Lieutenant Columbo donned his raincoat and hopped into his 1959 Peugeot, hot on the trail of another condescending millionaire murder suspect. The Peugeot always drew stares, not because it was a rare automobile, but because it was an eyesore. It had one redeeming quality; every time he sat behind the wheel and turned the key in the ignition, it would start. Thus, the car scored well on the:

A) mix flexibility scale.
B) changeover flexibility scale.
C) reliability quality scale.
D) delivery reliability scale.