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15. J.D. Power

Reply to Bozita (Original post)

Thu Feb 16, 2012, 01:32 AM

Feb 2012

is not accurate and uses outdated information that is easily manipulated. That said, American car manufacturers have indeed come a looooong way. But most of their quality improvements are from Europe (Ford Focus) or Asia (Chevy Cruze). Chrysler is still crap.

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Ford, GM lead industry to best-ever showing in vehicle reliability -- J.D. Power study [View all] Bozita Feb 2012 OP

Three cheers for Detroit Auggie Feb 2012 #1

My 95 Ford still runs perfectly well. closeupready Feb 2012 #2

JD Power says the only 5 star brand in overall quality is Lexus. Honeycombe8 Feb 2012 #3

CR uses "data" from their subscriber list, so it is not "scientific" Kolesar Feb 2012 #5

Actually, no. It gathers data for AUTOS from a variety of sources, INCL. the most important.... Honeycombe8 Feb 2012 #6

"Faith" Kolesar Feb 2012 #7

Exactly. CR is full of shit Populist_Prole Feb 2012 #11

European cars typically DON'T do well in CR's user reliability survey NoGOPZone Feb 2012 #13

JD Power's isn't scientific either NoGOPZone Feb 2012 #14

The EPA goes by INTERIOR volume NOT the length of a car happyslug Feb 2012 #10

Technically, GM did go into "managed" bankruptcy Kolesar Feb 2012 #4

+1 Thanks for posting. eom Purveyor Feb 2012 #8

Now if they could only enable jobs for Americans to buy these cars... lib2DaBone Feb 2012 #9

I wonder what GMC is doing to be ranked high density Feb 2012 #12

J.D. Power GETPLANING Feb 2012 #15