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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (90296)	3/15/2001 1:35:52 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 132070

To All, Consumer Report's auto reliability issue, surveying 2.5 million owners, will be out next week. The improvements since 1980 are wild, from 88 problems over 5 years to 22. The top seven names in reliability are all Japanese. But the mag gives special credit to Ford for getting its act together on pickups and they went from the worst to second only to Toyota in reliability. Funny this morning. When CNBS reported that American cars had twice as many problems as Japanese, Cramer said that the report was biased. There is a little bias. When GM/Toyota first started making the Prizm and Corollas in my old home town of Fremont, CA., Prizm owners reported more problems than Corolla owners. Both were still rated top notch, but there was a difference rated. At that time, the two cars were exactly the same except for branding. They are slightly different now.