American Models Top List of This Year’s Worst Cars

Consumer Reports has named its worst cars of 2016, warning buyers not to be lured in by "significant incentives" or "generous negotiating room."

Advertising Disclosure: When you buy something by clicking links on our site, we may earn a small commission, but it never affects the products or services we recommend.

Consumer Reports has named its “10 Bottom Picks for 2016” — and most of them are American cars.

Each vehicle on this list earned the lowest overall score in its respective category, such as “subcompact” or “minivan.”

The nonprofit Consumer Reports notes that buyers should also beware these models because they’re likely to come with “significant incentives” or “generous negotiating room”:

As the maxim goes, great deals are rarely found on great cars. In these cases, falling for a smooth sales pitch and a swell cash-back offer could lead you to suffering years of buyer’s remorse.

For much better choices, check out the 10 vehicles that Consumer Reports named the best for 2016.

The worst of the worst is Chrysler Fiat’s Fiat 500L, a compact that earned an overall score of 31 of out 100.

Consumer Reports’ overall scores reflect several key aspects of a vehicle:

Road-test score
Reliability
Owner satisfaction
Safety (including government and insurance industry crash-test results)

Poor reliability and low owner satisfaction, for example, helped doom the Fiat 500L.

The compact has the worst reliability of any new car in Consumer Reports’ recent survey of more than 740,000 vehicles. It also has below-average owner satisfaction — “meaning a strong percentage of owners wish they hadn’t bought this hatchback,” as Consumer Reports puts it.

In a statement to CNBC in response to Consumer Reports’ ratings, Fiat Chrysler said the company “continue[s] to aggressively pursue both product and launch-quality improvements as they are top priorities for the company and our internal measurements are showing progress.”

The complete “10 Bottom Picks for 2016” are: