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Automotive News & Views What if you were in charge of GM?
874 messages, Last post on Oct 28, 2009 at 10:20 AM
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Feb 23, 2009 4:36 am) Dex-cool ring a bell? At the same time the ratings from JD Powers are indicated there are trivial differences in numbers of problems between the pop foreign brands and quality US brands, JD Power only measures "initial quality," not the number of problems over the lifetime of a vehicle. The best data for that seems to be Consumer Reports (not that it's wonderful but it's better than nothing), which tends to indicate that GM, while having improved recently, still has more problems over the lifetime of the car than a Ford or a Honda, or even Hyundai in some cases.
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Replying to: bpizzuti (Feb 23, 2009 6:03 am) NOT. This is the 3-year study by JDPowers: 3-year study JDP
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Feb 23, 2009 8:14 am) |
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Feb 23, 2009 8:14 am) Resale value IS a big factor. It's something like considering the neighborhood that you buy a house in. In other words, there are factors external to your car (like reputation) that affect the value, and by extension, your total investment. The Lexus and Buick might be closely matched in features and MSRP, and in fact the Buick might be just as good a car in every respect but the Lexus is gonna to kill the Buick on resale, to the tune of many thousands of dollars, not chump change. This is of course a consequence of GM's past work.
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Feb 23, 2009 9:01 am)
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Replying to: lemko (Feb 23, 2009 9:56 am)
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Feb 23, 2009 9:57 am) |
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Replying to: lemko (Feb 23, 2009 10:05 am) You realize that's a bad thing for Buick, right? Means no one is willing to pay that much for it...which means Buick has to discount in order to get people to buy. Which means GM has a harder time making money. If the Buick was that good, they could say "MSRP, take it or leave it" and people would take it. |
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Replying to: bpizzuti (Feb 23, 2009 10:21 am) In other words, with the Buick, the factory suffers first, then the owner, but with Lexus the factory makes out first and the owner second, at resale time. So the only "equal part" might be that both the Buick and Lexus owner get good service from their vehicles. There's a positive for both, should it prove true.
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the Infiniti G37X? Notice I'm talking the AWD model. If I needed a vehicle that might be at the top of the wish-list.
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