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Replying to: xrunner2 (Jan 03, 2008 8:18 am) J. D. Powers does a random survey of some reasonable percentage of the 10,000 or so copies of said vehicle to determine the number of breakdowns that the owners have had. Using the responses J. D. Powers ranks vehicles from good to bad. Consumer Reports (for a very long time - longer than J. D. Powers) does not do a random survey of owners, but does get as much information from their subscribers as possible on the vehicles they happen to own. If all of CR's subscribers submit information (probably not the case), then CR should have an unbiased random selection of each manufacturers vehicles to evaluate. However, as I suspect is the case, only some of CR's subscribers bother to report, and probably the ones who do have a problem to report, while the trouble free vehicles are under reported. The basic question that I have about CR's surveys is what percentage of the subscribers actually report year in and year out. If more than 90% do, then they probably have a fairly good data set. |
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Replying to: 62vetteefp (Jan 03, 2008 9:12 am) No reason to scream bloody hell just because somebody happens to like different things (and they say upfront what they like). You can always open your own "We like soft suspensions and flat seats" magazine. Judging by amount of emotion expressed here at those who beg to disagree, it should sell in big volumes ... 
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Replying to: sls002 (Jan 03, 2008 9:16 am)
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Replying to: xrunner2 (Jan 03, 2008 8:18 am) Wrong. I believe Automobile or R&T made upper-midsize luxury with V6 test last year (A6, 530, E320, CTS, V80, S-type, and couple of others) and CTS was rated higest, mostly due to value. I remember being very surprised seing that. |
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Replying to: dino001 (Jan 03, 2008 9:49 am) I think the essence of what J. D. Power's does is found here: LongTermReliabilityfor2004 The rankings show that GM has two makes above average, while Pontiac, GMC and Chevy are below average, but close to average. Saturn is significantly below average. Buick is very good and Cadillac is well above average. This does not mean that any car that you might buy won't be much worse than average though. |
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Replying to: dino001 (Jan 03, 2008 7:40 am) As far as Toyota, with all the news on their quality and recalls, CR did not have much choice but to stop giving them passes. I completely agree.....So somebody had to fill the void so the more reliable better built domestics naturally filled the hole where a Toyota, once automatically was placed. Is that a conspiracy theory dino001 ?  -Rocky |
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Replying to: rockylee (Jan 03, 2008 9:57 am)  There are so many other choices. Even if their conspiracy to taut Toyota fell apart, they still could choose tons of imports before admitting something domestic being most reliable and recommended. I mean - if there is a real vast anti-domestic conspiracy (is it right wing or left wing?), as you would like us to believe. Or - is it just anti-GM? Wow - what did GM do to all these milions people who dare to refuse to buy their most wondeful product? Or lets narrow it - what did they do to media and CR that Ford gets a pass now and they still can't? I just can't stop wondering... Oh - I have an idea! Perhaps their product is not so great, after all. No - that is impossible. GM has always performed to best of its ability, both in design and manufacturing (with huge help of UAW, of course). And we know their best is the worlds best. It's in the Constitution. So it must be something else... |
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Replying to: sls002 (Jan 03, 2008 9:16 am) So for "under-reporting", then Hondas and Lexi are probably actually better than CR indicates. Maybe these cars should have a higher, more magnificent color schemes than red circles.
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Replying to: xrunner2 (Jan 03, 2008 10:16 am) |
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Replying to: rockylee (Jan 03, 2008 9:57 am) The simple fact is that, for years, Toyota and Honda have garnered the top slots in Consumer Report' reliability surveys. They earned this distinction by consistently producing reliable vehicles across the board. From the magazine's standpoint, it made sense to give their new or dramatically redesigned models a "pass" when it came to predicting reliability. This is not proof of a bias or bribery. If it has snowed on Christmas Day in Pennsylvania for the past 20 years, it is not much of a stretch to say, "We will have a white Christmas in Pennsylvania this year, too." That is not evidence of bias or a conspiracy with the manufacturers of snow blowers and sleds. If it DOESN'T snow on Christmas, that proves the folly of using the past to predict the future. Realistically, the magazine should never have given new Toyotas this "pass" in the first place. (It shouldn't do this for Honda, either.) No model should receive a reliability rating until it has been in the hands of customers, whether it comes from Honda, BMW, GM or VW. As for the "more reliable, better built domestics naturally filling the hole where a Toyota was once automatically placed" - which ones would that be? Even with Toyota's recent reliability snafus, it still ranks third among all manufacturers in the reliability survey, behind Honda and Subaru. Ford, not GM or Chrysler, is the one that has shown steady, consistent improvements, and the Ford Fusion, Mercury Milan and Lincoln MKZ have earned top-notch reliability ratings. GM's rankings still aren't all that spectacular. |
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