American Cars Gaining Ground

[Zephyrefi]

The New York Times ran an article on a new JD Power study on quality by brand over three years. It measured the number of problems reported per 100 vehicles. Here are some highlights:

-The top 5 are as follows: Lexus, Infiniti, BUICK, Acura and Toyota.

-Cadillac and LINCOLN finished above the vaunted Honda. and Mercury was right behind, beating Jaguar, Saab Subaru, Nissan and BMW!

-FORD still finished below industry average, but it did beat Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Volvo, Mitsubishi, and WAY down the list is... you guessed it... VOLKSWAGEN!! registering a whopping 100 more problems per 100 vehicles than Ford.

-And the bottom of the barrel was, of course, Kia with over FIVE HUNDRED problems per 100 vehicles.

I don't know about you, but this makes my day. There's hope for the future, ladies and gentlemen.

[zeus]

haha, Kia sucks.

same for Hyundai and Daewoo.

[Zephyrefi]

Korean average is 250 problems below industry average. :hah:

[SVT5LITER]

Re: American Cars Gaining Ground

Originally posted by 2003Mach1

-And the bottom of the barrel was, of course, Kia with over FIVE HUNDRED problems per 100 vehicles.

yeeeowza!

[Sweet35th]

FORD still finished below industry average

This will probably alwasy be. If comercial use vehicles were taken out of the picture I believe the #s would go up substancialy for ford.

THe problem is that over 1/2 of fords sales are trucks. And well over 1/2 of all work/comercial trucks are fords. These vehicle have a higher repair rate because they are worked far harder than a Sable.

This is clear by seeing where Mercury is in the pack, Which for the most part is all rebadged ford products.

[Zephyrefi]

Originally posted by Sweet35th
This will probably alwasy be. If comercial use vehicles were taken out of the picture I believe the #s would go up substancialy for ford.

THe problem is that over 1/2 of fords sales are trucks. And well over 1/2 of all work/comercial trucks are fords. These vehicle have a higher repair rate because they are worked far harder than a Sable.

This is clear by seeing where Mercury is in the pack, Which for the most part is all rebadged ford products.

interesting point. and that just makes it all the more sad about the brands that finished below Ford which also included Dodge and Jeep.

[Roast'em]

gonna buy me a mercury and cruise it up and down the road.