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Cadillac Eldorado
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
The Best Cars of 1988
For those consumers in the market for an older car, I list the 10 and 20 most reliable and durable cars of model year 1988. I use the Car Reliability Percentrank (RP) for 6-to-8-year-old vehicles as the joint measure of reliability and durability. As the name of the measure suggests, the Reliability Percentrank measure has a scale of 0 to 1, with 1 being the highest possible score.
The ten best cars of 1988 by the Percentrank measure of reliability and durability are:
- The 2-wheel-drive Toyota Pickup (predecessor of the Tacoma), with a 1988 Car Reliability Percentrank of 1.00,
- Honda Motor Company’s Acura Legend, with a RP of 1.00,
- The Toyota Corolla, with a RP of 0.98,
- The Toyota Pickup, with a RP of 0.98,
- The Honda Accord, with a RP of 0.98,
- The Nissan Maxima, with a RP of 0.97,
- The 4-cylinder Toyota Camry, with a RP of 0.96,
- The Toyota Celica, with a RP of 0.94,
- The Mazda 323, with a RP of 0.94,
- The Mazda 929, with a RP of 0.94.
Of these 10 most reliable and durable automobiles, Toyota Motor Corporation accounts for 5, Honda Motor Company and Mazda Motor Corporation each account for 2, and Nissan Motor Company accounts for one.
The next 10 best cars of 1988 by the Reliability Percentrank are:
- The Volvo 240 Series, with a 1988 Car Reliability Percentrank of 0.93,
- The Toyota Camry, with a RP of 0.92,
- The Nissan Pathfinder, with a RP of 0.92,
- The V6 Nissan Pathfinder, with a RP of 0.92,
- The Cadillac Eldorado, with a RP of 0.92,
- The Honda Prelude, with a RP of 0.89,
- The 4-cylinder Mazda 626, with a RP of 0.89,
- The Mazda MX-6, with a RP of 0.89,
- The Mercedes-Benz S-Class, with a RP of 0.89,
- The Cadillac Seville, with a RP of 0.89.
It should be noted that the Reliability Percentrank of the Cadillac Eldorado had fallen to 0.19 by 1992, and that the Reliability Percentrank of the Cadillac Seville had fallen to 0.41 by 1992 and 0.16 by 1994. No other model had fallen below 0.60 by 1992; however, the Nissan Pathfinder and the 4-cylinder Mazda 626 had fallen below 0.80 – 0.79 and 0.63, respectively.
Of these next ten most reliable and durable automobiles, Nissan, Mazda, and General Motors Corporation each account for 2 and Toyota, Honda, Volvo AB, and Daimler-Benz AG each account for one.
About the Author
James Benjamin Bleeker has a B.A. from Carleton College in mathematics, a J.D. from Northwestern University, and an M.S. from the University of Minnesota in mathematics. He has practiced law, and taught Introductory Statistics, Calculus III, Business Calculus, Finite Math, College Algebra, Introductory and Intermediate Algebra and Foundations at various universities and colleges. He currently has two websites – Auto on Info at http://www.AutoOnInfo.net and Cars on Info at http://CarsOnInfo.net – which provide detailed auto quality information for cars and trucks sold in North America. For much of the 2000s, AutoOnInfo.net has been the dominant provider of auto reliability and durability information, some of it gathered from its own online surveys and questionnaires and some from the reliability studies of the Consumer Union and the CAA.
In January of 2002, AutoOnInfo.net received the Open Directory’s Cool Site award for its data-rich tables and graphs. It is the only automobile website to have received the Open Directory award.
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