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Originally posted by DeltAlum
The second list has Chrysler, but the first doesn't. It also has Porsche as number 2 and the first one doesn't have it at all. Lots of other differences.
Are the lists about the same thing? I'm confused, too.
Nightly News had the Consumer Reports survey for this year, and the US cars did very poorly.
The guy's comment is that at eight years of age, the average Japanese built car has about as many problems as a two year old American car.
For surveys to be that different, methodology's gotta be different doesn't it?
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Oh sorry. OK the first is selective but they should have the same scores for the cars. Look at the column on the right. JDPower is a great guide.
As for other guides, I read religiously Consumer report and consumer guide for this year. They both gave American cars pretty high scores, but still gave higher scores to manufacturers like Toyota. I definitely didn't see anything in there saying US cars did badly and an 8 yr old Jap car = 2 yr old American. The article with the pic of that list I posted actually talked about how well American cars did in consumer report also. I don't think the surveys are very much different.
It really is amazing how much they've improved in quality control. I think it's mainly from the globalization of ideas and processes.
-Rudey