Posted on 03/02/2006 6:09:12 AM PST by Graybeard58
Japanese brands?
You mean the Japanese company that designs cars in California, engineers them in Michigan and builds them in Ohio?
Or the American company that builds their cars on a Toyota Camry frame and builds them in Mexico?
Nice car, but the cup holders suck. You can have mine!
That's my problem with them too. Well, and the ashtray. Do you have trouble driving yours with a beer between your legs and smoking a cigarette?
I guess all Consumer Reports subscribers could be tree-hugging leftists too...
What I really don't understand is how the Ford Fusion was the runner-up in the small car class. Since it first went on sale in September of last year (6 months ago) I wonder if they doubled the number of complaints to get a 12 month number.
That new Titan I want will be made right down the road from me in Jackson Mississippi.
We just bought the Honda Odyssey with all the frills, and we LOVE it.
Big 6 cylinder, that automatically goes down to 3 (economy) when you're maintaining a steady speed.
Also, my brother just bought the Toyota Highlander Hybrid, (SUV) and likes it very much. But it's nowhere near as comfortable as my minivan.
Cigarette? Hrumpf. I only smoke Cuban cigars.
PT Cruiser didn't make the list. Made in Mexico.
Mine has 115,000 miles on it. Five speed stick. First year car.
One wheel bearing, two water pumps and a tie rod end are my total repairs. Changed the spark plugs one time.
Pretty good car, all in all. Second water pump must have been defective, only lasted 30,000 miles. Factory Chrysler replacement part.
"They produce good products, at a fair price, in a nefarious plot to sell more cars than Ford and General Motors."
And they do it without overpaid union workers!
How do you think they are going to pull that off? And even if they do, I don't think a third will be enough.
Foreign cars are not only better than American cars, but polls of similar sample groups show that Alf Landon should have been president in 1936, and Al Gore should be president today.
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/aboutus/test.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5168
This is a survey of the READERSHIP of Consumer Reports, I hope I don't disparage anyone on this forum, but that means this is a survey of people who BUY A MAGAZINE to help them evaluate products. I would do that for which I had NO BASIS whatsoever to evaluate for myself, but I believe that as concerns automobiles most people simply don't fall into that category. I am saying that these responders might possibly be people who HAD NO CLUE about automobiles to begin with.
I have purchased asian imports over the years, but recently I've been very successful with domestics of all stripes. The quality the big three is putting out is far better than it use to be. Is it better than the Japanese? I don't know, but I would bet readers of Consumer Reports don't either.
Don't waste your money, if you want an English muscle car, you want a TVR!
http://www.tvr.co.uk/index.php
My family, and my father before me, are CR subscribers.
We're not all tree hugging leftists.
We check out CR before we buy anything.
Family tradition. :)
They paid James A. Guest who is the President about $400,000 last year plus $95,000 in benefits.
I'm not 100% positive but I'm pretty sure that when they mail out Consumers Reports the taxpayer pays part of the postage.
Why is this a "charity"?
It will continue in this fashion until the hippies die off.
And pay the comensurate increase in insurance and maintenance fees. I know who a guy who bought a Porsche in a momement of insanity and sold it 9 mos later to get the Nissan he should have purchased in the first place.
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