Toyota’s Camry, Camry Hybrid and Yaris made Forbes’ list of the most improved cars for 2012, based on their ratings from Total Car Score. Already a good car, now the Camry is even better, Forbes editors said, with more fuel-efficient engines and more engaging driving characteristics in the 2012 model. One of the highest-ranked mid-sized sedans, the Camry earned a Total Car Score of 81.64, up 6.84 points. The hybrid version’s Total Car Score was 85.59, up 6.77 points.
The redesigned Yaris is one of the most improved cars for 2012 by virtue of a 6.51-point jump in its Total Car Score to 75.42. Overall, reviewers praised the Yaris' reliability and safety features.
Total Car Score, a new online resource that aggregates car reviews from multiple sources, seeks to simplify the task of researching a car purchase. Total Car Score takes the ratings from nine well-known automotive authorities including Consumer Reports, Edmunds.com, Consumer Guide and J.D. Power & Associates, and converts them into a simple percentage representing what the car could have scored from each source versus what it did score. Then, it averages the number from all of these sources to get a vehicle’s Total Car Score.
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