Skip to footer

Tesla Model S, Corvette top list of vehicles owners would buy again

Tesla Model S and Chevy Corvette got high marks on Consumer Reports' annual ownership-satisfaction survey. Among mainstream brands, Subaru was ranked highest, while Buick, Hyundai Kia, Nissan, and Mitsubishi were the least likely to have repeat buyers.

|
Alan Vanderkaay/General Motors/AP/File
The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. Along with the Tesla Model S, the Corvette was the car that owners would most likely buy a second time, according to a recent Consumer Reports survey.
  • By Bengt Halvorson The Car Connection

Owners of the Tesla Model S, more than owners of any other model, would buy it all over again.

In all, 98 percent of those owning the Model S electric car said that they’d purchase it again. The next highest, with owners that bullish, was the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, for which 95 percent said they’d do it all over again.

The results are from Consumer Reports’ annual ownership-satisfaction survey, which is based on voluntary responses and feedback from about 350,000 vehicles, all one to three years old.

Tesla has a long lead over every other brand, and it’s the second year that Tesla has taken the top spot. Its average score was 98, while Porsche was next closest, at 87, and Audi, Mercedes-Benz, and Lexus trailed for the top five, with ratings all below 80. The BMW 328d and Chevrolet Volt were also among the top performers, among all models, in satisfaction.

Among mainstream brands, Subaru was ranked highest, while Buick, Hyundai, Kia, Nissan, and Mitsubishi were the least satisfying.

The diesel-powered versions of the Ford F-250 and F-350 won out among trucks, while the Odyssey was rated at the top among minivans. V-8 versions of the Dodge Charger charmed their owners, apparently, as did the Fiat 500, Audi S5, Chevrolet Corvette, and Mazda 3 and 6.

Meanwhile, the Mercedes-Benz E-Class triumphed, whether looking at thesedan version or the wagon. And among crossovers, the Subaru Forester, Audi Q5 TDI, Toyota Highlander V-6 and Porsche Cayenne won their segments.

Head over to Consumer Reports for more about the survey, or stay right here to catch full reviews on nearly every model discussed.

You've read  of  free articles. Subscribe to continue.
Real news can be honest, hopeful, credible, constructive.
What is the Monitor difference? Tackling the tough headlines – with humanity. Listening to sources – with respect. Seeing the story that others are missing by reporting what so often gets overlooked: the values that connect us. That’s Monitor reporting – news that changes how you see the world.
editor@csmonitor.com
Subscribe
Mark Sappenfield
Editor

Dear Reader,

About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:

“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.

But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.

We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”

If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to CSMonitor.com.

Subscribe to insightful journalism

QR Code to Tesla Model S, Corvette top list of vehicles owners would buy again
Read this article in
https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/In-Gear/2014/1208/Tesla-Model-S-Corvette-top-list-of-vehicles-owners-would-buy-again
QR Code to Subscription page
Start your subscription today
https://www.csmonitor.com/subscribe