Car Brands Ranked From Most To Least Satisfying To Own In 2024, According To Consumer Reports

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Word of mouth can be a powerful marketing tool. If your customers love your product, they’re going to tell other people. Unfortunately for brands that sell sub-par products, if your customers hate what they bought, they’ll share that with other people, as well.

That doesn’t always mean the best-reviewed car is going to have the highest level of owner satisfaction. Sometimes, a car with a few notable shortcomings ends up satisfying its owners because it was honest about what it was and did an excellent job of meeting customer expectations.

So which automakers offer a lineup of cars that are the most satisfying to own, and which ones are the most disappointing? Our friends at Consumer Reports recently released the results of their annual ownership satisfaction survey. If they didn’t get enough responses for a particular brand (such as Aston Martin or Ferrari), it got left out.

In the end, Consumer Reports had enough data to rank 29 brands on ownership satisfaction. Now let’s see how your favorite brand performed.