(ALG: Santa Barbara, CA) -- ALG Inc., a subsidiary of DealerTrack Holdings Inc. and the industry benchmark for residual values and depreciation data, recently announced that Toyota suffered a sharp drop from first to sixth place among mainstream brands in ALG’s Spring 2010 Automotive Consumer Attitudes Survey, leaving Honda with a commanding lead over all other mainstream brands.

Toyota’s perceived quality score (PQS) of 67.6 was down a remarkable 20 percent from 84.0 in the ALG Fall PQS 2009 survey. Honda’s score of 83.2 was down 1 percent, but 12.6 percentage points above runner-up Nissan’s score of 70.6, which was up 3 percent from last fall. Rounding out the top five mainstream brands were Ford trucks (up 5%), Subaru (up 4%), and Volkswagen (down 1%).

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