes-Benz and Audi are below the average, which is somewhat unacceptable. As a luxury brand, the basic requirements of quality stability are not as good as car brands with more affordable prices, and it is impossible to say anything. Audi, in particular, is almost the bottom of the ranking, selling more expensive than volkswagen, but the quality is not as good as volkswagen.
Not only as a German, but also some of the brands that we are familiar with in Japan are also below average. For example, Nissan and Honda, their sales in China are very good, and behind the sales of Changhong is consumers' trust in their past quality. It's just that with the passage of time, these Japanese car companies have begun to show signs of regression, so there is no need for us to be too obsessed with the quality of Japanese brands when buying cars.
The last brand at the bottom is Land Rover, although there will be some changes in the ranking of the list every year, but Land Rover has always been the last in terms of quality reliability. It seems that the phrase "Land Rover that can't be repaired" is not empty, no wonder Land Rover's sales in China have been so sluggish.
In general, this year's list changes are still a bit big, I did not expect that the Korean system actually dominated the list, while the Japanese system, which has always been based on quality, has been overturned one after another. Of course, this is a list for the U.S. market, and there will be a slight difference in the domestic situation.