MAY. 18 1:33 P.M. ET General Motors Corp. and Toyota Motor Co., the world's two largest automakers, had the top vehicles in 15 of 18 categories in a closely watched survey of 2005 models released Wednesday by research firm J.D. Power and Associates. Overall, Toyota had the top vehicles for initial quality in 10 categories, including the Toyota Prius compact car, Toyota Sienna minivan and Lexus sedans in all three luxury car categories. http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialne...d=apn_home_down
Other articles with different data slices Detroit Free Press http://www.freep.com/news/latestnews/pm423...33_20050518.htm Zongo News http://www.zongoo.com/article9040.html
The Prius got top in the "segment award". Not much of a playing field for hybrids. I wonder if the "segment" larger than this? Nevermind. I found it in the official report. It won top IQS for the Compact Car segment. Link is here: http://www.jdpa.com/studies_jdpower/pressr...asp?StudyID=984