Top seven places in Consumer Reports magazine goes to Toyota’s Lexus. The Japanese car giant’s Lexus held the top seven spots as the best buy car in the US. The Japanese car was given the most points on a system based on scores received by all eight of its models, these are the vehicles the magazine recommends that consumers in the US should buy.

The Honda Motor Co took fourth spot with its Acura along with Toyota’s parent-company. In third place the Mazda Motor Corp’s Mazda held its own in the rankings. In second place the Subaru, which is a unit of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd had dropped down from the top spot it held last year.

Consumer Reports evaluates and tests the cars which includes how the vehicles drive, the quality of interior-finish, reliability and all important fuel economy. These rankings do influence car buyers when they are published in the annual auto issue of the magazine.

Japanese makes of car, when all combined, accounted for 36.9% of all cars sold in the US during the course of last year – the figures were published by Autodata Corp which is a research company based in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey.

General Motors Co. held the 14^th ranking, being the top US brand for the last year. The vehicle was rated as “above-average” when it came to reliability and was considered to be a genuine rival for its German counterparts.