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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (237593)4/25/2003 1:26:09 PM
From: benwood  Read Replies (3) of 436258
 
Actually, what I said was 100% correct. Check page 12 of the April 2001 Consumer Reports. Notice that in my complete post:

"Actually, all cars including the Japanese cars have gotten much better over the last two decades. The differences in quality between the US & Japan cars has diminished somewhat over that time period. Consumer Reports sometimes puts that reliability timeline in their auto issue."

I said nothing about the reliability of American versus Japanese, as that type of comment was not in my tiny paragraph -- I didn't write it because everybody on the frickin' planet knows it, for gawd's sake!

On page 12 in the 2001 CU, you can see this chart:

In problems per 100 cars:

1980: Japanese 37, American 107 (difference = 70)
1990: Japanese 18, American 39 (differernce = 21)
2000: Japanese 13, American 23 (difference = 10)

Now do you understand what I was saying? Sheesh! Japanese in 1986 = American in 2000. American cars improved way more than Japanese, but they did so from a very unreliable base -- Japanese are still more reliable, and appear to be about 15 years further along in reliability.

If quality was everything, then crappy beer and store brand ice cream would be history. Those companies just know how to make money with a vastly inferior product -- mostly by charging a lot less for it, which Ford cannot do of course, so yeah, they are in a bind now.
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