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Sedans Chevrolet Malibu Chevrolet Malibu vs. Toyota Camry vs. Honda Accord
652 messages, Last post on Dec 04, 2009 at 9:01 PM
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Plunging customer satisfaction with Toyota is frightening. The ratings are lowest with Edmunds, but the Yahoo ratings are really awful. 2.5 stars for the Camry (out of five) for the last two years is about as bad as it gets with lots of angry buyers. Even my Optima does 4.5. At least GM's troubles were a gradual decline during the seventies and eighties and not this plunge off the cliff. I'd be scared if I was a buyer.
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Replying to: csandste (Nov 22, 2007 5:30 pm) |
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Replying to: elroy5 (Nov 22, 2007 6:03 pm) Domestics seem to have an opposite tack- they will complain about every problem because of their prior perception of poor domestic quality.
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Replying to: unkownuser (Nov 24, 2007 4:14 am) Why would I buy a car, if I think it has poor quality. Then complain when it turns out to be true? Also, when it comes to personal reviews, it depends on what the expectations are. Say one buyer has been driving around in an old junker for the past 10 years, and another buyer's previous car was a high-end luxury car. A new Accord may seem like heaven on earth to the first guy, while to the second guy it may seem like a step down. While a professional reviewer is comparing the car to it's competition, a personal reviewer is often comparing the car only to his/her previous car. |
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Replying to: unkownuser (Nov 24, 2007 4:14 am) I don't care how trouble free the previous Malibu may have been as it was it was far from perfection in how it was designed and executed. I would be miserable driving that car day in and day out. I can't comment on the just launched Malibu.
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Replying to: venus537 (Nov 24, 2007 1:45 pm) |
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When one of your hondas or toyotas can take what our 1991 Chevy took, then I just MIGHT consider one. 1. 120k of heavy duty police work 2. 250k of taxi abuse 3. and then me trying to kill it a. going up curbs at 35+ mph b. running 1 gallon of water to 10 gallons of gas c. taking out poles and leveling gravel with it d. throwing it into reverse at highway speeds e. jumping it to the point that it was sparking out of the bottom f. ignoring oil changes g. taking the car "rallying" h. taking of spark plug wires for a week at a time i. jumping on the hood, trunk & roof j. and more In 390k+ miles the car never had the engine, transmission or any other major component replaced. The car NEVER "broke" down. The car didn't even have dents where I jumped on it. Why would I put such abuse on a car? To prove that GM does make the best out there. Yes they have made some junk in the past, just like honda, toyota and any other maker. But at the end of the day, when you want a car to last, GM makes them. Check out http://www.chevy200k.com/gallery/ for more proof. There are GM cars out there with the same quality built in their trucks.
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Replying to: dsuupr (Dec 03, 2007 10:25 am) In the Civic message boards, a Craigslist ad had a Civic for sale with 1.1 million miles on it. Little more than clutch replacement, brakes, etc... How about we get back on topic; Camry, Accord, and Malibu?
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Replying to: thegraduate (Dec 03, 2007 11:01 am) The second sentence almost had me spill the coffee. That was funny.
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Replying to: robertsmx (Dec 03, 2007 1:00 pm) My granddad sold his '87 Civic Wagon in '02. He had 255k miles on it, original automatic transmission and all. No power steering, crank windows, manual locks, and a 12 Valve 1.5L. He got $1,000 for it; his asking price in the newspaper. Despite the excellent service he got from his wagon, he replaced it with a Frontier pickup because it fit his needs better (and it was a STEAL - a newspaper special at a local Chevrolet dealer). The truth is that we won't truly know how bulletproof the vehicles like the new Malibu, Accord, or Camry are until a large group of people carries them to 200k miles (or attempts to do so, anyway). |
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