Marion Toyota Blog

Fortune Magazine recently revealed the 2013 list of the World's Most Admired Companies.  The Hay Group conducts the research for Fortune and ranks companies on categories such as social responsibility, people management, long- term investment, quality of products and services, and financial soundness. Toyota was ranked #1 among Motor Vehicle Companies and 29^th overall ……up from 33 rd the previous year

The April edition of Consumer Reports magazine will soon be on newsstands and have their annual rankings of their top vehicles for 2013.  The Toyota Prius is picked as the top green car for the 10th consecutive year. Prius has the best EPA fuel economy with a 44 overall MPG rating. 

U.S. News & World Report has published their Best Cars for the Money Awards for 2013. Winning best Compact Pickup was the Toyota Tacoma and winning best Full Size Pickup was the Toyota Tundra.

The Highly respected news publication U.S. News & World Report named the Scion FR-S The Best Sports Car for the Money.  The annual award recognizes quality, value, and critical acclaim in 21 different vehicles categories. 

 
Toyota was recently ranked number one in the 2013 Harris Poll Reputation Quotient (RQ) survey as the most highly regarded automaker and number 19th overall for all companies. 

The all new redesigned 2013 Toyota Avalon and Avalon Hybrid continues to rack up awards and accolades.  This time for scoring 5 Stars from NHTSA safety testing.
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For the fifth consecutive quarter Toyota is ranked number one in Kelley Blue Book's shopper loyalty ratings.  The latest rankings were released February 7^th, 2013 to the public. In the past several years Korean brands Kia and Hyundai have racked up much success but both have been dropping in shopper loyalty for several quarters because of an aging lineup of vehicles.

Marion Toyota would like to share some exciting news about the Scion FR-S.  Cars.com has announced during the International Auto Show in Detroit this week that the sporty new coupe has won the "Best of 2013" The Scion FR-S competed against all new and redesigned vehicles.  Some of the things Cars.com liked best about the FR-S were driving experience and affordability.

Cars.com is an online review and consumer information website.

The Toyota Camry and the Honda CR-V were named the top redesigned cars of 2012 by the editors at Cars.com.  "The Camry drew huge appeal from car shoppers and scored big among top-selling models," said Kelsey May, industry analyst at Cars.com.

Cars.com sited a number of factors including sales, to determine which redesigns were the most successful.

For full results of Cars.com's 2012 Redesign Index, visit the Cars.com auto…