Chrysler falling further behind GM and Ford in quality survey

David Champion, the senior director for the magazine’s auto testing operation, said that unlike Chrysler, GM and Ford are slowly picking up from where they left off, although he stresses that there’s still a long way to go before both companies return to their past glory days.

On Ford: “Ford Motor Co.’s quality has been getting better and better. The company is extremely close to Honda and Toyota in reliability. All it needs is to make its models ‘a little more exciting’”.

On GM: “ General Motors Corp. has a very good model portfolio. Its trucks are good. The (Cadillac) CTS is good, in test results, although, as a whole, GM still is hit or miss on reliability.”

Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for Chrysler, which needs a lot of heavy lifting to do before it can catch up with GM and Ford.

It is a shame that these hard economic times affect the way that the automakers do business, in tight markets performance and luxury are sacrificed for efficiency, but now that at least two of the big three are getting back on track we can expect to see some very cool cars coming in the near future.